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Set up a PHP Web interface for the Java business application using a database created in earlier in this series. The PHP Web interface collects information from users and sends the session data to the Java business application for processing and for a response.

This final part, Part 3, shows you how to monitor network packets The series also offers best practices for network I/O performance tuning. For the previous sections Part 1 and Part 2 and to learn more regarding how to optimize your AIX 5L.

Safeguard your data with the Encrypted File System (EFS), a new AIX 6.1 security feature, and get a comprehensive picture on the configuration of EFS and its usage. EFS can store the content of a file in an encrypted format at the file system level. If you’re new to EFS, this article is a good starting point for reviewing the need for EFS, its features, and most commonly used commands.

This tutorial series covers how to get started with Java Server Faces (JSF) technology, a server-side framework that offers a component-based approach to Web user-interface development. Part 1 gets you started with a JSF 1.2 overview and a basic application. This sequel gives you a firm grasp of JSF's more-advanced features: custom validators, converters, and phase listeners. Along the way you'll gain an understanding of the JSF application life cycle.

Download a free trial version of IBM Rational Developer for System z, software that can help you deliver core development capabilities; the power of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE); and rapid application development support to diverse enterprise application development teams.

Regression testing -- in which code is thoroughly tested to ensure that changes have not produced unexpected results -- is an important part of any development process. In this tutorial, you'll learn how the Rational Functional Tester Extension for Terminal-Based Applications works with other Rational Functional Tester to help test terminal-based applications quickly and easily.

The Java platform has historically been the province of object-oriented programming, but even Java language stalwarts are starting to pay attention to the latest old-is-new trend in application development: functional programming. Get introduced to Scala, a programming language that combines functional and object-oriented techniques for the JVM.

Look beyond tools like SpamAssassin and Amavis to see how you can extend them and provide additional filtering facilities to lower the amount of spam hitting the e-mail boxes of your users. Most companies use spam and virus filtering services on their UNIX platforms, but there are some methods that you can use that help improve your filtering scores and might even eliminate spam reaching inboxes.

The series offers best practices for network I/O performance tuning. You'll learn about monitoring utilities such as nfsstat and nmon, and you'll also tune with nfso. Check out Part 1 of the series and get the tools you need.

Learn how Rational Build Forge can extend a simple compile and package build process by adding customization and deployment capability. Go from a manual method to automating: checking for code changes; getting the latest source; compiling and packaging; customizing; copying to and restarting a deployment server; and sending e-mail notification that a new version is available.

Learn how to implement a build management system that uses and extends your existing automation technologies. This tutorial shows, step-by-step, how to install and configure IBM Rational Build Forge to manage builds for Jakarta Tomcat from source code.

JavaFX Script, which made its debut last spring, is a scripting language that runs on top of Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 and makes it easy to code sophisticated user interfaces. Learn the essentials of the JavaFX scripting language and gain an understanding of some basic UI components with the help of the sample application detailed within.

Use this dynamic tracing facility for performance analysis as well as for debugging problems. A probe is a software mechanism that interrupts normal system action to investigate and obtain information about current context and system state.

Java programmers needn't abandon their favorite language and existing development infrastructure to adopt a modern Web development framework. In the first installment of his new monthly series Get started with Grails, get introduced to Grails and demonstrates how to build your first Grails application.

Set up a PHP Web interface for the Java business application using a database created in earlier in this series. The PHP Web interface collects information from users and sends the session data to the Java business application for processing and for a response.

The new Rational Build Forge Express eKit provides you with valuable resources – including a case study, podcast, demo, and articles – to help you increase staff productivity, compress development cycles and deliver better software, fast.

Automated builds aren't just for development teams — they can be extended to facilitate moving software from development all the way into production. Learn how to use Ant with Java Secure Channel for remotely deploying software into multiple target environments.

In this tutorial, learn how to configure an inter-realm setup between IBM Network Authentication Service (IBM NAS) and Microsoft Active Directory for AIX Network File System (NFS) Version 4.

Go through detailed information on how the AIX virtual memory manager works and how to use tunable parameters to adjust the operation of the AIX VMM. The operation of the AIX VMM is critical to the performance of a system, and it also provides several tunable parameters that you can use to optimize its operation for different workloads.

Visit IBM developerWorks to download a free trial of the latest release of IBM Lotus Sametime Standard V8.0. Lotus Sametime Standard V8.0 is a platform for unified communications and collaboration that combines security features with an extensible, open solution.

DB2 Express-C is production-ready and free to use for development and deployment. ISVs and business partners may also distribute DB2 Express-C at no charge with their solutions.

The SOA Sandbox for connectivity focuses on providing a trial environment with the necessary tooling and components required to explore how to effectively connect your infrastructure, integrate all of the people, processes and information in your company.

This tutorial is more than a cookbook. It clearly explains the monitoring capabilities, defines choices you can make, and guides you through successful completion of the primary tasks. Using this guidance gives you get a deeper understanding of how you can use Business Monitor in your own environment.

Java developers can get a lot of mileage out of storing objects directly in an object-oriented database like db4o. Learn how db4o handles three concerns central to Java enterprise development: transactions, distributed data management, and Web application security.

This article provides an overview of the major classes in the package, demonstrates how to use them to create a façade for compiling Java source from Java Strings instead of files, and then uses this façade to build an interactive plotting application.