Online chat solutions have been very popular long before AJAX was born. There are numerous reasons for this popularity, and you’re probably familiar with them if you’ve ever used an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client, or an Instant Messenger (IM) program, or a Java chat applet. AJAX has pushed online chat solutions forward by making it easy to implement features that are causing trouble or are harder to implement with other technologies. First of all, an AJAX chat application inherits all the typical AJAX benefits, such as integration with existing browser features, and (if written well) cross-platform compatibility.
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Businesses currently face the daily challenge of managing content efficiently. These businesses are being flooded with information from web Content Management Systems (CMS) that present an all-too-simple picture. Instead, content management systems should solve the problem of turning content into information and information into knowledge.

Content Management Systems are not just a product or a technology. CMS is defined as a generic term which refers to a wide range of processes that underpin the “next-generation” of medium to large-scale websites. Content management is a process which deals with the creation, storage, modification, retrieval and display of data or content.
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This book shows you how to write programs for the MRG Messaging component of the Red Hat Enterprise MRG distributed computing platforming using the Apache Qpid API. It also gives basic information on downloading and installing MRG Messaging. For more complete information on how to download and install MRG Messaging see the MRG Messaging Installation Guide.
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Application server platforms are the most important category of application platform software for most enterprises. An application server platform is infrastructure software for building Web and composite applications and, increasingly, applications based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) design principles. An application server platform integrates an application server, which manages user requests, data access, and business logic, with portal servers and integration/business process management (BPM) servers — and often additional features, as well.
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Web services, an emerging paradigm for architecting and implementing business collaborations within and across organizational boundaries, are currently of interest to both software vendors and scientists. In this paradigm, the functionality provided by business applications is encapsulated within web services: software components described at a semantic level, which can be invoked by application programs or by other services through a stack of Internet standards including HTTP, XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI [3,18]. Once deployed, web services provided by various organizations can be inter-connected in order to implement business collaborations, leading to composite web services.
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Virtual Observatory (VO) is a collection of interoperating data archives and software tools. Taking advantages of the latest information technologies, it aims to provide a data-intensively online research environment for astronomers all around the world. A large number of high-qualified astronomical software packages and libraries are powerful and easy of use, and have been widely used by astronomers for many years. Integrating those toolkits into the VO system is a necessary and important task for the VO developers.
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Originally developed by Object Technology International (OTI) and purchased by IBM for use by internal developers
Released to open-source community in 2001, managed by consortium
Eclipse Public License (EPL)
Based on IBM Common Public License (CPL) Consortium reorganized into independent not-for-profit corporation, the Eclipse Foundation, in early 2004
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RealObjects PDFreactor is a powerful formatting processor that enables server-side PDF creation from XML and XHTML/HTML documents using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define page layout and styles. You can dynamically generate PDF documents such as reports, invoices, statements and others on-the-fly. Since PDFreactor runs on your server, the end-user does not need any software other than a Web browser with a free PDF viewer.
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