(Alan Radding) The action in Web services and service-oriented architectures has focused so far on transaction systems and production applications, in effect using Web services to call or invoke all or parts of these systems. A few organizations, however, are exploring how to apply the concept of se
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A native C++ implementation of .NET delegate pattern
(Christos Malliopoulos) In this article we present an implementation of the delegate pattern using C++ templates. In the accompanying demonstration project we provide a simplistic emulation of an event source object – that we call Button – firing a Click event, together with an object we call Bu
IBM Integrates Alphablox Analytics Into Data Warehousing Product
(Barbara Darrow) IBM is integrating analytics technology that it acquired last summer into its data warehousing lineup.
Managing an XML Data Model in Your SOA – Best Practices
(Jim Gabriel) The promise of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is that it will enable greater inter-application and inter-enterprise processing by enabling us to integrate applications with a hitherto unseen level of flexibility. This article argues that if the technology underpinning any part of
Use the WebRowSet implementation with DB2 UDB
(Kulvir Singh Bhogal) The WebRowSet interface is a product of JSR-114, the efforts of which brought us the offering of the JDBC Rowset in Java 1.5. RowSet objects allow for disconnected interaction with a backend database. This article sheds light on the WebRowSet, which extends from the javax.s
Directory Trees to Document Trees
(John E. Simpson) XML.com readers know well that XML shines as a transport medium between applications. Less obvious is that XML can serve as a good platform for getting data into and out of a single application. Whether for simple backup/archival purposes or for porting between program versions, ha
Perls of Wisdom
(Michael Hoy & Grant Hutchison) Perl is a powerful and easy-to-use programming language available for many operating systems. And it’s free. You can download the language (as source code or binary form) and use it without paying a license fee.
SAP Extends Plan to Lure Oracle Customers
SAP AG, Europe’s biggest software maker, widened the reach of its plan to take away customers from rival Oracle Corp. by extending it to 6,500 Oracle customers who are not currently SAP users.
SQL Server Locks – Introduction
(Michael Balloni) Relational databases like Microsoft’s SQL Server use locks to prevent multiple users from making conflicting modifications to a set of data: when a set of data is locked by a user, no other users can modify that same set of data until the first user finishes modifying the data and
Introducing Microsoft Reporting Services
(Teo Lachev) Regardless of the alphabet soup of terms and acronyms that are popping up like daisies almost every day and that have probably become a part of your IT vocabulary—terms such as BI (business intelligence), OLAP (online analytical processing), data mining, DSSs (decision support systems),