(Robert Westervelt) SAP is progressing with its plan to services-enable its entire business suite by 2007 and has made partnerships around its strategy, outpacing rival Oracle Corp. in an increasingly competitive applications software market, according to a report by Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester
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The Return of AJAX?
(Jim Wagner) Some relatively new Google applications have prompted renewed interest in a programming technique that is years old.
Using ADO.NET, XML & XSL to generate HTML – Introduction
(Bill Burris) If your website has several pages with a similar layout it can become a pain to update using an HTML editor. What is needed is a way to automate the page generation from database tables, XML, & XSL files. By separating content and page layout for you website it is much easier to update
MSSQL Server Reporting Services: Mastering OLAP Reporting: Extending Conditional Formatting: SWITCH and Drilldown Defaults
(William Pearson) In an earlier article, Black Belt Components: Ad Hoc Conditional Formatting for OLAP Reports, as well as within other articles of the Reporting Services series, we have discussed conditional formatting in general, and have set out to examine approaches to meeting specific business
Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft.NET Solution Architectures, Part V…
(Chris Sully) The aim of this series of articles is to provide an overview of issues surrounding the architecture of .NET Solutions. In doing so it is following Microsoft’s recommended approach and, in particular, looking at the requirements of the related Microsoft certification exam (70-300), whic
Porting Visual C++ Code to Visual Studio 2005
(Danny Kalev) Four months ago, Microsoft publicized a list of features that could cause existing Visual C++ apps to break when migrated to Visual Studio 2005. Many of these features are core C++ updates that are meant to bring Visual C++ to full compliance with ISO C++. There’s no doubt that the
DB2 UDB performance tuning scenarios, Part 1: DB2 UDB OLTP tuning illustrated with a Java program
(Xiaomei Wang, Wini Mark, Ken Lau and Raul F. Chong) This article explains step-by-step techniques that can be followed to monitor and tune an IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) database server. Using the supplied sample Java program “PERFORMER,” you can learn these hands-on techniques, and experi
Dependency Injection
(Griffin Caprio) Today there is a greater focus than ever on reusing existing components and wiring together disparate components to form a cohesive architecture. But this wiring can quickly become a daunting task because as application size and complexity increase, so do dependencies. One way t
This week in open source
(Steven Musil) The LinuxWorld conference is proving to be more than just a meeting of Linux fans and sellers. It’s now a venue for all sorts of open-source advocates.
Processing XML with Java: Reading XML (Sample Chapter)
(Elliotte Rusty Harold) Writing XML documents is very straightforward, as I hope Chapters 3 and 4 proved. Reading XML documents is not nearly as simple. Fortunately, you don’t have to do all the work yourself; you can use an XML parser to read the document for you. The XML parser exposes the con