(Zoran Horvat) It is a common requirement in XML Web services design to implement means for sending binary data back and forth between the client and the server. What often comes as an additional burden is very high upper limit in allowed data volume.
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Treating Complex User Interface (UI) Widgets Like Finite State Machines
(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I looked at treating user interface (UI) widgets like Finite State Machines. In a simple widget, this is rather straightforward as the state of the widget easily defines the morphology of the user interface.
Use jQuery.extend() and Ajax to ‘construct’ your JavaScript Objects from Server Objects
(Billy S Davis) So you start playing around with jQuery and Ajax and you discover that it is pretty cool stuff. Soon you discover that by using AJAX and web methods, you can send a .NET object to the client and it will automatically decode into a nice JavaScript object for you.
Validate your DB2 installation using db2val
(Prashant Naik, Shivraj Kumar Sarsambi and Kayalvizhi Ganesan) You can use the db2val copy validation tool for IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows to validate installed files at the database level, the instance level, or the system level.
Create SQL Server temporary tables with the correct collation
(Tal Olier) When we write code, we sometimes use temporary tables. Using a temporary table is a convenient way to store intermediate results, and then use them at a later phase in our application logic.
Tuning Unit Tests
$$SWYNK$$ Tuning Unit Tests I hate fads. Fads, to me, are software, organization structures, or practices that are done because everyone else is doing it, without understanding the principles behind then, or if they are applicable to your specific situation. For example, SAP was a fad. It seems that every large company had to have SAP, regardless of how good […]
SelecTViews – Interview with Rob Schafer, Consultant for RevGen Partners
Video Programming for IT Professionals
Unit Test Methodologies
Unit Test Methodologies In the last couple of newsletters I have been talking about Unit Testing. Unit Testing is a technique used by software develoeprs to test the code they are writing to solve a software requirement. The tests are written to exercise the code modules directly, not through an external interface. Today I wanted to gloss over three general […]
Enabling XA Transactions in SQL Server 2008 for ADEP Interactive Statements
(Jayan Kandathil) The Adobe Customer Experience solution “Correspondence Management” (formerly Interactive Statements Solution Accelerator) requires an XA-type JDBC data source.
XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, and XQuery 1.0 in Five Minutes with the XML Feature Pack
This demo shows how to use the XML Thin Client of the WebSphere Application Server (WAS) XML Feature Pack.