(Laurence Moroney) There are many Java user interface toolkits. The most common, of course, are AWT and Swing, each of which has its advantages and drawbacks. Swing in particular, while it looks great, can be burdensome to develop and leads to large code footprints. As an example, Figure 1 shows a v
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IBM unwraps Tivoli tools for mainframes
(Ed Scannell) IBM bolstered its mainframe-based software strategy, rolling out an improved suite of Tivoli-based systems management tools to be part of an infrastructure management solution for its zSeries.
Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL AB
(Sean Michael Kerner) MySQL AB is a company on the way up. It leads the open source database world and continues to extend its reach further and further into the enterprise.
Oracle’s lineup of Online Seminars for March 2005
OracleDirect’s online seminars scheduled for March cover such topics as Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control, Oracle on Windows, Database Migration Headaches…and more.
Document Process Automation for Oracle/PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne: Inbound, Outbound, & Document Storage for Real-Time Information
Despite extensive automation, businesses continue to rely on paper. With paper comes costly, time-consuming and error-prone manual processes. Document Process Automation integrates paper and documents across business processes and ERP to reduce total cost of ownership. (R,pdf)
Program code searches with SPEED Ferret
(Barrie Sosinsky) SPEED Ferret is one of those little find and replace tools that can help programmers by reducing the time it takes to find the properties of objects, search for strings and find and replace program code. This is a global search and replace tool that takes the place of the sequentia
Microsoft Computing: Accessing iSeries Data with ODBC
(Chris Peters) This month, we take up the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) technology, the patriarch of Windows data communications.
A .NET Developer’s Guide to Windows Security: Understanding Ownership (Sample Chapter)
(Keith Brown) One of the most important components of ACL-based security in Windows is unfortunately also one of the most subtle and overlooked: ownership. Learn about ownership and its importance to security in this sample chapter.
Develop IBM Cloudscape and DB2 Universal Database applications with PHP
(Dan Scott) Learn how to configure IBM Cloudscape 10.0 and IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) Version 8.2 servers for access from PHP 4.x and PHP 5.x. Write database applications using the Unified ODBC extension. Overcome common performance issues due to scrollable cursors and avoid functional lim
PRB: ISQL Without -U Parameter Uses Network User Name
The command line utility ISQL.EXE uses the currently logged in network user name for the SQL Server login name if the -U parameter is omitted or is specified without a name after the parameter instead of passing null. This may cause the error 4002, ‘Login Failed’ when connecting to SQL Server in