Using Sun Labs’ Brazil server as your starting point Developing consistent, reliable Web applications that interface with such different devices as home networks, home automation systems, and realtime telemetry devices can be vastly simplified by treating devices as URLs. The…
Informix’s i.Sell WAP personalizes wireless market Informix expanded its i.Sell offerings by adding an i.Sell WAP module for Sun Microsystems’ Solaris operating environment. With the i.Sell WAP product, which makes use of the Wireless Applications Protocol (WAP), customers can use…
How do you convert XML to HTML on the server side? Q: I want to generate XML-based pages using the XSL on the server side so that the client gets plain HTML, rather than the XML plus an XSL page.…
FrontMind 2.0 personalizes online efforts Manna has enhanced its FrontMind e-marketing software with new capabilities that allow organizations to evaluate online efforts prior to deployment with ROI reporting and upfront simulation abilities. FrontMind 2.0 allows marketers to customize and personalize…
Find out the latest steps towards the development of the Advanced Encryption Standard, the next-generation standard for private-key cryptography The Data Encryption Standard (DES) boasts nearly universal acceptance today, with only a few exceptions. Government communications, bank electronic funds transfers,…
The InfoWorld Test Center reviews the Java-based ArgoUML UML modeling solution For companies that are just getting started with UML (the Unified Modeling Language, a method of visually depicting business processes), the range of diagram types, semantics, and notation can…
The final steps to coding branching logic without nested ifs In Part 1 of this article, I introduced the if-then-else framework, a single-package framework that makes it relatively easy to code branching logic without nested ifs, in a maintainable form.…
Learn computer security concepts and terms in this introductory overview Computing models have changed drastically in the last few decades, and with the changes has come a greater need for application security in large-scale ecommerce and ebusiness systems, as the…
Use Java’s multiple-layer security implementation to protect your Web Web security can be defined in various ways, depending on individual points of view. The main focus of security in this article is the safety of applications developed and deployed for…
Can the compressed data length be longer than the uncompressed data Q: I am working on a highly secure application and need to compress data such as string and byte arrays. I am using the java.util.zip.* classes, but I am…