April 11, 2005

SOA: Refactoring Mainframe Applications into Dynamic Web Applications, Part 2

his article is the second of a two-part series discussing how to use service-oriented techniques to refactor a mainframe application into deployable Web services within a standard Java servlet framework. The first part discussed how to apply SOA to a mainframe-dependent system. This part completes the discussion by showing how

Skin Your Web Apps Using MVC

VC, or Model-View-Controller, is a design architecture that promotes separation among parts of an application, with particular focus on the presentation tier. The concept of MVC is inherent in the ASP.NET architecture. I’ll show you how to take advantage of that to provide skinning or themes capability to your Web