(Jonas Jacobi) MyFaces is an open source project that can be found under the umbrella of the Apache foundation. MyFaces is an alternative JavaServer Faces (JSF) implementation to the JSF Reference Implementation (RI) provided by Sun. In most cases developers will be satisfied using what ever JSF
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MySQL Triggers Tryout
(Peter Gulutzan) MySQL 5.0, the alpha version of MySQL that’s available for testing new features, has trigger support. This is no surprise, as triggers were promised in the MySQL Development Roadmap, but it’s a novel experience to work with one of the big “MySQL can’t do that” features and watch MyS
A .NET Developer’s Guide to Windows Security: Understanding User Profiles
(Keith Brown) Understanding just what user profiles are, and how they interact with the Windows registry system is key to keeping a secure system. Making sure that your programs store settings in the user-specific settings trees, rather than the program directory, will help keep passwords and other
Parallelism in WebSphere Information Integrator V8.2
(Simon Harris) Explore several key performance enhancements introduced in WebSphere® Information Integrator V8.2. In particular, this article includes a detailed discussion of trusted and fenced wrapper architecture, along with improvements in SMP and MPP parallelism.
Full Text Search on SQL 2000 Part 3
(Don Schlichting) In the previous month’s articles, Full Text Searching was introduced as a way to query strings with more refinement than the usual TSQL “like” or equal operator statements. With Full Text Searching, a new file system structure is created, storing key words from selected fields into
Generating XML Instances from Flat Files
(Indroniel Deb Roy) Enterprise applications such as banking, healthcare, and so on still use flat files to import/export data between applications. Flat files contain machine-readable data that is typically encoded in printable characters. There is a growing need for these applications to intera
Installing WebSphere Studio Application Monitor V3.1
(Joe DeCarlo, Breet “Chuck” Bangle, Nichole Cargill and Dennis Moore) This IBM Redbook was written for anyone interested in the installation of WebSphere Studio Application Monitor for Multiplatforms including performance analysts, WebSphere administrators, and technical management. Our goal is
Managing Information Access to an Enterprise Information System Using J2EE and Services Oriented Architecture
(William Moore, Corville Allen, Ralf Bracht, Sook Chua, Daniel Koch and Donato Marrazzo) This IBM Redbook focuses on issues associated with the integration of an existing enterprise information system (EIS) into a new Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and other service-oriented application
The XPath 2.0 Data Model
(Bob DuCharme) In everything I’ve written in this column so far about XSLT 2.0, I’ve been cherry-picking—taking fun new features and plugging them into what were otherwise XSLT 1.0 stylesheets in order to demonstrate these features. As XSLT 2.0 and its companion specification XQuery 1.0 approach Rec
Create singleton objects in .NET to improve performance
(Robert L. Bogue) One singleton can be an extremely valuable tool for enhancing performance. This is particularly true when there is always just one physical object. In traditional programming, you would instantiate a class as an object every time you need a specific instance of an object. For i