(Vance McCarthy) As J2EE to .NET interoperability continues to become a higher priority for IT execs, a growing number of services firms are gaining first-hand experience in such projects.
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Populating a DropDownList using AJAX and ASP.NET
(Ramaprasad Potturi and Sanjay Patnaik) AJAX is the latest buzzword in the web development industry. But what is it, and how can you use it? This article explains the technology and provides a real-world example of a web page that presents a country and state pair of drop-down lists, where the state
Filling in the LAST Leading Value
(Robert Ware) This script finds objects in a schema based on a text string/name.
Parser Schemas – easy and powerful parsing of xml-based languages
(Tomas Deml) This article focuses on parsing of custom xml-based languages using a user-defined schema.
Database Interaction with PL/SQL, Named Notations, Storing Procedures and Functions
(Jagadish Chatarji) This is part 16 of a series of articles focusing on database interactions with Oracle PL/SQL. In my previous article, we worked with PL/SQL TABLE types in between sub-programs. In this article, we will look into Named Notation, default values of parameters, stored procedures, sto
Using the snapshot monitor and monitoring via SQL
(Chris Eaton) So I’ve talked about what monitoring is in DB2 and how to turn on switches (and their potential impact), now let’s look at how to get monitor data out of DB2. There are three ways to access snapshot information in DB2. The first way is for those folks that write monitoring tools. For t
Debugging in Visual Studio.NET 2005
(Armirthalingam Prasanna) Debugging is an important process for any level of programming to ensure programs function as expected. Most productive developer environments provide tools and utilities to assist with the debugging process. Visual Studio.NET 2005 is equipped with a number of debugger visu
Using XML in Java Gets Easier with DOM4J
(Raghu Donepudi) If you have worked with XML in Java applications during the past few years, you know the pain of parsing and extracting XML data inside the application. The process required writing lots of cumbersome code to retrieve each element from JAXB objects. More importantly, how the applica
Application Brief: Using Titan for MS SQL
(Vicky Chau) Businesses rely heavily on databases for day-to-day transactions and for business decision systems. In today’s information age, databases form the critical core of enterprise business processing & information systems. (pdf)
DTDs – Attributes, Entities and Validations
(Ramdas S) If you ignore standard declarations that describe a document, and some of the syntax, a DTD is just like an XML document. In fact it is an XML document, without a .xml extension. Hence, most of the acceptable notations, such as comments, in an XML document are applicable to DTDs also.