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(Deepak Vohra) SQLExplorer is an Eclipse IDE database plugin that may be used to connect to a database from Eclipse. The SQLExplorer plugin adds a graphical user interface (GUI) to access a database with SQL. With SQLExplorer, you can display the tables, table structure, and data in the tables, and

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(John Topley) Just over a year ago, I started to learn how to use the Jakarta Struts J2EE Web application framework. During this journey, I realised that I found some aspects of Struts confusing at first, and that many other developers might well suffer the same difficulties. This article is an atte

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