(Colette Burrus) In Building Applications with IBM WebSphere Studio and JavaBeans, Steph Parkin and I take you on a guided tour to building applications with the WebSphere Studio Visual Editor for Java and JavaBeans. We show you how to quickly and easily construct GUIs with the new WebSphere Studio
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Information Patterns Basics, Part 3: Time-Related Patterns
(Fons Pieters) The selection of a period of time makes it possible to retrieve all facts related to that specific period of time. These type of selections make time-based views on facts possible. For every information application, the selection of periods of time is therefore standard functionality.
Use the flexibility of XEP to render and publish XML presentations
(Kristine Hansen) Calling itself the first company in the world to do so, RenderX has rolled out a commercial-grade XML rendering engine called XEP. The engine provides an extra tool for publishing quality XML presentations by essentially creating the “missing link” between XML technology and tradit
Internal SQL Server Diagnostics Tools, Part 1: PSSDiag
(Ken Henderson) This article explains how to use PSSDiag, a diagnostics collection tool for SQL Server. PSSDiag is one of several Microsoft Product Support Services tools recently released to the Web that are now available for personal use
Retrieving HTTP content in .NET – Introduction
(Rick Strahl) HTTP content retrieval is an important component for applications these days. Although .NET reduces the need to explicitly retrieve content from the Web through built-in mechanisms in the Web Services framework, ADO.NET and the XML classes, there are still many needs to retrieve Web co
Duplicate Key Inserted Error During Replication
(Andy Warren) If you’ve set up replication without immediately updating (or even queued updating in SQL2K) subscribers, you may see this error if you allow write access to tables on the subscriber. If a user inserts a record into the subscriber, then later that same key is generated on the publisher
Write Secure Scripts with PHP 4.2!
(Kevin Yank) For the longest time, one of the biggest selling points of PHP as a server-side scripting language was that values submitted from a form were automatically created as global variables for you. As of PHP 4.1, the makers of PHP recommended an alternate means of accessing submitted data. I
MSSQL Server 2000 Reporting Services: Black Belt Components: Ad Hoc Conditional Formatting for OLAP Reports
(William Pearson) Over the years that I have spent implementing enterprise Business Intelligence applications, I have found many uses, ranging from "simple to sublime," for conditional formatting. At its most basic, conditional formatting can be used to identify exceptional data in a report. Example
IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Accelerated JSF development for XML-based SOA using Rational Application Developer and WebSphere Application Server — Part 1
(Narinder Makin, Ritchie Schacher, Daniel Berg and Daimar Hernandez) This article series presents a solution that accelerates presentation development for XML-based Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. This solution includes an Eclipse feature that enables the generation of statically t
Trace-scrubbing Tools
(Andrew Zanevsky) SQL Server Profiler is a veritable treasure trove when it comes to helping DBAs optimize their T-SQL code. But, the surfeit of riches (I’m reminded of the Arabian Nights tale of Aladdin) can be overwhelming. I recently had one of those “sinking” feelings when I first tried to m