Vol: 2 Iss: 11 Read back Issues

Breathing New Life into Legacy Systems - Web services as an API The technology world is abuzz with talk of Web services. Code warriors and suits alike are touting it as the next big thing. The incorruptible Apache Software Foundation has spawned a whole top-level project dedicated to it. Nov. 24, 2003  Reads: 15,070

One Access Point to Rule Them All - Front Controller pattern simplifies integration challenges The concept of a central point of access to an application or set of applications is not new. For more than 30 years, companies have been writing, enhancing, and maintaining applications written to transactional systems such as CICS... Nov. 24, 2003  Reads: 15,253

Managing the WebSphere Platform - Getting an end-to-end view of your applications Your applications have just gone through a reasonably in-depth testing cycle, and now they are finally deployed in your WebSphere production environment. Great! So now I wonder... what about your WebSphere business processes? Nov. 24, 2003  Reads: 10,603

Understanding Straight-Through Processing - A technical overview Straight-Through Processing (STP) is a term associated with workflow and business process management technologies. STP is the automation of a process flow, from invocation to execution. Nov. 24, 2003  Reads: 19,497  Replies: 2

Implementing J2EE/.NET Interoperability Using WebSphere MQ Part 2 - Putting theory into practice In Part 1 of this series, we discussed how the use of messaging software can alleviate some of the problems with integration of J2EE and .NET environments using Web services. In this article we will discuss implementation of the p... Nov. 24, 2003  Reads: 23,810  Replies: 2

Teamwork in WebSphere Studio - Software configuration management makes it easy So what does teamwork in WebSphere Studio mean anyway? At one level it means being able to work on code within a shared environment through which your application can be executed and tested. Nov. 24, 2003  Reads: 12,227

Best Practices for Using XSLT in WAS Applications - Use of XSL offers many strategic advantages XSLT (eXtended Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a very powerful and flexible tool in the XML technology arsenal for transforming XML documents into HTML, plain text, or different XML representations. Nov. 24, 2003  Reads: 13,907

Getting a Handle on Your Customers - The better you know your customers, the more you can sell them Customer online behavior changes all the time. What customers do on your site tomorrow may be different from what they do today. Nov. 24, 2003  Reads: 9,174

Outsourcing: Magic Bullet or Dirty Word? It All Depends on Your Perspective In the world of IT, outsourcing is either the dirtiest word you can utter or a brilliant one; it's all about who says it to whom and where it is said. Nov. 24, 2003  Reads: 10,983  Replies: 7

On Protecting U.S. IT Jobs As a closing thought, let's consider our jobs and how to protect them. There is a lot of instability in today's software industry, and the American sector is losing its competitive edge. Nov. 24, 2003  Reads: 24,038