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Buttons, Menus, and Toolbars in Ext JS

by Colin Ramsay Shea Frederick Steve 'Cutter' Blades | June 2009 | AJAX Open Source

The unsung heroes of every application are the simple things like buttons, menus, and toolbars. In this article by Shea Frederick, Steve 'Cutter' Blades, and Colin Ramsay, we will cover how to add these items to our applications.

Our example will contain a few different types of buttons, both with and without menus. A button can simply be an icon, or text, or both. Toolbars also have some mechanical elements such as spacers and dividers that can help to organize the buttons on your toolbars items.

We will also cover how to make these elements react to user interaction.

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Business Rules Management, BPM, and SOA

by Kapil Pant | November 2009 | BPEL SOA Web Services Oracle

This article by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant, will discuss the details of Business Rules Management from the perspective of its relationship with BPM and SOA, and how it adds value to a business.

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Business Processes with BPEL

by Marcel Krizevnik Matjaz B. Juric | September 2010 | BPEL Enterprise Articles SOA Oracle

In this article, by Matjaz B. Juric & Marcel Krizevnik, authors of WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g, we will demonstrate how business processes are described with BPEL and define a simple business process for business travels.

We will specifically cover the following topics:

BPEL business process example
Involved services
Employee Travel Status service
Airline service
WSDL for the BPEL process
Partner link types
Business process definition
BPEL process outline
Partner links
Variables for the Travel Process
BPEL process main body
Asynchronous BPEL example
Modify the BPEL Process WSDL
Modify partner link types
Modify the BPEL process definition

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Business Process Orchestration for SOA

by Kapil Pant | November 2009 | BPEL SOA Web Services Oracle

This article by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant, covers process orchestration and execution using process engines such as Oracle's BPEL Process Manager.

In this article we will learn:

BPM Architecture and Role of Business Process Orchestration
Executing BPEL Processes in BPEL Process Manager

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Business Process Modeling

by Kapil Pant | August 2008 | BPEL SOA Web Services Oracle

A business process is a set of coordinated activities that are performed either by humans or by tools with an objective to realize a certain business result. The order of these activities and the efficiency of those who perform the activities determine the overall performance of a business process. It is very much in the interest of every company to have business processes that are efficient and include only necessary activities, because this will allow them to work faster and more efficiently. In this article by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant, we will look at business process modeling, the main objective of which is to develop a process model that defines the existing process flow in detail.

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Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse Solution - Architecture and Design

by John Heaton | July 2012 | Cookbooks Oracle

Setting the foundation of your business intelligence and data warehouse solution is key to the project. By making specific architecture and design decisions, you will be required to build the solution in a particular way. It is essential to understand some of the different architectural options and how they will affect your design, before you begin the development effort.

Making a mistake at the architecture and design stage of the project will have many ramifications in the form of rework and additional time, cost, and expense. Business intelligence and data warehouse projects have been around for many years, and there is a wealth of best practice information available, which is a great place to begin your project.

In this article by John Heaton, author of Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology, we will review some of the key architecture and design issues that should be addressed by the project. Specifically, we will cover:

Choosing your database type
Defining your database layout
Selecting the Third Normal Form or a Dimensional model

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Business Blogging On The Up - Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008

by Paul Thewlis | October 2008 | MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP WordPress

"Technorati recently published its annual report, State of the Blogosphere 2008. As usual, it makes interesting reading, especially for those of us interested in business blogging.

The report shows that Technorati has indexed 133 million blogs since 2002. 1.5 million blogs have been updated in the last 7 days and 7.4 million in the last 120 days. These figures support my argument in the first chapter of my book, WordPress For Business Bloggers, that business bloggers should not be put off by the total number of blogs out there because, in fact, only a small proportion are active."

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by | May 2011 |

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Bundle Offer On Other Microsoft Books From Packt

by | February 2011 |

Packt is pleased to announce a special offer on all Enterprise eBooks. Now you can purchase any 4 Enterprise eBooks at an unbelievable price of just $75/ £48/ €57.