(Robert Cozzi, Jr.) IBM continued its commitment to RPG IV by announcing support for native RPG IV-based XML support. Although you must upgrade to V5R4 of i5/OS, I consider this the first compelling enhancement to RPG IV since qualified data structures and data structures as arrays were introduced b
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Architectural manifesto: The Factory design pattern in MIDP 2.0
(Mikko Kontio) Mobile developers routinely use the Generic Connection Framework to create and maintain smooth connections in Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP). Good architects know that the real muscle behind the Framework is the indispensable Factory design pattern. The Factory design pa
‘LAMP’ start-up warms to free DB2
(Martin LaMonica) Start-up ActiveGrid has released an update to its toolset for building business applications with open-source software, adding support for IBM’s newly introduced free DB2 database.
Advanced Authentication in IBM WebSphere Application Server
(Keys Botzum, Bill Hines, Paul Ilechko and Messaoud Benantar) The advanced authentication features in IBM WebSphere Application Server V6 support a more flexible authentication model with a new highly customizable authentication framework that’s based on – and extends – Java Authentication and Autho
Administering and Managing Users
This tutorial explains the ways and steps of creating and managing database accounts, Creating Users through Sql Plus, Creating User through iSQL*PLUS, Creating Users through EM, Manager Users, Managing Users through sqlplus and Managing Users through EM.
Foreign Keys and Referential Integrity
(Ian Barwick) Foreign keys are an essential part of any relational database. In MySQL’s foreign key support has been added on through the InnoDB extension and is continually being improved. However some aspects of the foreign key implementation, especially in combination with other areas of function
Craft A Rich UI For Your .NET App With Enhanced Windows Forms Support
(Chris Sells and Michael Weinhardt) Windows Forms 2.0 is far richer than any Windows application development platform that preceded it. You’ll find improvements across the board, with a more dense and fully featured Microsoft .NET Framework, tighter Visual Studio integration with many new additional
Capturing Browser Information Using the Profile
(Brian Mains) With ASP.NET 2.0, the Profile component can be an important tool in capturing browser information for accessing your web sites, though the functionality is not directly available. However, using the profile option can catalog the information, then display it in an administrative page,
Simplify WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Enterprise Search
(Paul Hill and Chris Chilcott) Relational database management systems (RDBMS) are good at storing and retrieving structured data. SQL provides mature mechanisms for defining and executing a search on structured data but performs poorly on data that is not strongly typed or is not easily indexed (for
Xml Performance Showdown
(Jeswin P.) XML Mark is an XML parsing benchmark originally created by Sun Microsystems to test the performance of Java against .Net Framework 1.1.