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s we head into 2004, for me it’s a time to reflect how far our industry has evolved over the past twelve months, and the pace at which new technologies

un’s Java 2 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft’s .NET Framework represent the two undisputed titans of n-tier, enterprise software platforms. Although most IT departments will standardize on one of these platforms

any organizations have applications already written in Java; but applications often aren’t static?they need constant attention and modifications to remain productive. When it’s time to upgrade, rather than rewriting the

t’s a fact that most production environments now use a mixture of both Java and .NET, despite all the partisan disputes over which side should “win.” To be prudently responsible

ORBA, the acronym for Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is a widely used communications model for building distributed (multi-tier) applications that connect both cross-platform and cross-language clients to server-based services.

As useful as pointers to member functions are, in certain situations?for example when using STL algorithms?you need to use more sophisticated constructs that wrap bare pointers to members and transform

Figure 1. Printing and Previewing Plain Text: Here’s the main form of the TextPrinting Project in Part II of this series, along with the print preview form from the same

art I of this two-part series exploring DTS tasks illustrated how to chain different types of tasks together to collect the information you need to process data contained in a

urphy’s Law states that if something can go wrong, it will. It is comforting to know that you can guard against at least some calamities. In the case of IBM®