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Service Oriented Java Business Integration - What's & Why's

by Binildas A. Christudas | April 2008 | BPEL SOA Web Services Java Open Source

Many of you as (Java) programmers generate business purpose code, like "confirming an order" or "find available products". At times, you may also want to connect to external systems and services, since your application in isolation alone will not provide you the required functionality. When the number of such connections increases, you would be generating more and more of "integration code", mixed along with your business code.

In this short article, Binildas A. Christudas introduces the Java Business Integration (JBI) specification and discusses how it is covered in his new book, Service Oriented Java Business Integration

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Customizing the Default Theme in Drupal

by Michael Peacock | April 2008 | Drupal e-Commerce Open Source

You have a Drupal website and an online store; your product catalog is online and you have set up customer and staff users on the site; the only complaint so far is how the website looks. You like the default design, but do not think it is appropriate for your site or your store; you want something more tailored to your business.

In this article by Michael Peacock we will learn how to customize the default theme in Drupal.

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Creating a Web Page for Displaying Data from SQL Server 2008

by Dr.Jay Krishnaswamy | April 2008 | .NET Microsoft

This article by Jayaram Krishnaswamy describes how you may connect to SQL Server 2008 and display the retrieved data in a GridView Control on a web page. Trying to establish a connection to the SQL Server 2008 is not possible in Visual Studio 2008 as you will see soon in the tutorial. One way to get around this, as shown in this tutorial, is to create an ODBC connection to the SQL Server and then using the ODBC connection to retrieve the data.

Visual Studio 2008 Version: 9.0.21022.8 RTM, Microsoft Windows XP Professional Media Center Edition, and SQL Server 'Katmai' were used for this tutorial.

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Building Queries Visually in MySQL Query Browser

by Djoni Darmawikarta | April 2008 | MySQL PHP

MySQL Query Browser, one of the open source MySQL GUI tools from MySQL AB, is used for building MySQL database queries visually. In MySQL Query Browser, you build database queries using just your mouse—click, drag and drop!

MySQL Query Browser has plenty of visual query building functions and features. This article Djoni Darmawikarta shows two examples, building Join and Master-detail queries. These examples will demonstrate some of these functions and features.

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Network Configuration—Tunneling with Free BSD

by Babak Farrokhi | April 2008 | Open Source

When talking about tunneling, different definitions come to people's minds. Basically, tunneling is transmitting data that is encapsulated into a pipe, over a public network (for example, the Internet). However, there are different methods to tunnel data over a public network for different approaches. For example, when security is a concern, tunnel protocols with cryptography are more favorable. But when performance has higher priority, protocols with lower packet overheads will be chosen. FreeBSD 7 has a built-in support for a number of important tunneling protocols, although there are also many third-party applications in FreeBSD packages that support more tunneling protocols.

This article by Babak Farrokhi, introduces the manipulation of tunnel interfaces in the FreeBSD 7 operating system. Let's have a look into the following:

  • GRE
  • IPSEC
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