(Bipin Joshi) Many days back I wrote an articled titled N-Tier Applications and .NET with an explanation of basic concepts involved in developing N-Tier application. I received feedback from many many readers that they liked the article and requested a sample application illustrating the concepts di
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Using curl to Query Remote Servers
curl is the client URL function library. PHP supports it through libcurl. To enable support for libcurl when installing PHP add “with-curl=[location of curl libraries]" to the configure statement before compiling. The curl package must be installed prior to installing PHP. Most major functions d
Introduction to Logical Datacenter Designer, Part 1
(Mickey Williams) See how this Team Architect Edition designer can help you model all operational aspects of your datacenter, making it easier to build and deploy.
Design Better Software with the Inversion of Control Pattern
(Mani Malarvannan) The Inversion of Control (IoC) pattern, also known as Dependency Injection, has recently become popular in the J2EE community. Several open source projects, including Spring, PicoContainer, and HiveMind, use the IoC pattern to develop lightweight J2EE Containers.
Rendering Oracle HTML DB Reports as PDFs Using Formatting Objects Processor
(Kris Rice, Carl Backstrom and Raj Mattamal)Many end users need the ability to produce print-quality reports from Web-based reports. With Oracle HTML DB 1.6, developers can use Javascript and Formatting Objects Processor (FOP), a print formatter application provided by The Apache Software Foundation
Develop embedded Crystal Reports for WebSphere Information Integrator
(C. M. Saracco) New plug-ins shipped with IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD) Version 6 help Java programmers speed up development of Web applications that embed reports containing critical corporate data. In this article, learn how to combine RAD’s new code generation facilities with WebSphere
Program with Informix .NET extensions
(Kanchana Padmanabhan) Some Informix data types cannot be loaded into .NET built-in types without losing precision, functionality, or both. Discover how to avoid compromising your data types, and find out how to use the following Informix data types included in the IBM Informix .NET provider: IfxBlo
Writing and Reading XML with XIST
(Uche Ogbuji) XIST is a very interesting project I’ve been meaning to dig into for some time. If you’ve been following the news section at the end of each of these columns, you’ll have noticed the steady work that Walter Dörwald, the project leader, has put into this toolkit. It started out as a fra
Invalidating cached result sets using SQL Server Query Notification
(Rushi Desai) Anyone who has written a web application has probably experienced the cost of doing a database round trip for fetching a result set everytime a web user loads a page. In fact, handling a page request may involve more than one queries (imagine 20 drop-down boxes, each of which must be p
The Need for Better SQL Server Backups
(Robin Schumacher) There is perhaps no greater responsibility for the database administrator than establishing proper backup and recovery plans. Although the DBA performs other important tasks, nothing approaches the critical nature of ensuring the protection of key corporate data. For this reas