(Clint Boulton) The World Wide Web consortium (W3C) had a landmark day for XML development, recommending XSLT 2.0 and XML XQuery 1.0 as standards for transforming and querying XML
Other News
Virtualize Your Oracle Database with Web Services
(Kuassi Mensah) As I described in a previous article published in Web Services Journal, Web services provide easy access to remote content and application functionality using industry-standard mechanisms, without any dependency on the provider’s platform, the location, the service implementation, or
Type Design Guidelines in .NET
(Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams) From the CLR perspective, there are only two categories of types—reference types and value types—but for the purpose of framework design discussion we divide types into more logical groups, each with its own specific design rules. Figure 4-1 shows these logical gr
Optimize the user interface of DB2 CommonStore for Lotus Domino
(Reinhold Engelbrecht) This article explains a sample DB2 CommonStore for Lotus Domino (CSLD) customization of a R6.5 mail template when accessing it from the Notes Client. This article focuses minimizing the necessary user intervention for retrieval (retrieve on open) for the typical office user wh
XML Strengths & Weakness’ with DOM, ASP & XSL – Introduction
(Nakul Goyal) This article explains in a very simple manner how you can use XML in ASP and VB. Since the inception of XML people many developers have wondered why we need XML… How is it better than HTML? For starters, XML is far more powerful than HTML, and that power resides in the “X” in XML (wh
Delphi and VB Developers, You Too Can Build Java GUIs
(Mario Castillo) Two years ago, the Swiss business software maker Abacus Research AG decided to port its complete product line from Borland’s Delphi to Java/Swing. The Abacus Delphi development team faced the unenviable task of rewriting hundreds of GUI applications in Swing without the aid of tools
Using Visual Studio .NET Wizards to Create an N-Tiered Application – Part 1
(David Catherman) Microsoft is known for providing good tools for Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools for developers. MS Access, Visual Studio 6, Visual Interdev and others have provided an environment to visually combine controls, properties, and generated code for quick applications. Visual
Controlling Transactions and Locks Part 4 : SQL 2005 Snapshot
(Don Schlichting) This is the forth article in the transaction and lock series. Up to now, the locks and hints discussed have applied to both SQL 2000 and SQL 20005. However, this article will introduce Snapshots, new in Microsoft SQL 2005.
Oracle Database Interaction Using ODP.NET and ASP.NET: Accessing Stored Procedures, Functions
(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article is an extension to my previous article (Accessing P/SQL Stored Procedures). It mainly concentrates on the parameter directions of a PL/SQL stored procedure. It also deals with stored functions and packages.
Packages on DB2 UDB
The concept of “packages” in the DB2 Universal Database (UDB) system is often not well understood. This paper provides both general information about what packages are and how they are created and bound, as well as specific information about both the DataDirect Connect for ODBC (32-bit) and DataDire