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Stop and Start Tomcat Directly from Ant

This simple tip shows you how to stop and start the Tomcat server directly from an Ant script on the Windows system. Here are the two targets to do so:

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Testing Compatibility Between SQL Server Versions

When migrating SQL code (stored procedures, triggers, etc.) to newer versions, it’s not uncommon to have to rewrite your entire back-end code. However, a simpler solution is to check the

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Bring Array Mapping Capabilities to SQL

QL has been evolving?slowly?for over three decades, (see Wikipedia for a historical summary). While SQL in the hands of an expert is quite powerful, it’s sometimes cumbersome compared to other

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Paint Event Not Called During Form Resize

Many of us write common graphics code in the Form’s Paint event because the Paint Event handler provides access to the Graphics object, and also because this handler is fired

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Mapping a Component in Hibernate

A “component” in Hibernate is an object persisted as a value, not an entity reference. For example, suppose you have a Car class, like this: //class Carpublic class Car {

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Webinar Replay: Understanding the Basics of Route Calculation

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The Java EE Application as an EJB/Spring/Hibernate Hybrid

lain old Java object (POJO)-based architectures and lighter-weight development models using tools such as Spring and Hibernate have gained considerable acceptance in the enterprise Java space during the past few

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Code-Free User-Interface Design with Expression Blend

icrosoft Expression Blend is a new full-featured design tool for creating highly-interactive and sophisticated Windows application user interfaces using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). With Expression Blend, a designer can design

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JavaFX Progress: It’s Academic

“hese days if you look at the way a lot of shops work, they have really two kinds of people that go into developing web sites” James Gosling, vice president

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Give Your Applications Mapping Capabilities, Part 1

ome of the most interesting features of modern web sites are based on Geographical Information System (GIS) technologies. GIS techniques essentially give you a way to manage and show geographical

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My Nightmare, and an Apology

rom 1981 through 1986, I taught high school. I was fresh out of college (OK, a semester of engineering grad school which “didn’t take”), didn’t really know what to do,

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Seeing the Silverlight

icrosoft has officially entered the space of rich interactive browser development with a new product called Silverlight. To better understand what Silverlight is you simply need to take a look

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MVP Corner: 13 Steps for Building an Article

s a kid/teen, I wrote short stories and read tons of magazines: Boy’s Life, Baseball Digest, Twilight Zone, and MAD Magazine. My parents knew how to keep me occupied on

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Creating Web Sites with ASP.NET 2.0

rom basic, static HTML pages to totally data-driven and data-centric Web applications, the demands on a Web developer are much more complex and demanding than they were just a few

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Working with Nullable Types in C#

orking with value types was sometimes awkward in .NET 1.x, because they could cause serious problems in applications that retrieved data from database tables containing columns that can have null

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There’s More to Typecasting than C++ Cast Operators

xplicit typecasting is considered are an abomination in object-oriented programming. However, prudery won’t change the fact that casts are still a widely-used feature in C++ programming. Therefore, knowing exactly which

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Visualizing Data: Self-Documenting Ant files

I have always been fascinated by informational graphics. Mathematicians aside, most people find properly rendered information graphics easier to assimilate and quicker to understand than raw data, in whatever form

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Use the UseWaitCursor Property to Change Cursors

The System.Windows.Form class’s UseWaitCursor property sets the window’s cursor to an hourglass. It is a Boolean property. The Application class also contains a UseWaitCursor property, which sets the UseWaitCursor property