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Creating Your Own Private UDDI Registry

he Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) specification and protocol work together to form define messages, application programming interfaces (APIs), and data structures for building distributed registries of Web services

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Write to a Perl File Using Flock

In his tip “Locking a File With the Perl Flock Function,” Steve Renaker’s example opens a file without specifying read or write. While this will successfully open a file for

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Overloading a Function Template

If the function template you’re adding incorporates functionality that you already have, then you need to remove the old members first; otherwise the duplication will cause ambiguity. Here’s an example.

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MapPoint Web Services: The Roadmap Ahead

he convergence of cartography, geography and computing ranks among one of the greatest accomplishments of information technology. Digitized maps and data sets, coupled with powerful computer-aided design applications, relational databases

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Use This Method to Format an Integer

Say you want the length of an integer to be exactly five digits, you can use the below method: NumberFormat nf=NumberFormat.getInstance(); // Get Instance of NumberFormatnf.setMinimumIntegerDigits(5); // The minimum Digits

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Export HTML Data into Excel Files

Nowadays, many reports are generated as HTML documents for access on the Web. This tip shows you how to export that HTML data as it is (including all the CSS

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Ready for Retail? Get Your App on the Map

ow many times have you walked through your favorite electronics superstore, say Best Buy or CompUSA, looked at the software products sitting on the shelves and wondered ‘why them’? As

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Encrypt Sensitive Configuration Data with Java

hen application developers are developing, parameters are often hard-coded in the source code. These hard-coded parameters are often pulled out of the source code and put into property files or

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Monitor eBay Auctions with Visual Studio.NET

logging though mail earlier this year, I came across an interesting message about Microsoft and eBay working to make it easier to integrate eBay into Office applications. This piqued my

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SOA + EDA = FUD?

hile service-oriented architecture (SOA) seems to be on everybody’s lips these days, some vendors and analysts are proposing an alternative approach known as event-driven architecture (EDA). Some camps even go

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XUL: The Gatekeeper to Higher-level Web UIs

or almost a year now Microsoft has been touting XAML, its XML Application Markup Language, as being a significant disruptive technology changing how you will develop your applications, and in

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Accept Multiple Arrays as Parameters

Passing multi-dimensional arrays to routines is different in VB.NET. Say you have a two-dimensional array called aStrMy2DArray(10,1) as a string data type: Private Sub MyRoutine(ByVal aStrMy2DArray as String (,)) ‘

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Execute a .jar File Without All the Usual Debugging

In order to execute a .jar file using Java’s -jar jarfile command, the manifest file needs to have the classpath defined. This would look something like: Manifest-Version: 1.0Sealed: trueMain-Class: com.CalculatorClass-Path:

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Copy Multiple Items in the Clipboard

Many times during coding you feel the need to keep more than one block of code in your clipboard.Visual Studio provides a wonderful feature for this using the clipboard ring.

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Customize Your Template Function

If a function instantiated from a generic template definition does not suit your need, it’s possible to provide a specialized definition for that function template instantiation. Take a look at

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XML-based Integration Techniques

n order for a business to thrive in today’s dynamic world, its computing infrastructure must enable the secure flow of information-not only within the business but also with suppliers and

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Rediscover (and Structure) CGI with a Simple Link Technique

don’t like CGI programming because it is unstructured?though programming in general has been structured for many, many years. Web developers have powerful IDEs, formidable application frameworks like Enterprise Java Beans,

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How to Spoof-proof Your Logins

epending on which side of the consumer-business equation you are on, you might either expect to perform a transaction with another machine or you might expect a person to be

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Write Apps for the Smartphone without Dumbing Down Your UI

he long-awaited Smartphone 2003 platform finally supports the .NET Compact Framework. With this support, developers can now write managed Smartphone applications using C# or VB.NET. However, the current Smartphone 2003

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Use SimpleDateFormatter for Date and Text Conversion

The following code shows you how to use SimpleDateFormatter for date and text conversion: java.text.SimpleDateFormat formatter = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(“EEE MMM d hh:mm:ss yyyy”); java.util.Date date1 = null;try{ date1 = formatter.parse(“Thu

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Perform a Case-sensitive Search in .NET Using XPath

The following code shows to how to perform a case-sensitive search in .NET using XPath. XML File: sonu sonu Code File: Related Posts Internet divides remote Marubo tribe deeplyRivian develops

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Mixed Emotions About .NET Managed Code in SQL Server

icrosoft’s impending release of the new capability to write stored procedures in SQL Server is a big advance and technologically admirable, but it raises serious questions about whether such a