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Bricks and Mortar: Building a Castle

n an application built with object-oriented techniques, objects are the bricks. You construct little pieces of code encapsulated in these bricks. To build bigger structures, you need to hold these

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Publish/Subscribe Messaging Can Be Simple with WebSphere MQ

essage-oriented middleware (MOM) decouples applications by allowing them to communicate using one of two messaging models: point-to-point messaging and publish/subscribe messaging. The models differ in fundamental ways, but neither requires

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Robust, Reusable Drag-and-Drop Behavior in Silverlight

s the richness of Internet applications continues to grow through technologies such as Silverlight, AJAX, and Flash, the adoption of common desktop user interface (UI) paradigms within these applications continues

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Have You Gotten Started Yet?

It’s free to join Forum Nokia, and when you become a member, you can make the most of Nokia’s extensive development, testing, signing, go to market, and community resources. Check

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The Zen of Inversion of Control

n the surface, this article is about the techniques of dependency injection and inversion of control. Underneath, however, the article is intended to get you to think about the questions

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The Good Parasite Class Explained

y recent C++ 10-Minute Solution titled “Using a Good Parasite Class to Design a Self-Clearing Memory Buffer” was greeted with skepticism, raised eyebrows, and a torrent of questions from readers

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How Base64 Content Encoding Works

The term “Base64” refers to a specific MIME content-transfer encoding. It’s also used as a generic term for any similar encoding scheme that encodes binary data by treating it numerically

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Incrementing a C# Variable Efficiently

When you’re incrementing an object of a fundamental type, there’s no difference between prefix (++obj) and postfix (obj++) operators. However, when you’re incrementing a composite object, using the postfix operator

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Calling JTidy from Java to Convert HTML to XHTML

The open source JTidy project does an excellent job of converting HTML files to the newer XHTML standard. The following code shows how to invoke JTidy programmatically from Java: /*In:

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Using the OneWay Web Service Attribute

When you call a web service method that doesn’t return a value (a void method), you don’t want to waste time waiting until the call returns. But by default, the

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How to Declare a java.util.Date in a EJB 3.0 Entity

To map a date column value to a Java date in EJB 3.0, use this code: @Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)private java.util.Date publishDate; Related Posts Quick Way to Print Only Certain Rows of an

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Dances with Workflows (One Newbie’s Journey)

ecently I started working with a client who was interested in using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) in a custom application. Having never used WF before, I thought it might be

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Why Mobilise Websites? You Can Win BIG!

Did you know that 40% of all internet users today have mobile internet access? That means mobile internet users could represent a large percentage of your site’s traffic. Are you

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Get Internet Connectivity for Your .NET Mobile Device Emulators

Often, device emulator manager software does not automatically synchronize Internet connections between your device emulator and your workstation. To get an Internet connection, you need to install additional software—either Microsoft

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Show a Footer for All ASP .NET Pages in a Site

This tip is useful for displaying a uniform footer in all your site’s pages, including any pages served from the site’s subdirectories. In this case, assume you want to display

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Silverlight-Enabled Live Search

any web services offer clients a variety of ways to communicate with them, including SOAP and REST, and can often return either XML or JSON. Silverlight can communicate with any

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Using LINQ to Manage File Resources and Context Menus

anguage Integrated Query, or LINQ, is a new Microsoft technology introduced with the .NET 3.5 framework. This Microsoft quote describes its purpose succinctly: “Traditionally, queries against data are expressed as

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Developing a DSL Abstract Syntax with Eclipse

omain-specific languages (DSLs) and model-driven development (MDD) offer developers powerful new ways to improve productivity, enhance quality, and insulate systems from rapid technological change. The Eclipse Modeling Project allows developers

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Writing a Parameterized SQL Query in EJB 3.0

protected EntityManager manager;…String ejbqlDelete = “delete from ClientTicket p where ” + “p.closed = :paramClosed and ” + “p.department = :paramDepartment and ” + “p.ticketUserID = :paramTicketUserID and ” +