2004 30.02 2006

Vol.30 n°2 (#369) february 2005

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Editorial

[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FEATURES

Java Web Services & Application Architectures

[author : Eric J. Bruno]

Eric use the Java Web Service Developer Pack to build a financial portal.

SOAs & ESBs

[author : James Pasley]

James examines Service-Oriented Architectures and the role of the Enterprise Service Bus when deploying SOAs.

Ruby/Amazon & Amazon Web Services

[author : Ian MacDonald]

The Ruby/Amazon toolkit is a high-level abstraction of Amazon Web Services for the Ruby programming language.

GIS Web Services and Microsoft Word

[author : Keith Bugg]

Here's a Geographical Information Systems application that lets you embed a map into a Microsoft Word document.

Java Cryptography & X.509 Authentication

[author : Snezana Sucurovic and Zoran Jovanovic]

Our authors use the Java Crypto API to implement X.509 authentication in a distributed system.

Building an Eclipse Web-Search Plug-In

[author : Michael Pilone]

This Eclipse plug-in lets you search DDJ's online archives.

Automating Localization

[author : Hew Wolff]

Converting existing systems to local languages can be a laborious process—making it ideal for automation.

Algorithms for Dynamic Shadows

[author : Sergei Savchenko]

Geometrically correct dynamic graphic shadows can add realism to your graphical applications.

Extending UML

[author : Timothy E. Meehan and Norman Carr]

Extended Activity Semantics (XAS) notation lets you model user interactions by extending UML.

Integrating Reporting Services into ASP.NET

[author : David Lloyd]

David designs and deploys a report using Reporting Services, a free add-on to SQL Server 2000.

New Syntax C++ in .NET Version 2

[author : Richard Grimes]

Richard examines how generics are declared in Whidbey C++ and how they relate to C++ templates.

Enhancing .NET Web Services

[author : Eric Bergman-Terrell]

SoapEx demonstrates how you can modify SOAP requests/responses and debug web-service calls with a network packet analyzer.

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Inside the uIP Stack

[author : Drew Barnett and Anthony J. Massa]

uIP lets you to add network support to small form factor, DSP-based embedded systems.

COLUMNS

Programming Paradigms

[author : Michael Swaine]

Embedded Space

[author : Ed Nisley]

Chaos Manor

[author : Jerry Pournelle]

Programmer's Bookshelf

[author : Martin Heller]

FORUM

Letters

[author : you]

Dr. Ecco's Omniheurist Corner

[author : Dennis E. Shasha]

News & Views

[author : Shannon Cochran]

Of Interest

[author : Shannon Cochran]

Swaine's Flames

[author : Michael Swaine]