he XML format has become a de facto standard in contemporary IT work. Amongst all the XML-related technology advances, Java-XML binding and serialization has especially been of use to me
here is nothing more reassuring for the software engineer than having a set of executable unit tests that exercise all the aspects of the component under test. Traditionally, testing J2EE
pen source software is gaining increased attention and is clearly making its mark in the IT portfolio of many small and medium businesses. The increased usage of Linux, the availability
Creating Web services in C# is very easy. All you have to do is extend the WebService class and identify which methods are Web service methods using the WebMethod attribute.
Open a window in VS.NET. Go to Project?>Visio UML?>Reverse Engineer. This automatically shows you the class diagrams with perfect relationships. Note: This tip will work with VS.NET Version 1.0.0 and
lthough the EJB 3.0 specification has yet to be released, it is already generating much interest in the software development community by both proponents and opponents alike. All recognize the
In MS Front Page 2000, while entering data in a table cell under Normal TAB, typing the following automatically adds tags wherever required: Related Posts Japan Earthquake: Nuclear Plants Largely
There is no default itoa implementation in the STL under Linux. If you include , it won’t work. If you disable the STL from the GCC command line, you lose
he previous two articles in this series provided an overview of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF, formerly code-named Indigo) programming model, service addressing, binding and contracts, and a discussion of
Suppose you have a class and want to use it at runtime. The code below shows how you can load the class and execute a desired method at runtime. The
To check whether nested triggers are turned on or off in SQL Server, issue the following command in Query Analyzer: EXEC sp_configure ‘nested triggers’ If the run_value is 0 then
harePoint’s built-in tools are good at providing a basic interface for adding and editing data, however, there are times when the included editing features aren’t enough. There are applications where
n the days of ASP.NET 1.x, Microsoft first created ASP.NET Starter Kits to help developers jumpstart Web development. ASP.NET Starter Kits are sample ASP.NET applications that provide code as an
Dates are generally a requirement for every application. However, including dates for users across the globe can be tedious, because different people use different formats to read the date. Oracle
Suppose you are writing a row-level trigger Z on a table X to update an audit table Y with information about inserts into X, and you need to know what
This tip provides a substitute for the __strrev function, because it’s not available under Linux. This is useful if you are porting existing code from Windows to Linux. Suppose you
n September of 2005, Microsoft unleashed Windows Workflow Foundation (Windows WF) at its semi-annual Professional Developer’s Conference. As one of the pillars of the WinFX APIs, Windows WF provides developers
If you’ve ever used the built-in logging facilities introduced in JDK 1.4, you’ve certainly faced a situation wherein you wanted to prevent log messages from appearing on the console. The
ometimes bad things happen to good people. For many developers, that is the perfect summation of how the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act has affected their daily lives. At first blush, the
racle’s COM automation feature lets Oracle PL/SQL or Java developers leverage any of the thousands of pre-existing COM components, as well as any pre-built, in-house COM components (See Sidebar 1:
ecently, I received this email: Rich: Dug your story on filters. The drop shadow following the mouse as a light source was great. Maybe you can help me with this.
f you work with databases, you’ll often need to copy data from one database to another. While that sounds like a straightforward task, it often involves more than just a
Suppose you have a class hierarchy and you plan to do some downcasts. Try writing virtuals in the root class to do the downcasting to NULL for each of the
Sometimes you need to display a string of characters of a specified length for a column value in a SQL query. To this end, SQL Server supports a function called
Normally, you need a main method in a Java class if you want to run that class from the command line. However, there is a little trick that allows you
The following code assigns an OnClick event to each calendar cell by altering the way the calendar control renders the cells containing the days. When clicked, the calendar posts back
ecurity is one of the most important aspects in the software development life cycle. Everyday some software product’s exploit is published all over the Internet. As soon as an attacker
n this article you’ll see an exciting use for XMI?reading the connections between two server nodes in a UML diagram using C#. While my last XMI article collected information about
akarta Commons, the set of reusable classes that various Jakarta projects use, are available as separate components, which you can use in your Java projects. This article is the second
ive years ago, I explained how to simulate heterogeneous containers by storing raw pointers to polymorphic objects in an STL container. C++ has come along way since: tuples now allow