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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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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

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Storing Values in a Windows Registry with VB

The following code allows you to permanently store values in a Windows registry and retrieve them later: SaveSetting appname:=”ABCX”, Section:=”Startup”, Key:=”samp”, setting:=”Y” You can either check in the Windows registry

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Pass a Multi-dimensional Array to a Routine

Passing a multi-dimensional array to a routine is different in .NET. For example, say you have a two-dimensional array called aStrMy2DArray(10,1) as a String data type. Use this code to

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Advanced JMS Messaging with OpenJMS

n a previous article I covered some of the basics of JMS using OpenJMS as the JMS provider. In this article, you’ll see some more advanced OpenJMS topics such as

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Use Generics to Create an Audit Trail

he Whidbey release of .NET will include a new Common Language Runtime (CLR) feature called generics. Generics allow you to use a variable to represent a desired data type, and

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Using XPathDocument in XPath Queries

Don’t use the XmlDocument class if you are going to work with XPath queries. .NET has its own class for this purpose called XPathDocument, which does not run any validation

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Ensure Network Safety with Centralized Logging

ver the past few years, the number of Windows-based worm attacks has grown dramatically. Companies have implemented full-scale virus scanning and Windows update facilities to help stop the worm attacks.