E-business is showing a new side, as UBL becomes a new OASIS Standard. This designation represents the highest echelon of ratification. The language defines a common XML library of business documents.
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EII is a Strategy, not a Technique
(S. Radhakrishnan) Enterprise information integration is the latest buzzword; it is largely associated with federated databases by the database technology vendors. Not to be confused with enterprise application integration, which integrates applications, EII is slated to integrate information. Infor
Resolving the -927 error
(Craig Mullins) What does this -000000927 represent and how do I solve this? (R)
Transform XML via XSLT-Stylesheets
(Ekki) With XML you can describe data hierarchically without caring about the later output format, and with XSL-Transformations you have the ability to convert the content of that XML document into various formats such as text, xml, html, … if necessary you can replace, add, reformat the content,
Authenticating Logins
(Morris Lewis) Login security is the first step in securing a server. The basic premise is that an attacker cannot hurt what he cannot see; therefore, you will spend a lot of time ensuring unauthorized users never log into SQL Server successfully. It may seem as though authenticating logins should b
Optimizing Your SQL Code with SQL Server 2005
(Gunther Lenz, Francois Bronsard and Jean Hartmann) A common complaint of database administrators (DBAs) is that performance bottlenecks are not among those problems that one can fix “by just throwing hardware at it.” Thus, database servers must provide tools and techniques to help administrators ad
An Introduction to Java Object Persistence with EJB
(Jeff Hanson) Storing and retrieving information for most applications usually involves some form of interaction with a relational database. This has presented a fundamental problem for developers for quite some time since the design of relational data and object-oriented instances share very differ
Perform Exception Handling in .NET Exceptionally
(Mark Strawmyer) An exception is an error condition or unexpected behavior that occurs within an application. Exceptions can occur from within classes in the Microsoft .NET Framework or other classes you use. You also can raise them in your own code. Exceptions can result from various conditions, su
Use a Java applet to access remote Web services
(Nicholas Chase) Applets have always been designed to play in a ‘sandbox’ in which they can’t hurt anything on a user’s system, so their security is tighter than that of their server-based application counterparts. For example, a Java application can easily make a network connection to another serve
InformixConnection: Bridging the Islands (e-book)
Now you can connect Informix data with other corporate information. The result? An impressive enterprise view. (R)