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December 2006

Why StAX'ing up XML is the new Java Standard

In Part 1 - An introduction to StAX you can learn about how StAX has become the latest standard for processing XML in the Java language. This article is very popular and has recieved 305 diggs thus far. Part 2 of StAX'ing up XML, you can delve deeper into the event iterator-based API and explore its benefits to Java developers. In the final article of the 3 Part series, you'll see how to create custom event classes and use them to process XML with the event iterator-based API.

WebSphere Guru shares how to building AJAX apps

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WebSphere Master Roland Barcia answers questions on building Web 2.0 applications with AJAX technologies on WebSphere. Topics range from popular data transport forms (such as REST, JSON-RPC, and SOAP), tooling (such as the Eclipse AJAX Toolkit and Rational tools), or AJAX toolkits (such as the Dojo Toolkit and DWR). He also discusses how AJAX technologies integrate with IBM's SOA platforms.

November 2006

Try Lotus Domino Ajax instant messaging

Learn how the power of IBM Lotus Domino and Ajax can add awareness to your Domino Web applications. One reason we love this technique is that it doesn’t load Microsoft ActiveX controls, instantiate a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) instance, or require a flash animation player. It is a lightweight, low-tech solution for most clients.

MochiKit feels like Python but delivers high-level JavaScript

MochiKit takes its main inspiration from Python, and from the many conveniences the Python standard library offers; but on the side it also smooths over the inconsistencies among browser versions. MochiKit.DOM is a particularly handy component that lets you work with DOM objects in much friendlier ways than raw"JavaScript provides. A lot of MochiKit.DOM is customized for XHTML work, which possibly makes its use of XHTML wrapped microformats particularly convenient when combining MochiKit and Ajax.

Should you use Ajax in your IT applications?

The newness of the Ajax/REST architectural style presents challenges to IT organizations. A technology like Ajax is more or less useful only insofar as an organization can apply it to solve a particular problem or to fulfill a particular need. This article, will help you decide if you should use Ajax in real IT applications, and it aims to improve your chances of success with Ajax development.

Port MySQL PHP applications to the DB2 on i5/OS

This Article includes information about what types of architectures exist for PHP, how to install PHP, how to use the DB2 database with PHP on the i5/OS (including examples of three specific PHP applications), and how to Migrating PHP applications from MySQL to DB2 on System i.

Why people became IT architects

IT architects usually have a common love for new experiences, and new knowledge.They often may be considered rogues, but one thing is for sure, they all seem to be having a wonderful time! Find out why they do what they do and how they got where they are. Explore the twists and turns of their professional journeys that led them to the world of IT architecture. Maybe you'll find that becoming an IT architect is right for you.

The Mother of all Mashups

This tutorial series shows you how to build the Ultimate Mashup that has more Bells and Whistles that you could ever imagine.

Simple Xalan extension functions: Mixing Java with XSLT

The Xalan XSLT processor can invoke almost any method in almost any Java class in the classpath. Doing so can improve performance, provide features like trigonometric functions that aren't available in XSLT, perform file I/O, talk to databases and network servers, or implement algorithms that are easy to write in the Java language but hard to write in XSLT. Learn the basics of invoking Java code from Xalan.

Master Ajax using XML in requests and responses

The more you learn about the technologies around Ajax, the more careful you have to be about your decisions. When you realize that there's no standard way for a server to respond to clients with name/value pairs, the reasoning behind using XML becomes pretty clear. This article shows you the pluses when your server sends XML back to a client.

October 2006

Chop up del.icio.us RSS feeds the way you want it

The combination of open, flexible Web APIs and content uploaded by users and maintained in user networks is the true 2.0 of Web 2.0. In this article, you'll learn how to use the Amara XML Toolkit to download and parse the del.icio.us RSS feeds and JSON, Python and Javascript to incorporate only what you want into your own Web site.

Mainframe 2.0 concepts for Java developers

The mainframe is cool again. Some are even speculating that a rebirth is occurring and are talking about Mainframe 2.0. One reason for the eyes wide open reaction for the mainframe is the support for many of the most modern open protocols. Take a look at Mainframe 2.0 innovations and see how to deploy a Java application on the new Big Iron.

Build Ajax fuctions without Javascript coding

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Get familiar with the Sun Ajax4jsf open source framework, which adds Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) capabilities to JSF applications without having to write any JavaScript code. This tutorial will show you how to build an Apache Geronimo applications using JavaServer Faces and Ajax functionality with Ajax4jsf.

Remove the smell from your build scripts

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Smelly code will surely cost you valuable time. How much time do you spend maintaining project build scripts? Probably much more than you'd expect or would like to admit. This article shows you how to improve a number of common build practices to create consistent, repeatable, and maintainable builds. Knock the stink off those scripts.

SimpleXML processing with PHP

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The SimpleXML extension, which is bundled with PHP version 5, enables PHP pages to query, search, modify, and republish XML in a PHP-friendly syntax. It's a useful addition to the PHP programmer's toolkit and can be a reliable and robust means of processing XML from within PHP.

September 2006

A step-by-step demonstration of using RSS and Atom

The oldschool way of manually managing e-mail subscribers, and publishing the news on your website doesn't cut it anymore. This article shows you the modern way with a step-by-step demonstration of implementing a general news publication architecture using RSS and Atom syndication formats. This will diffinetly ease the process, minimize human error and streamline the approach to news feeds.

Get started coding with GAWK and AWK

Learn the basic concepts of the AWK text-processing and pattern-scanning language. This tutorial gets you started programming in AWK: You'll learn how AWK reads and sorts its input data, run AWK programs, manipulate data, and perform complex pattern matching. When you're finished, you'll also understand GNU AWK (GAWK).

Using Spring and Hibernate with WebSphere

Hibernate is an open source persistence framework for Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs), and Spring uses dependency injection (DI) and Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) to simplify and smooth the transitions from development to testing to production. Both open source projects are gaing more and more popularity with developers. This article explains how to configure these frameworks for various scenarios with WebSphere Application Server.

You won't be new to XML after this

XML provides you with a great deal of functionality and power, but fortunately it is itself a fairly simple and straightforward technology. This excellent XML resource page puts all the good XML article links together to get you going. It covers XML for programmers such as XML and Javascript, Ajax, mashups, Ruby, Java, PHP, Perl, or Python, as well various uses that do not involve programming, such as RSS, XForms, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and wireless XHTML technologies.

Building your first application with Spring Framework

Learn how to create a simple application on Apache Geronimo using the Spring Framework, a layered Java Platform, Java EE and J2EE application framework. Besides leaning how to develop, configure, and deploy your first application based on the Spring Framework, you'll also see how Geronimo's Web Console simplifies deploying and managing Web applications.

Presenting source code text in the Eclipse CDT

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Text presentation is an important advantage of C/C++ Development Tooling. The clear, multicolored display makes it easy to read and navigate through code. Understanding how this works is crucial. Discover how the Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling (CDT) text editor events works best for you.

June 2006

Developing PHP the Ajax way

This article will show you how to speed up PHP application development using the Simple Ajax Toolkit (Sajax).

May 2006

Devise Web 2.0 applications with PHP and DHTML

This article explains, with easy to understand examples, just how to get coding quickly.

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