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Inversion of Control (IoC) and Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) can be effective tools for implementing dynamic business workflows. In this article, learn business workflows' dynamic nature and proposes a two-layer workflow model that lets you use XML to build configurable and flexible solutions.

Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of designing loosely coupled applications that rely on named resources rather than messages. Using the open source Restlet framework makes building RESTful Web services a snap. This tutorial guides you step-by-step through the fundamental concepts of REST and building applications with Restlets.

AIX provides a vast array of commands to handle user and group management. This article discusses some of these core security commands and provides a list that you can use as a ready reference.

Utility-class development and maintenance eats into programmer time. Boost simplifies the process by providing several high-quality libraries that you can easily integrate into your existing code base. This article gives a quick overview of some of the more popular Boost utility classes and helps you understand how to put them to work.

Download the IBM Rational Requirements Composer V7.1 open beta code and enhance your requirements elicitation and definition capabilities with this easy-to-use visualization and collaboration toolset.

This article covers the advanced security features of IBM AIX V6.1, Trusted Execution environment. It educates AIX system administrators on how to ensure system integrity at run-time as well as at stand-by time. This article, which acts as a starting point to learn about the Trusted Execution environment, also covers the most commonly used commands and examples.

In a Kerberos environment, protecting principals' passwords is imperative to preserve the system security. Learn how Kerberos administrators can take advantage of the password protection and password strength enhancement features provided by IBM Network Authentication Service (NAS) for AIX.

Discover how you can deliver Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based applications with speed and quality in the SIP application delivery eKit. This complimentary eKit provides a collection of materials like articles, podcasts, webcasts, and demos to help you understand how to use IBM Rational software to model, code and test SIP-based applications.

Visit IBM developerWorks to download a free trial version of IBM Rational Team Concert, a member of the Rational Team Concert family of products built on the Jazz Technology Platform. Jazz is a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software lifecycle.

Participate in the open beta program for IBM Rational Quality Manager, a collaborative, web-based quality management solution for test planning, workflow control, and tracking and metrics reporting. Rational Quality Manager enables you to quantify how project decisions and deliverables impact and align with business objectives.

The IBM AIX operating system has kept to what's important: stability, functionality, robustness. And it has done it by keeping a strong command-line interface (CLI). If you never learned to use the CLI or need a refresher on its basics, read on.

A systems administrator always needs to be cognizant of system performance. This article drills down into the many aspects of tuning AIX to run Oracle. We'll look at the Virtual Memory Manager (VMM), CPU, Memory, and I/O (disk and network).

Download a free trial version of WebSphere Message Broker V6.1, an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) built for universal connectivity and transformation in heterogeneous IT environments.

Assigning disks from storage disks (IBM System Storage DS8000/DS6000) to an IBM AIX host using GUI is easy but time consuming. This article explains an easier and faster way of assigning disks. You can use the this procedure to automate the disk-assigning process.

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The IBM Enterprise Modernization sandbox for the IBM i environment is designed to help you quickly evaluate our latest products for modernizing and deploying core IBM i applications in a "tinker, test, and try" environment that lets you evaluate multiple products without downloading and installing them.

WPAR (Workload Partition) is a licensed program product shipped with IBM AIX 610. Tthis article teaches WPAR concepts and configurations. By following the examples in this article, you will be able to install and configure DB2 on a system and application WPAR.

Live Application Mobility is an important component of workload partitioning and provides for increased availability for workload partitions (WPARs). Simply put, it allows you to move WPARs from one logical partition (LPAR) to another while the WPARs are up and running. This article explores how and when to use Live Application Mobility and how to configure a system and its applications to run it.

Informix Dynamic Server offers outstanding online transaction processing (OLTP) database performance, while helping to simplify and automate many of the tasks associated with deploying databases for medium to enterprise business applications.

Have you ever wondered what Iused and %Iused mean in UNIX commands like df or what people are talking about when the say inode? UNIX and Linux systems both use inodes, and IBM AIX is no different. Discover what an inode is and why inodes are important to UNIX, the structure of an inode, and commands for working with inodes.

Use IBM Informix Dynamic Server Developer Edition for applications development and prototyping. Developer Edition is available free of charge, for development use only, with no time limits, and no support.

Threaded programming in Python can be done with a minimal amount of complexity by combining threads with Queues. This article explores using threads and queues together to create simple yet effective patterns for solving problems that require concurrency.

HACMP/XD uses PPRC mirroring technology to provide disaster recovery for critical applications' data. This involves collecting configuration data from the storage as well as from the cluster nodes; at times this can be tedious. This article shows you how, using pprc4hacmp, configuration data is generated automatically for HACMP/XD-PPRC.

The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) runs Linux®, but getting it to run well requires some tweaking. In this article, first in a series, Peter Seebach introduces the features and benefits of PS3 Linux, and explains some of the issues that might benefit from a bit of tweaking

Learn to make use of the Kerberos authentication tickets in the day-to-day network services on IBM AIX V6 and discover how Kerberos can be useful in getting rid of the password hassles for network service logons. This is another method towards achieving single sign on (SSO) on an AIX system network.