(Andrei Cioroianu) JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a very useful standard framework (JSR-127) for Java developers because it defines an API and a basic set of tags for building Web-based user interfaces. Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Faces, based on the JSF framework, adds many new UI com
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ADO.NET and SQL Server 2005 (Sample Chapter)
(Alex Homer, Dave Sussman, and Mark Fussell) ADO.NET and SQL SERVER, in previous incarnations, generally enjoyed separate design and development routes. But ADO.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 (formerly code-named “Yukon”) share a great deal of functionality and complementary technologies. As these
WSIL roadblocks
(Andrew J. Bradfield and Qun Zhou) Gain solutions to some common roadblocks that you might encounter when using Web Services Inspection Language (WSIL) documents that have n-level Web services references. The authors identify the situations where WSIL documents become cumbersome and show you some so
XML Namespaces Don’t Need URIs
(Michael Day) The decision to identify XML namespaces with URIs was an architectural mistake that has caused much suffering for XML users and needless complexity for XML tools. Removing namespace URIs altogether and simply using namespace prefixes to identify namespaces would make it easier for peop
Bulkload and XSD schema constructs
(Chandra) I have seen quite a few newsgroup posts about SQLXML Bulkload where the users think the schema and the data file that they use are correct, but nothing gets bulkloaded and neither do they get an error.
MySQL Optimization, part 1 (Sample Chapter)
While optimization is possible with limited knowledge of your system or application, the more you know about your system, the better your optimization will be. This article, the first of two parts, covers some of the different points you will need to know for optimizing MySQL.
Aspect Orienting .NET Components
(Viji Sarathy) There has been a lot of talk about Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and how this new programming paradigm is going to revolutionize the way we develop software much like how Object Oriented Programming (OOP) did about 15 years ago. The AOP model allows a developer to implement in
Integrating DB2 Universal Database for iSeries with Microsoft ADO .NET
(Hernando Bedoya, Carlos Carminati, Lorie DuBois, Jarek Miszczyk and Ajit Mungale) Customers have been using the IBM DB2 UDB for iSeries for many years with data access technologies such as ODBC and OLE DB. The newest data access technology from Microsoft is called ADO.NET. Applications that use
Developers: No Longer the Hackers’ Allies
(Roger Thornton) No one who works in IT today can escape the carnage wreaked by hackers. Worms and other exploits are increasingly designed to target specific vulnerabilities in software ranging from operating systems to business applications—and for that reason, attention is increasingly focused on
Using a Custom Base Class for your ASP.NET Page’s Code-Behind Classes
(Scott Mitchell) One of the many benefits of object-oriented programming is that it allows for reuse of logic. For example, classes can be created that contain a base level of functionality. These base classes can then be extended through inheritance to create new classes that encompass the function