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Using Apache Pivot to build an iTunes search client
Apache Pivot is an open source platform for building rich internet applications (RIAs) in a Java environment. It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern RIA toolkit with the robustness of the industry-standard Java platform. Apache Pivot applications take advantage of WTKX, an XML-based language for user interface design, which makes the application's output easy to visualize. In this tutorial, you will follow the implementation of a simple but practical Pivot application that allows a user to execute searches against the contents of the iTunes Store.
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13 Oct 2009 |
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Monitor home energy with AMEE
Electricity is invisible. To understand how people use it, you need to make it visible. This tutorial will show you how easy it is to build a Web-based energy monitoring system yourself, using a Current Cost real-time energy monitor and AMEE, a neutral Web-based API for energy data, combined with some XML, Ruby, Rails, and Ajax.
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29 Sep 2009 |
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ICEfaces and Google Translate
Globalization has had an enormous impact on our lives and cultures. As a
result, translation is becoming an increasingly important tool to enhance
understanding between cultures. Organizations try to use Web technologies with
different languages, scripts, and cultures, and developers search for new
technologies that will help them create efficient applications as quickly as
possible. Fortunately, JavaServer Faces (JSF) simplifies life for application developers, making it
possible for them to focus on the view without needing to know the underlying
markup or scripts. ICEfaces, an integrated Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax)
application framework, enables Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application developers to easily create and deploy thin-client,
rich Internet applications in pure Java code. This tutorial describes how to develop Web applications using
JSF with the translation option.
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08 Sep 2009 |
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Integrating SOAP Web services in WebSphere sMash applications
You can probably think of many scenarios in which you might want to
reuse existing SOAP Web services in new applications. The IBM WebSphere sMash
REST to SOAP extension enables you to provide REST access to existing SOAP Web
services, providing easier and more intuitive access to such functions. This
tutorial demonstrates how you can use the WebSphere sMash REST to SOAP
extension to leverage a SOAP Web service deployed on IBM WebSphere Application
Server. The SOAP Web service will serve to provide data for a Dojo-based
widget provided by WebSphere sMash.
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26 Aug 2009 |
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AjaXQuery
Discover how you can get the full benefit of using XQuery technology
together with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax). Your Web application will have the back-end benefit of
sophisticated XML querying as well as the client-side benefit of rich
presentation without the distraction of repeated requests.
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07 Jul 2009 |
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Build a RESTful service on CICS with PHP
CICS Transaction Server (TS) is a powerful transaction manager designed for
rapid, high-volume processing. SupportPac CA1S uses technology from IBM
WebSphere sMash to enhance CICS TS with PHP scripting capabilities and
Representational state transfer (REST)-related features. This tutorial shows how you can use PHP to quickly and easily
work with CICS programs and expose them on the Web. If you are a PHP developer,
find out how you can use your skills to interact with enterprise assets in CICS;
if you are a CICS developer, see how PHP provides a simple and agile way to
manipulate your existing resources.
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21 Apr 2009 |
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Build Comet applications using Scala, Lift, and jQuery
Web applications have gotten more and more advanced, and users are always
expecting more out of them. One of the most advanced features is Comet, also
known as reverse Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) or server-side push. Comet allows for browser-based instant
messaging, real-time stock quotes, and so on. Advanced Ajax libraries, such as
jQuery, make
it easy to write Comet applications on the client side, but getting them to scale
on the server is still a challenge. That is where the Scala programming language
and the Lift Web application framework can step in and deliver a scalable
back end for your Comet application. In this tutorial, build a
real-time Web auction using these technologies.
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24 Mar 2009 |
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Implement a Facebook photo album using the Flex SDK
Adobe has released the free, open source Flex SDK framework to enable developers
to create Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). The Flex framework provides you with
a method of creating cross-browser, cross-platform Web applications that is quick and
simple. Flex applications run in the Flash player, which is installed on the majority of
Internet-connected computers, but Flex provides you with an object-oriented
user interface framework similar to Java's Swing. In this tutorial, develop a
Facebook application in Adobe Flex that displays a slideshow of a user's Facebook
photo albums. The Facebook application will contain a Profile box listing all of the
user's photo albums, each a link to a Flex slideshow of that album. The Flex application
will use the Facebook REST API to fetch the photos of the selected Facebook album and
dynamically generate the slideshow.
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18 Nov 2008 |
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Develop mobile widgets with Yahoo! Blueprint
Developing mobile applications can be a daunting task. With hundreds of handsets
to develop against and support, mobile application development can be time consuming and
costly. Fortunately, Yahoo! Blueprint helps alleviate this pain by providing a single
way to develop mobile applications. With Blueprint, you can author a mobile application
one time that can be targeted at mobile devices with a browser (or devices that support the
Blueprint platform), allowing you to potentially reach thousands of users. In this
tutorial you will see how to develop a weather mobile widget using the Yahoo! Blueprint
platform.
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11 Nov 2008 |
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An introduction to XML User Interface Language (XUL) development
XUL is a tried and true application framework. In fact, the recently released Firefox 3.0 is not only built using XUL, but provides a XUL runtime environment that enables any Firefox user to run other XUL applications. In this tutorial, you start to program in XUL and learn about some tools to help you develop XUL apps. Build a XUL-based blog editor as you enhance your Web development skills to build desktop apps with XUL.
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04 Nov 2008 |
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Develop a dynamic location-based mashup
Mashups are a new, highly interactive Web development methodology. Essentially a mix
of related content put together from disparate sources, mashups provide rich dynamic content
for a superb user experience. Getting Asynchronous
JavaScript + XML (Ajax) and mashup chops into your development toolbox will
benefit you with high demand in the evolving Web 2.0
workspace.
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07 Oct 2008 |
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Developing software on an open source stack
Web developers are enjoying a renaissance. After spending much of the previous
decade toiling on server-centric code, programmers are now putting code
front-and-center, turning the Web browser into its own computing platform. Much of the
renaissance must be attributed to ingenuity. The newest generation of tools and
application frameworks automate and simplify the drudgery of building, deploying, and
maintaining a Web site. There are also more tools than ever, and all the most
innovative tools are open source. This tutorial provides an expansive survey of the free
software available to developers to create and deploy Web applications.
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19 Aug 2008 |
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Track spatial objects with an Ajax-driven radar screen
Maybe you're trying to keep track of the traffic waiting for you on the commute home, or perhaps you're tracking the objects and people floating around Second Life or another virtual world. Wouldn't it be nice if you could track that kind of thing right from your browser? This tutorial shows you how to use Ajax to create an animated, self-updating radar screen.
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17 Jun 2008 |
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Reuse Java code in your Ruby on Rails applications
The Ruby Java Bridge (RJB) lets you load Java classes directly
to, and call them from, Ruby on Rails applications. This tutorial shows how you can
put this toolkit to work by reusing your legacy Java Web application code in a modern Web development platform.
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05 Jun 2008 |
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Implement Semantic Web standards in your Web site
With Yahoo's recent announcement that they will implement support of
Semantic Web standards in their search engine, the benefits that the Semantic Web
has for your site have never been clearer. In addition to the existing benefits such as your structured content giving you a free, open-ended API, you now get the opportunity for increased search rankings, and more importantly, increased relevance because the search engine can better understand what the content of your site is about. In this tutorial you will learn to implement a simple social networking site using PHP and MySQL, which will implement Semantic Web standards such as hCard and Friend of a Friend (FOAF) as part of a semantic Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme.
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20 May 2008 |
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Understanding SPARQL
The Semantic Web, a knowledge-centric model for the Web's future, supplements human-readable documents and XML message formats with data that can be understood and processed by machines. SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) is to the semantic Web as SQL is to a relational database. It allows applications to make sophisticated queries against distributed RDF databases, and is widely supported by many competing frameworks. This tutorial demonstrates its use through the example of a team tracking and journaling system for a virtual company.
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15 May 2008 |
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Create an Ajax-based IM client
The ability to instant message (IM) co-workers and friends is a great convenience, but some environments prohibit the use of instant messaging clients in the workplace due to security concerns. The exercise in this tutorial resolves any security concerns by showing you how to use Ajax to create a Web-based IM client that turns IM traffic into plain Web traffic by creating an instant messaging "bot" and a corresponding Web application. While it's not a production application, it demonstrates several nifty Ajax techniques, such as how to use Prototype to do easier DOM manipulation and how to easily update sections of a Web page, either once or repeatedly.
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29 Apr 2008 |
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Create your own information space with Ajax and del.icio.us
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking Web site that allows users to create and
share browser-independent bookmarks, accessible directly over the Internet, in ways
your browser won't allow. The traditional hierarchical organization of browser bookmarks is overhauled, allowing users to instead associate each and every bookmark with any number of descriptive tags. Imagine a single page where you and your friends can surf the Web and have your del.icio.us tags, links, and functions handy, or a single page where you can save the site you're browsing directly into your del.icio.us account, along with comments and chosen tags. This tutorial shows you how to use Ajax to build just such a page using a PHP script as the server-side proxy.
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26 Feb 2008 |
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Getting started with JavaServer Faces 1.2, Part 2: JSF life cycle, conversion, validation, and phase listeners
This tutorial series covers how to get started with
Java Server Faces (JSF) technology, a server-side framework that offers a
component-based approach to Web user-interface development.
Part 1 gets you started with a JSF 1.2 overview and a basic application. This sequel gives
you a firm grasp of JSF's more-advanced features: custom validators, converters, and
phase listeners. Along the way you'll gain an understanding of the JSF application
life cycle.
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29 Jan 2008 |
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Create dynamic Firefox user interfaces
When you create browser-based applications that display XML data feeds, you
often need to code the data-retrieval mechanism and the user interface. Mozilla
Firefox provides an infrastructure that frees you from these tasks, so you can concentrate on your application's functionality. Learn how to use Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) to download XML data from a Web server, and discover how you can use Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) to transform it dynamically into Firefox user-interface elements expressed in XML User Interface Language (XUL). You can apply these techniques to any application that uses XML data sources.
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15 Jan 2008 |
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Push RSS to new limits
This tutorial presents an innovative use of the well-known Really Simple
Syndication (RSS) format's associative properties to emulate the functionality of a
simple relational database. It demonstrates using RSS channels to store contact
information and meeting information -- much as a personal address book and calendar
does. It uses RSS elements and attributes such as items and guids to create a neural-network-like mesh of related data.
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18 Dec 2007 |
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Getting started with JavaServer Faces 1.2, Part 1: Building basic applications
JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology, a server-side framework that offers a component-based approach to Web user-interface development, has come a long way. JSF 1.2 (incorporated into Java Enterprise Edition 5) has fixed some JSF pain points and added some nice features. This tutorial series covers how to get started with JSF 1.2. It's heavy on examples and light on theory -- just what you need to get started quickly.
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18 Dec 2007 |
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Made-to-order content with Yahoo Pipes
Explore the steps and benefits of using a content feed filtering utility like Yahoo Pipes to better capture, merge, and alter specific data from available streams. This tutorial outlines some techniques to approach feed transformations, and includes three demonstrations featuring key areas of the environment.
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05 Jun 2007 |
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Building Google gadgets, Part 2: Working with the user interface
Part 2 of the "Building Google gadgets" series introduces the advanced features
of gadgets, including creating a tabbed user interface, drag and drop, and MiniMessages,
and gets you started creating your own.
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22 May 2007 |
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Building Google gadgets, Part 1: Fundamentals of Google gadgets
In this new Web development series, learn how to develop Google gadgets. Gadgets are small applications that you can add to most any Web page as a means to offer dynamic and rich content. Google has an abundance of gadgets to choose from. However, the most intriguing aspect of gadgets is that you can write them for your own use and then publish them on Google, where other developers can integrate your work into their Web projects.
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24 Apr 2007 |
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Use XML to develop with the Google Web Toolkit
The Google Web Toolkit enables you to use Java(TM) syntax to create the JavaScript(TM) necessary for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) user interfaces. Most of these Ajax applications use XML to transfer information to and from the server, so your application must be able to both parse and create XML data. This tutorial shows you how to manipulate and create XML using the Google Web Toolkit.
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10 Apr 2007 |
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Build Web apps with ThinWire and Java code, Part 5: Page switching
Part 5 of the "Build Web apps with ThinWire and Java code" series explores a methodology for separating your ThinWire and Java Web site into multiple pages, providing the ability for your clients to switch among those pages using either direct pointer links or sequential page access.
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10 Apr 2007 |
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Build Web apps with ThinWire and Java code, Part 4: Write a template class
ThinWire is an open source development framework that lets you build Web applications that look and feel like desktop applications. This five-part series explores how to develop rich Web applications using ThinWire and Java programming. In this installation, learn how to write a template class that defines one of the most commonly used Web page layouts.
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13 Mar 2007 |
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Programming Hamlets
This tutorial illustrates various aspects of Hamlet programming as it provides a number of practical Hamlet examples. The examples are part of WebZEC (Web-based Zurich Event Console) -- a fast, browser-based console to quickly navigate in intrusion-detection alarms. With these samples, you can develop a good understanding how to use Hamlets for Web-based application development and how Hamlets work.
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13 Mar 2007 |
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The ultimate mashup -- Web services and the semantic Web, Part 4: Create an ontology
This series details the creation of a mashup application that gives control over the data displayed back to the user; to do that, you need to build in intelligence. Now that you know how to represent information in RDF, you can start to create an ontology using the XML-based Web Ontology Language (OWL), which will enable you to automatically choose between services and parts of services.
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08 Mar 2007 |
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The ultimate mashup -- Web services and the semantic Web, Part 5: Change out Web services
This series details the creation of a mashup application that gives control over the data displayed back to the user. Now that you know how to create an ontology that defines the concepts represented by a service, you can enable users to choose which service they want to use.
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08 Mar 2007 |
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Flip for Flapjax
Meet Flapjax -- a new programming language with an old syntax based on standard JavaScript. With Flapjax you can easily program data sharing, interfaces to external Web services, persistence, and end-user responsiveness in Web applications.
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20 Feb 2007 |
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Develop HTML widgets with Dojo
Learn the basics of developing HTML widgets using Dojo; including how to refer an image, how to add an event handler to an HTML page, and how to handle composite widgets. Also, discover some important differences between plain old JavaScript-style coding versus Dojo, and get tips for handling complex issues inherent in Web application development.
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14 Feb 2007 |
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Build Web apps with ThinWire and Java code, Part 3: Styling support
With ThinWire, an open-source development framework, you can build Web applications that look and feel like desktop applications. In this five-part series, you'll learn how to develop rich Web applications using ThinWire and Java programming. Here in Part 3, you learn to use ThinWire styling support at both a global level and an individual component level.
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06 Feb 2007 |
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Build Web apps with ThinWire and Java code, Part 2: Using the SplitLayout Class
With ThinWire, an open-source development framework, you can build Web applications that look and feel like desktop applications. In this five-part series, you'll learn how to develop rich Web applications using ThinWire and Java. In Part 2, you learn to use the SplitLayout class in conjunction with your own layout management code to dynamically change the layout of a ThinWire GUI based on the current size of the Web browser window.
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03 Jan 2007 |
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Build a shopping cart application using XForms
This tutorial focuses on key aspects of the W3C XForms 1.0 standard to produce a fully functional Web-based shopping cart. With this approach, the reader will get a good start at creating real-world applications with XForms, without having to learn the entire XForms specification.
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12 Dec 2006 |
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Build Web apps with ThinWire and Java code, Part 1: Manage Web app layout
With ThinWire, an open source development framework, you can build Web applications that look and feel like desktop applications. In this five-part series of tutorials, you'll learn how to develop rich Web applications using ThinWire and Java(TM) programming. In Part 1, you begin the process and learn how to deal with user interface layout issues in ThinWire. You will discover in this tutorial that providing dynamic layout management using the ThinWire framework is a relatively easy thing to do.
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05 Dec 2006 |
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Automate XML file updates, Part 1: XML Process introduction and conversion stylesheet creation
This is the first part of a tutorial series that describes a method for automating updates to a library of XML files so that they all conform to an updated XML schema. In Part 1, you learn the steps in the entire process and then create an XSLT stylesheet to update the XML files. In Part 2, you learn to install, configure, and run Apache Ant and Java SE to iteratively transform each of your XML files based on the updates specified in your XSLT stylesheet.
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17 Aug 2006 |
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Automate XML file updates, Part 2: Use Apache Ant and conversion stylesheets to update your XML
This is the second part of a tutorial series that describes a method for automating updates to a library of XML files so that they all conform to an updated XML schema. In Part 1, you learn the steps of the entire process, and then create an XSLT stylesheet to update the XML files. Here, in Part 2, you learn to install, configure, and run Ant and Java SE to iteratively transform each of your XML files based on the updates specified in your XSLT stylesheet.
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17 Aug 2006 |
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Automate XML file updates, Part 1: XML process introduction and conversion stylesheet creation
This is the first part of a tutorial series that describes a method for automating updates to a library of XML files so that they all conform to an updated XML schema. In Part 1, you learn the steps in the entire process and then create an XSLT stylesheet to update the XML files. In Part 2, you learn to install, configure, and run Apache Ant and Java SE to iteratively transform each of your XML files based on the updates specified in your XSLT stylesheet.
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17 Aug 2006 |
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Automate XML file updates, Part 2: Use Apache Ant and conversion stylesheets to update your XML
This is the second part of a tutorial series that describes a method for automating updates to a library of XML files so that they all conform to an updated XML schema. In Part 1, you learn the steps of the entire process, and then create an XSLT stylesheet to update the XML files. Here, in Part 2, you learn to install, configure, and run Ant and Java SE to iteratively transform each of your XML files based on the updates specified in your XSLT stylesheet.
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17 Aug 2006 |
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Dynamic SVG features for browsers
Learn how to use dynamic features of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to provide useful and attractive effects in your Web applications. SVG 1.1, an XML language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, provides a practical and flexible graphics format in XML. Many SVG features provide for dynamic effects, including features for integration into a Web browser. Uche Ogbuji builds on basic SVG techniques introduced in a previous tutorial.
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15 Aug 2006 |
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Introduction to Spring 2 and JPA
Java server applications need not be difficult and tedious to create. Now in its second generation, the lightweight Spring framework adds a large suite of features that make it simple for even new server application developers to use. One key enhancement is Spring 2's integration with the Java Persistence API (JPA), a cornerstone of the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 specification. In this tutorial, learn how to create server applications from scratch using the Spring 2 framework.
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08 Aug 2006 |
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Podcasting for developers
Many articles and books on podcasting assume that you have experience with sound recording, you can recognize XLR cables, and you understand decibels. Consequently, they spend a lot of time discussing the computer-specific aspects, such as MP3 encoding and hosting Really Simple Syndication (RSS) files, and comparatively little on the audio aspects. If you search on audio, you find plenty of articles on audio recording for musicians and home studio. Some of that material is useful but, again, the tendency is to assume that computers are the difficult bit. What makes this tutorial unique is that it is written by a developer, for developers. So it assumes that you can handle the developer's tasks (such as writing the RSS feed) and concentrates on the novelty: the use of audio.
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27 Jun 2006 |
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Create vector graphics in the browser with SVG
Learn step-by-step how to incorporate Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) into Web pages using real browser examples. SVG 1.1, an XML language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, provides a practical and flexible graphics format in XML, despite the language's verbosity. Several browsers recently completed or announced built-in SVG support.
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20 Jun 2006 |
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Best practices for location-aware services
This tutorial gets you started with IBM Enterprise LAS middleware. Learn the concepts behind the middleware and write a simple location-tracking Web application with the help of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) technologies. With these best practices in mind, you'll be on your way to building faster location-tracking systems that can easily integrate with positioning/sensoring technologies, such as RFID and Zigbee.
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06 Jun 2006 |
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The Ajax transport method
Discover three Ajax data transport mechanisms (XMLHttp, script tags, and frames or iframes) and their relative strengths and weaknesses. This tutorial provides code for both the server side and the client side and explains it in detail to provide the techniques you need to put efficient Ajax controls anywhere you need them.
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06 Jun 2006 |
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LPI exam 202 prep, Topic 208: Web services
In this tutorial, the fourth in a series of seven tutorials covering intermediate network administration on Linux, David Mertz continues preparing you to take the Linux Professional Institute Intermediate Level Administration (LPIC-2) Exam 208. Here, David Mertz discusses how to configure and run the Apache HTTP server and the Squid proxy server.
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25 Apr 2006 |
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Use PHP to build a search engine optimization app: Creating reports and billing clients
PHP, a dynamic Web-based programming language, takes a variety of input formats and has a built-in SOAP client to obtain information from the Web. PHP, combined with applications using search engine optimization (SEO), is a powerful tool for obtaining information from major search engines, allowing this information to guide a webmaster's online marketing and SEO strategies. In this final part of a two-part "Use PHP to build a search engine optimization app" series, we add two search venues and the functionality to search all or just one of the search engines. You will also extend the Apache Derby database to provide support for billing clients.
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21 Mar 2006 |
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Use PHP to build a search engine optimization app, Part 1: Getting started
PHP, a dynamic Web-based programming language, takes a variety of input formats and uses a built-in SOAP client to obtain information from the Web. PHP, combined with applications using search engine optimization (SEO), is a powerful tool for obtaining information from major search engines, allowing this information to guide a webmaster's online marketing and SEO strategies. Find out how to take advantage of these strategies by building the back end of an application to monitor and track your client's SEO efforts.
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14 Mar 2006 |
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An introduction to the Eclipse Web Tools Platform V1.0
The Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) extends the Eclipse IDE to enable easy development of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)-based applications. Learn how to install WTP, configure it for use with an application server, and use the tools it provides to create a J2EE application.
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21 Feb 2006 |
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User annotations in Ajax
The ability to add notes and comments to your Web site can be a powerful and attractive feature for users. This tutorial demonstrates how to implement an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)-based user annotation system in the form of yellow sticky notes that sit on top of regular Web page content. The only additional, required configuration is a back-end Perl script that stores the annotations
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31 Jan 2006 |
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Build apps using Asynchronous JavaScript with XML (AJAX)
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript with XML) enables a dynamic, asynchronous Web experience without the need for page refreshes. In this tutorial, you will learn to build AJAX-based Web applications -- complete with real time validation and without page refreshes -- by following the construction of a sample book order application.
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15 Nov 2005 |
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Tomcat for beginning Web developers
The Apache Tomcat application server is no longer the exclusive domain of advanced Web system developers. In this tutorial, Sing Li shows beginning Web developers how to leverage their current Java development skills to program server-side JSPs, servlets, and Web services using Tomcat.
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20 Oct 2005 |
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XHTML, step-by-step
Get started working with Extensible Hypertext Markup Language. XHTML is a language based on HTML, but expressed in well-formed XML. But XHTML is much more than just regularizing tags and characters -- XHTML can alter the way you approach Web design. This tutorial gives step-by-step instruction for developers familiar with HTML who want to learn how to use XHTML in practical Web sites.
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06 Sep 2005 |
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Introduction to Swing
This hands-on introduction to Swing, the first in a two-part series on Swing programming, walks through the essential components in the Swing library. Java developer and Swing enthusiast Michael Abernethy guides you through the basic building blocks and then assists as you build basic but functional Swing application. Along the way you'll learn how to use models to ease the process of dealing with the data.
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29 Jun 2005 |
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Display XML with Cascading Stylesheets: Use Cascading Stylesheets to display XML, Part 3: Combine XSLT and CSS to process XML
In Parts 1 and 2 of this tutorial series, Uche Ogbuji has shown how to use Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) to display XML in browsers, presenting basic and advanced techniques. Although some people see XSLT and CSS as opposing technologies, they are actually very complementary. CSS cannot, and is not designed to, handle many XML rendering tasks. You can use XSLT for many such tasks, and even manage the CSS that is still used to fine-tune the presentation. This tutorial covers techniques for using XSLT to process XML in association with CSS.
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20 Jun 2005 |
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Set up a PHP and MySQL development environment
Set up PHP, Apache, and MySQL as a development environment on a Windows XP machine. This tutorial gives you step-by-step instructions on how to get it all up and running painlessly.
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08 Jun 2005 |
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Introduction to LAMP technology
This tutorial explores the Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP, or LAMP, Web development framework and shows how that framework can help you build applications to solve common business problems. The tutorial begins with an exploration of the LAMP architecture, then introduces fundamental PHP concepts. After a solid grounding of PHP, the tutorial explains MySQL support, with coverage focusing on database concepts and how to access MySQL from PHP. All of these techniques are discussed within the context of a real-world customer management example.
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03 May 2005 |
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Display XML with Cascading Stylesheets: Use Cascading Stylesheets to display XML, Part 2: Advanced techniques to present XML in Web browsers
In a previous tutorial, Uche Ogbuji showed how to use Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) to display XML in browsers, presenting basic techniques. However, as anyone who has tried to master CSS even in the world of HTML and JavaScript can attest, there are numerous tricks, traps and nuances. The same is true when using CSS with XML. This tutorial builds on the basics in the earlier one to cover such intermediate and advanced topics.
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25 Feb 2005 |
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Introduction to JavaServer Pages
This tutorial introduces the fundamentals of JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology 2.0 and provides an update to the original tutorial written by Noel J. Bergman that discussed JSP 1.2. This tutorial provides a solid grasp of JSP basics to enable you to start writing your own JSP solutions. This tutorial will discuss the fundamental elements that define JSP, identify and exemplify each element, use topical examples to illustrate each element and clearly illuminate important issues related to that element.
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01 Feb 2005 |
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Display XML with Cascading Stylesheets: Use Cascading Stylesheets to display XML, Part 1: Basic techniques to present XML in Web browsers
Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) are well known as the most standards-compliant means of manipulating the look of HTML Web pages. They also happen to be the most practical way of displaying XML in browsers. Browsers have included support for CSS applied to XML much longer than XSLT, and the CSS implementations are generally more complete and reliable. This tutorial shows how to use CSS to present XML in Web browsers.
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30 Nov 2004 |
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Analyze with XSLT: Create 3D representations with XSLT and SVG
In Part 4 of this series on analyzing data with XSLT, the MindMap Research Team realized that the cognitive data they're analyzing might be easier to understand if represented in the 3D space for which it is intended. The team decides to use XSLT to transform it into a 3D graph so changing the viewpoint changes the view of the data. This tutorial shows how to implement this from a command line and using a browser to display the results.
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27 Apr 2004 |
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Web site user modeling with PHP
Web site user modeling, a mathematical discipline, is easier than you might expect. In this tutorial, Paul Meagher shows you how to construct a user-modeling platform with PHP and MySQL -- technologies well suited for a species of user-modeling called Web site user modeling. Even small Web-development shops can use clickstream data to build Web site user models.
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30 Dec 2003 |
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Apache Ant 101: Make Java builds a snap
Whether you're a veteran user of Apache Ant in need of a refresher or just starting out with this open source Java-based build tool, this tutorial provides a wealth of information. With Java developer and Ant enthusiast Matt Chapman from the IBM Java Technology Centre, you'll walk through the steps involved in writing a build file for a simple Java project, and then look at some of Ant's other useful functions, including filesystem operations and pattern matching. You'll finish the course by writing our own Java class that extends Ant's functionality.
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17 Dec 2003 |
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Interactive, dynamic Scalable Vector Graphics
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML application language which describes 2D vector graphics. SVG includes animation and scripting functionality. Scripting of SVG images provides powerful and flexible interactivity to add value to images on SVG-enabled Web sites. In addition, SVG images can be created dynamically from XML data, for example from an XML-enabled relational database management system, using XSLT and other technologies. This tutorial demonstrates the use of JavaScript to enable users to dynamically control the content and appearance of a floor plan rendered using SVG.
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27 Jun 2003 |
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Generate dynamic bitmap graphics with PHP and gd
A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when it is used to illustrate business, financial, or scientific data. It is worth even more if you can generate it on demand and serve the latest information in the visual format. If your job requires writing such applications in PHP, then this tutorial will teach you how to generate dynamic bitmap images using PHP and the gd library.
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07 May 2003 |
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Create themes for Mozilla and Netscape
This tutorial demonstrates how to control the appearance of Mozilla and Mozilla-based browsers (such as Netscape 7 and above). It walks you through an example of creating an installable theme that you can download to change the look and feel of your browser and its components. The example theme makes use of XML, Cascading Style Sheets, and image resources to expand your experience with the browser, while requiring no programming knowledge.
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15 Apr 2003 |
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XHTML applications go mobile
Send XHTML apps to mobile devices. Follow this tutorial and learn to build a mobile app that posts requests to a Java servlet, and receives responses in XHTML. Regular contributor Naveen Balani has you develop and test it.
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18 Mar 2003 |
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Zen and the art of installing Request Tracker 2.0.x
This tutorial is designed to be a thorough introduction and installation guide for the great issue tracking tool, Request Tracker (RT). RT fulfills a key need in a project's Configuration Management (CM) process. By the end of the tutorial, you will have a working installation of RT and ready to implement a CM process for your project. The primary focus is installing RT on the average GNU/Linux system. The tutorial also points out possible stumbling blocks in various installation steps.
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05 Nov 2002 |
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Secure your Web server
This tutorial details how to "lock down" a Web server in less than an hour. It covers physical security, the importance of firewalls, correct application installation, file permissions, application configuration, and techniques that allow Web page maintainers to do their job without sacrificing system integrity.
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23 Jul 2002 |
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Customizing Apache for maximum performance
Apache is a marvelously customizable daemon. You can tailor this web server software for specific platforms, environments, and performance thresholds. Unfortunately, most administrators run an out-of-the-box installation with few modifications to the default configuration. In this Linux-focused tutorial, you learn many suggestions, tips, and tricks for controlling Apache and modifying its behavior to best fit its running environment.
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20 Jun 2002 |
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Flex your PHP
When you're working with the Wireless Markup Language, you should know that it can get more dynamic with the use of PHP. Contributor Vivek Malhotra takes you through sample Hypertext Preprocessor tasks. After following this free, dW-exclusive tutorial, which contains detailed sample code, you'll be able to create dynamic wireless and Web pages.
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19 Mar 2002 |
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JavaScript floating objects
This tutorial is targeted at Web developers who want to create objects, such as images and menus, that hold their place (or float) in the browser window even when the user scrolls or resizes the window. You can achieve the same effect using JavaScript in the browser -- creating content, placing it, and controlling its location as the user scrolls or resizes the page.
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20 Dec 2001 |
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Understanding dynamic positioning
This tutorial is designed to assist Web developers who need tight control over the placement of content on their pages, but who understand the need to separate content from presentation in order to improve compliance with standards and ease of maintenance.
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13 Nov 2001 |
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Modularization of XHTML
This tutorial is designed for users who need to understand the modularization of XHTML, either to use a subset of XHTML, or to add their own tags to create their own markup language variants.
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23 Oct 2001 |
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