As weird as it might sound, you are reading a book that was born almost accidentally. When we began to work on this material, we weren’t even thinking of writing a book. Our initial, quite unpretentious goal was to define a list of guidelines for internal use in Code Architects, the software company we founded in 2002.
Read the rest of this entry »

• 0 Comments

The new Google OneBox for Enterprise provides unified and secure access to an unlimited array of real-time information sources from inside or outside a company. Developed in partnership with some of the world’s leading enterprise applications vendors, Google OneBox for Enterprise provides fast, easy to use, and secure access to business information right from the search box. “OneBox” refers to the simple process of typing a query into Google.com to get specific information such as airline flight times, local weather, or stock prices. With OneBox for Enterprise, employees can use the same familiar technique to access information such as contact and calendar info, HR benefits, sales leads, or purchase order status.
Read the rest of this entry »

• 0 Comments

IBM® OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is an entry-level enterprise search software solution that is ready for primetime on your company’s intranet. Using OmniFind, you can index your intranet, allowing employees a robust and easy search solution so they can find what they’re looking for promptly. Learn how to use the OmniFind features, take advantage of its APIs, and integrate them into your own Web applications.
Read the rest of this entry »

• 0 Comments

It’s almost impossible today to be involved in web application design or development and not be aware of Ajax, a technology that includes but is not limited to Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. That’s because Ajax is currently the primary technique for driving the high responsiveness and interactivity of some of the most popular applications on the web such as Google Maps and Flickr. These applications are representative of a new generation of highly responsive, highly interactive web applications, referred to as Web 2.0 applications, that often involve users collaborating online and sharing content.
Read the rest of this entry »

• 0 Comments

There are many Sun Microsystems technologies that use Ajax [Ajax], and more than one way to use Ajax on mobile platforms. For example, applications written using the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, formerly known as J2EE) may generate XML, JSON [JSON], XHTML and/or ECMAScript destined for mobile browsers.
Read the rest of this entry »

• 0 Comments

Everybody is now talking about Web 2.0, a Web that is more dynamic, richer, more interactive, and, ultimately – much more exciting than anything we know now. It’s just human nature to look for unusual and new stuff. But, what does that mean for business applications?

Let’s look at Google Maps. Yes, we are all excited by Google Maps. It looks great. It is very interactive. And, most importantly, it behaves completely differently from what we expect to see in a “normal” browser. But, compared to any realistic business application – say something like trivial Internet banking – Google Maps is nothing. It supports just a few use cases compared to the hundreds or thousands of use cases for a typical business application.
Read the rest of this entry »

• 0 Comments

This document is written for application developers who want to build WebLogic Server e-commerce applications using the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) from Sun Microsystems. It is assumed that readers know Web technologies, object-oriented programming techniques, and the Java programming language.
Read the rest of this entry »

• 0 Comments

J2EE has been a staple of enterprise development for a long time. Whether you consider it bloated or difficult to work with, many enterprises have entrusted their mission-critical applications to the platform. There are many reasons for this - standards, vendor adoption, the number of frameworks, etc. Regardless of the reason, Nexaweb works seamlessly with the J2EE environment.
Read the rest of this entry »

• 0 Comments