(Deepak Vohra) Maven is an open-source project development tool from the Apache Jakarta Project for building and managing Java projects; it integrates the capabilities of other open source development lifecycle tools such as Ant, Junit, and Jelly. A Maven project consists of a J2EE project file or a
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DB2 connection routing using Linux load balancing
(Monty Wright) Spread DB2 client connections across multiple servers with Balance, a powerful open source tool for the Linux platform. This article tells you what DB2 UDB connection routing is and explains how you can use it to balance your client requests on the Linux platform.
Digging Into Data Binding Expressions
(Scott) Data binding expressions in ASP.NET are the small snippets of code you see between characters in an ASPX file. We normally see these expressions in a Repeater’s ItemTemplate declarations, and in a DataGrid’s TemplateColumn markup. Also, Data binding expressions often contain a ca
The Dance of Markup
(John E. Simpson) If you’re a regular visitor to XML.com, you know the extent to which XML sometimes seems to have taken over the world. It’s so simple to use, and has so much cross-platform utility, that it apparently fires the imagination of people who — or so you might think — otherwise have li
PHP and ASP.NET Go Head-to-Head
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Lotus Workplace Web Content Management and Content Manager Working Together for LWWCM Java Edition V2 and CM V8 Only
(Wei-Dong Zhu) In this IBM Redbook, we explore how we can put both IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management (LWWCM) V2 Java Edition and IBM DB2 Content Manager (Content Manager) V8 products at work together. We provide overviews of LWWCM and Content Manager products, discuss why we might want t
Expert Tips for Securing Web Services
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Getting an environment variable value using T-SQL
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