Improve XPath Efficiency With VTD-XML
[ Source: Jupitermedia ]
January 2008-
Even though XML and XPath have been around for several years, there’s still room for performance improvements - and VTD-XML and its XPath implementation provide them. XPath has been steadily gaining popularity as an effective tool when developing XML applications. XPath was originally viewed as an adjunct element for the W3C’s XSLT and XPointer specifications, but developers found its simplicity appealing. However, most existing XPath engines work with DOM trees or similar object models, which ....
Microsoft Queuing Frameworks: SQL Service Broker Vs. MSMQ
[ Source: Jupitermedia ]
January 2008-
Microsoft offers two queuing frameworks to its ’brand’ of developers: MSMQ and SQL Service Broker. Microsoft originally provided MSMQ in the Windows NT4 Option Pack, and has since published multiple revisions. With the release of SQL Server 2005, Microsoft also offers Service Broker as an alternative to MSMQ. Service Broker functionality is available in any language one uses to access data from SQL Server. This paper outlines some of the differences and may help one ....
Migrating Legacy Microsoft Applications to .NET
[ Source: Cognizant Technology Solutions ]
January 2008-
.NET represents a substantial change in the Microsoft technology suite and therefore presents unique challenges for organizations needing to move towards adopting it as a framework for developing Enterprise solutions. A key issue facing most companies with an existing set of Microsoft based systems is to plan a strategic approach to a move towards .NET. This paper presents the conclusions the authors have drawn from their experience with various organizations who have successfully (and not ....
Tech-Ed Offers Previews of Powerful Tools
[ Source: Jupitermedia ]
January 2008-
While there’s plenty of new information about existing MIcrososft products, developers will particularly welcome upcoming capabilities in ADO.NET vNext, .NET Framework 3.0, Windows PowerShell, and Office 2007. At Microsoft’s Tech Ed 2006 conference in Boston in June 2006 the pre-conference keynote on discussed little of importance to developers which was a good thing, as many attendees didn’t arrive in time to hear it. In an orgy of nomenclature revision, Microsoft has eliminated WinFx as a ....
How to Resolve the Challenges of Biometric Technology Integration, Deployment, and Support
[ Source: M2SYS Technology ]
March 2008-
Biometric authentication components are emerging as an essential part of comprehensive business software applications and will play a central role in existing and future applications, networks, and information storage facilities. These biometric components utilize physical traits or behavioral characteristics for reliable identity authentication. Application developers, integrators and software solution providers are challenged with growing demand for biometric security features and functions. With a wide variety of biometric ....
Leveraging EJB Timers for J2EE Concurrency
[ Source: Jupitermedia ]
January 2008-
The paper published by Jupitermedia describes about leveraging EJB timers for J2EE concurrency. This paper introduces an alternative approach for J2EE concurrency that takes advantage of the inherent thread pool management of EJB timers. This approach is portable across application servers and does not require a messaging provider and resources such as queues and connection factories. Furthermore, since EJB timers are transactional and recoverable, this approach enables robust and reliable concurrency solutions.
Top 5 Myths of Screen Scraping
[ Source: Seagull Software ]
June 2008-
Many organizations with mainframe, System i or OpenVMS applications still ask their employees to use green-screen (or text-based) user interfaces to work with essential business information. Green-screens are a business problem and a technology problem. They're unappealing, hard to learn, intimidating, and accessible only with terminal emulation software. They’re also incompatible with modern application integration methods like Web services and SOA.
The appeal of screen-scraping is understandable — it's simple and inexpensive. But many ....
CANopen.NET - Programming-Less Interconnection Between GUI- and Control-Application
[ Source: CC Systems ]
January 2008-
CANopen-based systems are equipped with one or more nodes with Windows-based Graphical User-Interfaces (GUIs). CANopen.NET provides a .NET-database interface via the .NET type dataset to the data in the object dictionary. .NET framework provides the most attractive solutions for design of GUIs both for Windows and Windows CE based nodes. CANopen.NET provides a programming-less interconnection between CANopen-based control applications and Windows.NET-based GUI-applications. This paper from CC explains. .NET technologies that can be used both on ....
iSeries Performance Capabilities Reference i5/OS Version 5, Release 4
[ Source: IBM ]
January 2008-
The objective of this paper is to help provide assistance in terms of iSeries performance, capacity planning information, and tips to obtain best performance on iSeries servers. The paper includes performance information on new System i5 servers, DB2 UDB for iSeries SQL Query Engine Support, WebSphere Application Server, Java including Classic JVM and IBM Technology for Java (32-bit), iSeries Netserver file serving, Cryptography, Domino 7, Workplace, RAID6 versus RAID5 disk comparisons, Virtual Tape, IPL Performance, ....
Mastering the WPF RichTextBox
[ Source: Jupitermedia ]
January 2008-
RichTextBox component in WPF/.NET 3.0 received a major upgrade compared to the previous version of the RichTextBox control that shipped with.NET 2.0. But with the expanded capability comes the need for additional APIs and different usage patterns. Microsoft intended developers to work with the RichTextBox component via a Command interface. Command attribute on each of these components defines the functionality to activate on the RichTextBox.