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(John Topley) In Part 1 of this series, we learnt why using Ant to do builds is a good idea, and were introduced to the core Ant concepts of the project, targets and tasks. We also wrote and executed a simple build file. Now, let’s take a look at some of the other ways that Ant can make our live
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(Paul Krill) Jim Rumbaugh is an IBM Distinguished Engineer who currently leads software modeling efforts at IBM Rational. Along with Grady Booch and Ivar Jacobson, he was part of the “Three Amigos,” a trio responsible for developing Unified Modeling Language, which was adopted by the Object Manageme
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(Susan Lawson and Dan Luksetich) In today’s environments we are bombarded with dynamic SQL, via popular products such as IBM WebSphere, in order to achieve the flexibility and responsiveness required by our high availability Internet applications. While this is great for our twotiered client server