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IBM Rational Method Composer helps you deliver customized yet consistent process guidance to your project teams and IT organization, and includes the latest version of IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP), which has provided process guidance to teams since 1996.

nanoHUB is a virtual computing center created to support nanotechnology research. It uses open source components to achieve far more powerful results than previous remote access facilities. This article details specific configurations and enhancements necessary to make the most of the performance, security, and usability such common software as VNC and WebDAV provides.

Say “nevermore” to inexpressiveness and use Raven, a build platform built on top of Ruby, to build your Java applications. Learn about the other installments of Automation for the people for other Java technology techniques.

Part 3 of this series covers how to improve overall file system performance, how to tune your systems with the ioo command, and how to use the filemon and fileplace utilities.

If you have an environment with many AIX systems, then you know that installing, upgrading, and maintaining the software can take a considerable amount of time. The AIX Network Installation Manager can help you with installation and software maintenance in a client and server environment.

Diagnose and service memory overlays and address errors more efficiently with POWER6 processors and AIX Version 6.1. In the AIX operating system, software components share the kernel address, creating a serviceability issue for the AIX kernel and kernel extensions.

Modern software projects are no longer solely monolithic creations of single local project teams Now in its second generation, the Apache Maven build tool -- unlike legacy build tools created before the Internet-enabled era of global software development -- was designed from the ground up to take on these modern challenges. This tutorial gets you started with Maven 2.

Explore new ways to record UNIX logins and other system activities in a number of different logs, and take advantage of this information to monitor user usage. This can be helpful from a number of perspectives, either to use for chargeback reporting or just to get an idea of how busy and active individual users are on the system to help when planning and allocating resources.

This article wraps up this series on IBM diagnostic tooling for the Java platform by showing you how to build analyzers that will help you plumb the depths of your system dumps and fine-tune your Java code.

Learn why you need to secure access to your Java classes, how Spring creates and secures instances of your Java classes, and how to configure Acegi to incorporate class security in your Java applications.

A developer can use a tool such as WebSphere Portal Application Integrator and the Portlet Builder for Domino to simply pull information, build a more tightly integrated view using products, create a portlet that retrieves Domino data via a Web Service, or create the portlet from scratch using the Domino Portlet API. This tutorial provides an overview of each of these techniques and their pros and cons. Download the newest Domino clients.

This article provides more techniques for UNIX-based programmers who want to enhance their network throughput. Learn how to speed up processing at both the client and server using mmap, gathering scattered I/O, and other methods.

Learn how to use Rational Application Developer to build a Web application using data from a DB2 database, and publish your page to a WebSphere Application Server, all without writing any code. This tutorial takes you the next step: scaling your application to run in a business environment. Check out part 1 of the series as well.

Although Perl-based Web interfaces have limitations, Perl is one of the most commonly used Web development languages. UNIX users who have a programming background in shell scripting, Perl, or another language can breathe new life into Perl-based Web interfaces by using the Perl/Tk module.

The IBM Lock Analyzer for Java, available from alphaWorks, provides real-time lock monitoring on a running Java application. It highlights threads suffering from lock contention that could be hurting application performance. This article introduces the IBM Lock Analyzer for Java, explains the architecture on which it is built, and provides some thoughts about the tool's future direction.

Learn how you can extend IBM Rational Software Architect and leverage your own custom patterns to automate software design. By using a combination of the features, you can improve your productivity when designing SOA and other solutions.

Reduce the overhead of per-tick processing with a timer wheel algorithm that implements the retransmission timer. In this article, learn how to get lower granularity with your retransmission timer by using the AIX TCP fast timer, and discover other advantages of lower timer granularity.

The typical way of enabling multiple threads to share access to a mutable collection — synchronizing on access to the collection — can become a performance bottleneck. Learn a technique you can use in Java 5.0 and later to minimize this bottleneck for data structures that are read frequently but updated infrequently.

Experience the combined power of DB2 Query Patroller and DB2 Performance Expert. To further improve data server performance, these complementary tools have been bundled together to form the Performance Optimization feature of DB2 9. The contents of this eKit will teach you how the DB2 9 Performance Optimization feature for DB2 Linux, UNIX and Windows can help improve your performance, throughput, and response times.

Better testing starts with having the latest and smartest tools in the palm of your hand. With demos, Webcasts, articles and more, the eKit shows how to simplify and streamline test creation through automation, as well as hot to help maximize system performance, scalability and functionality.

People, process, information, reuse, and connectivity – five simple ways to get started with SOA. This SOA Sandbox makes it easy to learn about these entry points by providing a low-risk "tinker, test, and try" learning environment that's designed for enterprise architects, integration developers, and Web developers, but available to everyone.

Learn how to build a robust Web application using Rational Application Developer, DB2, and WebSphere Application Server in this two-part series.

The IBM Dump Analyzer for Java is a tool that performs basic analysis against a formatted system dump and produces a concise report indicating what it thinks your next course of action should be. Cut through endless dump files to get to the heart of the problem.

In this thirteenth installment of “Speaking UNIX” discover more shortcuts and power at the UNIX command line. From benefits of Shell or making better usage of your time, this article will teach you the secrets of the UNIX command-line wizards.

Download a free trial version of IBM Lotus Expeditor 6.1.1 toolkit to see how easily you can leverage your OSGi foundation and Eclipse platform skills to develop and extend composite applications to managed clients -- used online or offline.