Unstructured information management (UIM) applications are software systems that analyze unstructured information (text, audio, video, images, and so on) to discover, organize, and deliver relevant knowledge to the user. In analyzing unstructured information, UIM applications make use of a variety o
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Fast, Scalable, and Secure Session State Management for Your Web Applications
(Michael Volodarsky) Due to the stateless nature of the HTTP protocol, Web applications have always shouldered the burden of user state management. Fortunately, ASP.NET provides a number of ways to maintain user state, the most powerful of which is session state. This feature provides a convenie
PRB: Run-time Error Message 3024 Using SQL and DAO Against Oracle
If you try to run Structured Query Language (SQL) against an Oracle database through Data Access Objects (DAO), you can encounter the following error: Run-Time Error 3024 Couldn’t find file C:Program FilesDevStudioVB.mdb.
Building XML-Enabled JavaServer Faces Applications
(Yuli Vasiliev) JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology is a new server-side user interface (UI) component framework that is quickly becoming the standard Web-application framework for J2EE applications. The big advantage of JSF technology is that it enables Web developers to apply the Model-View-Controll
Open Source Article Index
This is a list of articles covering a wide range of topics important to open source development and management.
Preserving Unicode data integrity
(Serdar Yegulalp) Unicode is one of the most broadly-accepted standards for storing data using a mixture of international character sets. It has been available in SQL Server since version SQL Server 7.0. However, if you are not careful in managing how data is sent to SQL Server, mixing Unicode’s mul
Introduction to WebSphere MQ
(Joel Klebanoff) Heterogeneity is a hallmark of today’s information systems in all but the smallest of enterprises. Business, non-profit, and government organizations typically run several disparate applications that were developed in-house and/or bought from a variety of vendors. Each applicati
Web services tip: Representations of null in XML Schema
(Russell Butek) A Java bean has properties, or fields. These fields, unless they are primitive types, can be null. When you map a Java bean to XML, these fields become elements or attributes. Unadorned elements and attributes cannot have null values (you can sort of think of them as the equivalent o
Features of Yukon (SQL Server 2005)
(Vidya Vrat) This article provides an overview of new feature support built into Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Just for a quick byte, SQL Server 2005’s most exciting feature is .NET Framework integration, which will be detailed in later section of this article. For some features, this article assumes t
IBM, Hyperion, and SPSS Part Ways on DB2 OLAP Server
(Alex Woodie) IBM last week formally announced the end of marketing and support for the OS/400, Windows, and Unix versions of DB2 OLAP Server, a collection of business intelligence products it resold through OEM agreements it had in place with Hyperion and SPSS. While IBM is separating itself fr