This tutorial shows you how to use WebSphere Portal to create and deploy a portlet that contains AJAX functionality.

This tutorial offers practical exercises that step you through the tasks of assembling, deploying, and managing modules as a J2EE application on a WebSphere Application Server using Application Server Toolkit. WebSphere Application Server Toolkit is a key assembly tool for administrators running J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server.

Record automated functional tests, enhance the tests through Java scripting, and play back those tests as part of a regression test suite. Learn how in this tutorial, part of the Hello World series.

This tutorial, featured in the IBM Enterprise Architect Kit for SOA, will help you prepare for IBM certification test 665: Architectural Design of SOA Solutions to attain IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer certification.

In Part 2 of this four-part series, we explore an important distributed application architecture called Representational State Transfer (REST), which will be used to extend the knock-knock protocol described in Part 1 to use XML, instead of HTML.

This tutorial series teaches you how to create proof-of-concept applications to access relational and XML data in IBM DB2 9, using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005. Part 1 explains the application specifications, database design, and how to create DB2 relational database objects required in the applications.

Learn how to create a Web application in ASP.NET and wire the DB2 data to the Web application running in a browser, in Part 3 of this series.

Discover three Ajax data transport mechanisms (XMLHttp, script tags, and frames or iframes) and their relative strengths and weaknesses. This tutorial provides code for both the server side and the client side and explains it in detail to provide the techniques you need to put efficient Ajax controls anywhere you need them.

In the creation of a database, a data model and integrity constraints can create certainty in the structure and content of the data. But how do you enforce that kind of control when your data is just text in hand-editable files? Fortunately, validating files and documents can make sure that data fits constraints. In this tutorial, you will learn what validation is and how to check a document against a Document Type Definition (DTD) or XML Schema document.

This tutorial shows you how to use IBM-backed open source and free software to kick-start your Java Web-based application development. You'll learn exactly where to download such components, install them, and get them working for you today.

Cover your back in the worst-case scenario with the techniques in this tutorial. Learn how to protect yourself from losing huge amounts of critical data.

Ever wish you had a place to let your Linux applications playwhere they wouldn't hurt anything else? Do your killer apps spend too much time killing each other? Originally conceived as a kernel developer's tool, UML lets you set up multiple virtual machines that are isolated from each other and from the hardware. Now you can test applications all the way to failure without breaking the host systemor even requiring a reboot. Veteran administrator Carla Schroder shows you how.

Earlier we learned the basic techniques for using Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) to display XML in browsers. Now let's look at some tricks, traps, and nuances.

See how they pass parameters that not only determine the properties to analyze but also change the desired criteria using Web-based forms.

If you're a programmer who wants to learn how to use PHP to build Web-based applications, start here. Begin with the most basic PHP script, end up working with databases and streaming from the file system. In this part, we look at the basics of building a PHP script, including syntax, HTML forms, and database connections.

This tutorial explains how to use Ajax with PHP and introduces the Simple Ajax Toolkit (Sajax), a tool written in PHP that lets you integrate server-side PHP with JavaScript that makes this work.

Using easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, this tutorial samples some of the visual UML 2.0 modeling capabilities. By the end, you'll know how to create a variety of different UML 2.0 diagrams, import existing modeling projects, and edit models.

Learn to identify design problems in your code with the Code Review tools within Rational Software Architect. This tutorial shows you how to use the Code Review rule engine to highlight low-level and high-level coding and design issues.

This tutorial shows you how to create a Java application, create and invoke a Web service, and create a Web application that can access a Cloudscape database using a Relational Record List.

This tutorial for J2EE developers teaches you how to use the new JavaServer Faces Web services toolset bundled with IBM Rational Application Developer to quickly and easily generate Web applications that connect and consume data from a remote systems.

Create, execute, and edit your first Functional Tester regression test, and see how this automated tool for Java, .NET, terminal-based, and Web applications running on Windows and Linux addresses the challenges of regression testing.