I like your type: Describe and invoke Web services based on service type
WSDL tools and techniques My previous Web Services column focused on describing a Web service according to business classifications or geographic regions—categories meaningful to business professionals or administrators. In this article, I focus on describing a Web service according to…
Reports made easy with JasperReports
The open source JasperReports uses XML templates for your reporting needs Generating reports is a common, if not always glamorous, task for programmers. In the past, report generation has largely been the domain of large commercial products such as Crystal…
Manage your software with the Java Product Versioning Specification
An introduction to component versioning with Java Many of us are familiar with how to find version information in Windows-like applications. At startup, we’re often greeted with a splash screen that identifies the vendor, the product name, and usually its…
Transform data into Web applications with Cocoon
Use Java to implement logic in Cocoon You might have heard some of the recent buzz about Cocoon from the Apache Software Foundation. Now in its third year of development, Cocoon has gradually matured from a simple XSL (Extensible Stylesheet…
Publish and find UDDI tModels with JAXR and WSDL
Work with WSDL, JAXR, and UDDI Imagine you are a travel agent and frequently book cruise ship vacations. To offer your customers choice, you must maintain an up-to-date list of exotic destinations. In the past, you could have gathered this…
Boosting visibility
Metrics Builder puts business users in control of BI data — at a price See correction below IDEALLY, BUSINESS MANAGERS should be able to analyze company performance without having to first call in a SWAT team of programmers and DBAs.…
Building toward BPM
Technological hurdles to enterprisewide performance analytics are many IN THE SCRAMBLE to bring accountability and profitability back to the corporate world, BPM (business performance management) is gaining momentum in the BI (business intelligence) world. The basic idea is to tie…
Sybase announces availability of PowerDesigner 9.5 tool
SYBASE THIS WEEK announced availability of PowerDesigner 9.5, a new version of its modeling and design tool that supports multiple modeling techniques within one graphical environment. Version 9.5 features a business process model allowing business owners and IT staff to…
Managing data the XML way
XML documents, and the ability to transform them, are vital to the business Web The XPath and XSLT techniques I mentioned last week will become as fundamental to this generation of developers as SQL was to the last. Likewise XQuery,…
EMC manages your data
CTO Mark Lewis discusses the state of the storage market and the importance of protecting data EMC IS A leader in the field of storing and managing information, and Mark Lewis, executive vice president of new ventures and CTO, believes…
