(Julien Dubois) Starting a new J2EE project from scratch can be as challenging as it is exciting. The decisions you make at the earliest stages of a project will have tremendous consequences across the project’s lifetime. For that reason, sound project management practices can often ensure a project
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Open Source Licenses Are Not All the Same
(Stephen Fishman) One of the most significant developments in the software and web development community in the past few years has been the increased use of open source software. It’s vital for any programmer, web designer, or other computer professional to understand that open source licenses a
UML for Software Developers Part 1: Building Classes
(Mark Goetsch) Why do we need to model software? After all, aren’t the acts of coding and refactoring of that code enough? That depends on what is meant by enough! You could code up some software, hand it in, and go through a constant refactoring process with the client. This is how most softwar
SQL Server 2005 Amid DBMS Market Dynamics
(Peter O’Kelly) Last month’s Trends & Analysis column provided an overview of database management system (DBMS) trends and the reasons why DBMSs have a resurgent and expanding role in the broader application platform landscape. This month’s column assesses Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005 product lin
Automate routine tasks with Windows Services, part 1
(Tony Patton) I know very few application developers who spend 100 percent of their time with actual programming work. We often have to devote a portion of our time to system maintenance, as well as the usual array of meetings. Find out how the .NET Framework’s Windows Services (formerly known as NT
DB2 UDB Version 8 Family Reference Guide
(Susan Lawson) Register to receive the newly released “DB2 UDB Version 8 Family Reference Guide” compliments of BMC Software. This 400+ page guide was developed to help users in their daily activities in administrating and programming in DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8 (and DB2 UDB for Unix, Windows
Survey: XML Traffic Poses Long-Term Network Problems
(Preston Gralla) XML data has started to clog enterprise network traffic and bog down processors due to the increasing quantity and size of XML messages, according to a just-released report from the IT market intelligence firm ZapThink.
File Watcher Task
(Darren Green) The File Watcher Task does what it says really, it watches a folder waiting for files. When a file is found the task completes, returning the name of the file found in the task’s ExecValueVariable. The created and changed events are both monitored, so new files and changes to exis
BDNtv: Deriving a model from an existing database with ECO II in Delphi 2005
(John Kaster) Henrik Jondell, Director of Product Management for ECO, demonstrates how ECO II in Delphi 2005 can produce a model from an existing database, and immediately use that model as part of a model-powered application. The resulting application is a C# Winforms application that uses the Nort
For interesting interface access, check out Xamlon
(Ed Tittel) As evidence of the ever-increasing exploitation of the overlap between XML markup languages and Windows development tools and environments, I urge those with a foot in the .NET camp and another on the Web to check out Xamlon Pro, for which the first commercial release just shipped days a