Using Oracle Service Bus Console

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 learn:

• Creating a project and importing resources from OSR
• Configuring a business service
• Testing a business service
• Creating an Alert destination
• Creating a proxy service
• Testing a proxy service
• Publishing a proxy service to the Oracle Service Registry
• Re-wiring an SOA composite application
• Oracle Service Bus use case

Using Moodle to integrate a Foreign Language Course in Secondary School

The article by Mariella Proietta, aims to plan teaching and learning English as a foreign language. It discusses how to go about using the material available in the secondary school language textbook, to test Moodle as an E-learning platform in blended mode, and support rather than substitute the conventional class activities. Moodle can be used to integrate a school course for young people, with online activities that help them to increase their foreign language proficiency and also their competence in ICT(Information and Communication Technology). Most foreign language courses in secondary schools are supported by textbooks that provide plenty of audio material like audio-cassettes, CDs and even CD ROMs, but students seem quite reluctant to use these tools at home. The idea here is to take the advantage of Moodle E-learning environment to enrich the learning process, through a more complete exploitation of the teaching resources, contents and other the aids connected with the textbook chosen.

Using Location in your iOS Apps – Core Location

The Core Location framework in the iOS SDK is an asynchronous API that uses delegation to report location information from the iOS device. Along with location information, Core Location also reports the Heading information (Heading here implies the direction in which a device is pointed), as well as allowing you to define geographic regions and monitor when you cross those regional boundaries.

Using jQuery Script for Creating Dynamic Table of Contents

This article by Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer, shows the basic categories of jQuery methods, and how they come into play within a jQuery script. To examine how the different aspects of jQuery are utilized, we will build a small script that will dynamically extract the headings from an HTML document and assemble them into a table of contents for that page.

Using JavaScript Effects with Joomla!

Although Joomla! has all of the basic content management tools you need to build a website, it is also designed to run custom-built extensions written in PHP. This article steps through working examples of PHP code written to work seamlessly in Joomla!. Modern websites use JavaScript-driven effects to aid navigation, reduce on-screen clutter, and provide interactive features that are not possible with static HTML.

Joomla! has several built-in elements that you can use without writing a single line of JavaScript. The MooTools framework powers many elements seen throughout the Joomla! backend UI; these can be reused in both the frontend and the backend of your Joomla! component. In this article by Joseph L. LeBlanc, we will learn to use JavaScript effects through these topics:

• Customizing Google Maps

Using JavaScript and jQuery in Drupal Themes

Until a few years ago, mentioning the word JavaScript to a themer would usually result in groans about inconsistencies in browser support, lack of standards, difficulty in debugging, and a myriad of other complaints. Thankfully, however, things have changed considerably since then. Browsers have evolved and standards have improved. JavaScript is now a potent weapon in any themer's armory and this is especially true with the introduction of cross-browser libraries and frameworks which address most of the aforementioned issues with it.

In this article by Karthik Kumar, author of the book Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook, we will be covering the following recipes:

• Including JavaScript files from a theme
• Including a JavaScript file only for certain pages
• Giving the username textfield keyboard focus

Using Groovy Closures Instead of Template Method

A good software developer always keeps the DRY principle in mind. Whenever code is duplicated, maintainability problems are introduced and the code base becomes difficult to understand. Java developers often rely on the template method pattern to reuse code. Groovy's closure programming concept is an alternative way to solve similar problems. Closures provide a concise way to pass around code without the ceremony involved with design patterns. This article by Nirav Assar will demonstrate how closures are used to embrace the DRY principle.

Using Flowplayer in Plone 3

This article series by Tom Gross, author of Plone 3 Multimedia, explains how to add audio content to Plone and enhance its features with Plone4Artists products. It also shows how to include audio data in HTML with plugins and Flash.

There are at least four use cases when we think of integrating audio in a web application:

1. We want to provide an audio database with static files for download.
2. We have audio that we want to have streamed to the Internet (for example, as a podcast).
3. We want a audio file/live show streamed to the Internet as an Internet radio service.
4. We want some sound to be played when the site is loaded or shown.

In this article we will discuss three of the four cases. The streaming support is limited to use case 2. We can stream to one client like a podcast does, but not to many clients at once like an Internet Radio does. We need special software such as Icecast or SHOUTcast for this purpose. Further, we will investigate how we solve use cases 1, 2, and 3 with the Plone CMS and extensions. Technically, these are the topics covered in this article:

• Manipulation of audio content stored as File content in Plone
• The different formats used for the binary storage of audio data
• Storing and accessing MP3 audio metadata with the ID3 tag format
• Managing metadata, formats, and playlists with p4a.ploneaudio in Plone
• Including a custom embedded audio player in Plone
• Using the Flowplayer product to include an audio player standalone in rich text and as a portlet
• Previewing the audio element of HTML5
• Extracting metadata from a FLAC file using mutagen

Using Debug Perspective – setting breakpoints

The article, Using Debug Perspective, will guide you through the ways of setting up breakpoints and navigate through the code using various breakpoint manipulation options. This article by Anatoly Spektor, author of Instant Eclipse Application Testing How-to, will guide you to learn what breakpoints are and how to use them. After reading this article, you will be able to effectively debug Java applications of any scope. Fortunately, any prior knowledge of Eclipse is not required; thus it is suitable for developers with any level of experience in Eclipse application development and testing.