THE WORLD'S TOP IT SOLUTION PROVIDERS ( Issue: 2 )

JadeLiquid Software / WebRenderer: Seamlessly Displaying Web Content Within Your Java Application

Tue, 31 May 2005 14:15:00 EDT

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 meaningful way. Java does not have a standards-compliant Web content rendering engine built into the J2SE SDK. This poses a challenge for Java developers with a requirement to display rich Web content. Java rich-client application developers are forced to use the built-in system browser external to their rich-client application when displaying Web content (due to a lack of means to display Web content).

EV1 Servers: Four Steps to Web Hosting Success

Thu, 26 May 2005 09:00:00 EDT

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 server users have helped shape our direction. I would like to think that we have also contributed to our customers' success. Many of them have expanded from one single server to dozens - or even hundreds - during the course of our partnership. I have often heard that Web hosting is a commodity business in which three factors - pricing, bandwidth and disk space - are all-important.

FusionWare: Reducing Complexity Through FusionWare Integration Server

Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

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 on their own. That includes extending new data sources to applications, or bringing on new electronic trading partners. I've heard accounts of companies taking up to six months trying to agree on formats and protocols before exchanging purchase orders and acknowledgements - an exercise that must have put many a consultant's child through college.

PointBase: J2EE Development with PointBase Embedded

Mon, 06 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

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 a wide range of applications. Because they are all Java, they are highly portable. Here, he talks about the need for embedded products and what they can do. Can you briefly describe the reason PointBase exists in the market today? Where did DataMirror see a need for this type of offering?

Enerjy Software: Why Coding Standards?

Sat, 04 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

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 standards makes it easier for developers to read and understand each other's code. Although peer review is not the norm in every development shop, almost everyone has to maintain - or, at least, step through - code written by someone else.

NetOp Remote Control Enables Building Automation

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

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 air pressure in the building; all at the push of a button. Control Installations of Iowa (CP3) does just that. By engineering a graphical user interface based off a building blueprints, employees at CI3 monitor and control their client's buildings on a daily basis.

Itemfield: Defining the Benchmark for Complex Data Transformations

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:00:00 EDT

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., Sarbanes-Oxley), operational and IT efficiency require high-performance, mission-critical applications that exploit real-time data transformations between a variety of complex data formats. The challenge of complex data transformation is the ability to address the diversity of very complicated, poorly defined or undefined data formats used by applications.

Simplifying Java Development with Gluecode SE

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:00:00 EDT

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 sites. Even as open source continues to proliferate up the technology stack, it remains difficult to make the most of what open source has to offer.Developers face an overwhelming choice, since there are literally thousands of open source projects to choose from.

Global Knowledge: Why Open Source Software Can Help Create a More Secure IT Infrastructure

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:00:00 EDT

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, while conventional computing (hardware, system software, and network bandwidth) costs are all decreasing strongly year over year. Most of the operating environment vendors do not embrace a holistic approach to security - it is clearly an afterthought. There are major systemic flaws in their approach to security - and users are suffering the consequences every day.

Promind Systems' XSL Maker:Complete Toolset for Building Web Pages from XML Data with XSL & CSS

Wed, 26 May 2004 09:00:00 EDT

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-featured Web pages Hand-coding in XSL is very time-consuming Existing XSL code editor and mapper products are not sufficient for building professional-grade Web pages No XSL tools support both XSL and CSS In XSL it is very difficult to incorporate other Web languages such as JavaScript, Struts, VBScript, Php, ASP etc that are necessary to build fully-featured professional Web pages These complexities are exponentially compounded when Web pages need to perform advanced operations such as: joining content from multiple XML sources; reading live XML/RSS feeds; and including other Web pages XSLmaker was developed to overcome these challenges to the widespread realization of the significant benefits of Web pages based on XML. XSLmaker is a development environment that integrates all of the components required to develop fully-featured Web pages using XSL.