By Paul Krill and James Niccolai – LOOKING TO LEVERAGE growing interest in grid computing, Oracle will detail its grid strategy in a bid to position its technology as a foundation for distributed applications.
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Validate XML With a Web Service
by Dan Wahlin – Validating XML against a schema or DTD is important if your app involves exchanging XML documents. Learn a simple way to send XML to a Web service method for validation and processing.
Tip: Using a DOM NodeFilter
XML’s DOM Level 2 Traversal module provides two new objects, the TreeWalker and the NodeIterator, which simplify the process of navigating a Document. More than that, the module defines a NodeFilter, which can be used to programmatically control what nodes are visible to the TreeWalker or NodeFilter
Automatic Numbering, Part 1
by Bob DuCharme – XSLT’s xsl:number instruction makes it easy to insert a number into your result document. Its value attribute lets you name the number to insert, but if you really want to add a specific number to your result, it’s much simpler to add that number as literal text.
Lumigent Technologies Introduces Software to Audit Database Changes
Lumigent Technologies, Inc. today introduced Entegra to help enterprises create audit records of data access to fulfill internal business practice requirements and insure regulatory compliance. Entegra is the only product to provide a complete audit trail of information on data access, including cha
Book Review: Writing Secure Code
By Vyas Kondreddi – The cover page of this book says, “Practical strategies and proven techniques for building secure applications in a networked world”. And that’s exactly what you’ll find inside this book. The authors are top security experts, from Windows XP team and Microsoft’s new trustworthy c
Database Battle Heats Up
By Lisa Vaas and John S. McCright – Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. will ratchet up their ongoing database battle with each announcing new and upgraded features that hit at the other’s strengths.
HOW TO: Using DB-LIBRARY in a Threaded Application
This article provides tips for using DB-LIBRARY in a threaded application.
A pseudo-random number generator with a twist
(Richard Stucke) Here is a pseudo random number generator function that is simple to use and has the added capability of limiting the range of random numbers produced. There are times when you don’t want just any random number from 1 thru 9999; for example, you may want all the random number to be f
Wireless In An Uncertain World
With little fanfare, companies are continuing to develop practical wireless applications for the enterprise. Here’s how they’re using Oracle’s flexible XML-based development environment to do it.