Within today's vast Web infrastructure businesses run distributed systems. These distributed systems serve an array of content, more often than not in a web descriptive form such as HTML. The challenge for client-side Java applications is to display this rich Web content in a meaningfu...

Since 2000, I've had the good fortune of working with over 15,000 EV1Servers customers, including enterprise managers and small business owners, software developers and multi-player gamers, content providers and community forum operators. Ongoing interactions with these dedicated Web s...

There must be 50 ways to Web services-enable a legacy system, and at least 500 ways for consultants to make money off companies attempting to do so. While I don't mean to knock the consulting profession (I am one myself, after all), there are some things companies should be able to do ...

Steve Jones is the managing director for engineering and support at PointBase. He is responsible for PointBase product development, which includes an innovative family of 100% Java, SQL Relational Database Management (RDBMS), and Synchronization products that are ideal for embedding in...

It's a fact of life: different developers like to write code in different styles. Show me code written by 10 different developers, and I will show you 10 different coding styles. So why try to develop and enforce coding standards? There are two core reasons: Adopting a set of coding st...

Imagine sitting at a computer and controlling the physical operations of a building that's located miles away. Like something out of a James Bond movie, you can unlock/lock and open/close doors, adjust the temperature in the building control the building's security, and even adjust ai...

In today's IT environment, complex data represents an ever-increasing proportion of enterprise data. Companies are struggling to transform and integrate complex data and often turn to costly IT development. Business drivers, such as customer self-service, regulatory compliance (e.g., S...

Open source has gained broad acceptance among enterprises as a reliable source of infrastructure software. The Linux operating system and the Apache Web server are only two examples of open source technologies that are depended upon to power the world's mission-critical servers and web...

Evaluating the state of IT security and associated market statistics, it is apparent that traditional operating environments have not consistently provided acceptable levels of security to enterprise computing. Security-related exposures, liabilities, and losses are rapidly increasing,...

Challenges of Building Web Pages from XML Data in XSL Technology Developing professional Web pages based on XML data using XSL has historically been a time-consuming and expensive task due to the following challenges: Basic knowledge of XSL is insufficient for implementing fully-featur...