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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library This series explores the major types of cloud services and related
software you can use to build Web-scale systems. In this article, learn
about AppScale and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
cloud computing. Explore the features and architecture of
this virtual infrastructure. It's a great way to test your
Google App Engine applications on your local resources or virtualized cloud
infrastructures, such as Amazon EC2 or Eucalyptus.
Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library Check out Global Innovation Outlooks' first-of-a-kind roundtable
in Second Life, diving into conducting a collaborative, open innovation
meeting in Second Life. The author also discusses tools to use for brainstorming and best
practices to consider during planning.
Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library Understand the tradeoffs in content currency as you practice including links to content, copies of content, or both.
Investigate techniques that will infuse new content into a solution information center after you deliver it to its audience.
For example, you can provide a link that launches a search of another web site's contents to find the latest documents,
You can include RSS feeds that deliver updated content to keep your solution information center fresh.
Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library Get introduced to Apache Click, a Java Platform, Enterprise
Edition (Java EE) Web application framework that enables the creation of Web
applications without using Model-View-Controller (MVC) patterns or JavaServer
Pages (JSP). This article provides examples of displaying a simple Web page
and creating a Web form that submits data that is displayed on a different Web
page.
Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library With the increasing interest in Ruby on Rails from companies in the
enterprise world, some observers have posed questions about its suitability
when it comes to the demanding requirements in this arena. One issue that some
have called attention to is that ActiveRecord, Rails' Object-Relational Mapper
(ORM), doesn't use prepared statements--or at least it didn't until now. With
the latest release of DB2 on Rails, parameterized queries are automatically
available and bring with them important performance and security benefits to
Rails applications.
Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library SugarCRM is the world's leading open source Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) software provider, with over 5,000 customers and 500,000 downloads of the
SugarCRM application all around the world. SugarCRM has long had a very useful Web
Services framework, allowing applications to access the SugarCRM instance and work
with data on it. But new to SugarCRM 5.2 is a framework for accessing other
outside Web services from inside the application itself. SugarCRM 5.2 ships with a
LinkedIn connector by default that uses this framework. Thus, users of the
SugarCRM instance can check on the LinkedIn status of various companies, contacts,
and leads they might have. In this article, learn how the connectors framework
works in Sugar 5.2 by building an example connector that allows users to see any recent Google News items pertaining to companies in their SugarCRM instance.
Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library Learn how Perl programmers can use three of the CPAN S3 modules --
Net::Amazon::S3, Amazon::S3, and SOAP::Amazon::S3 -- to list, create, and
delete "buckets" (S3 data storage); to list, create, retrieve, and delete
items in a bucket; and to get an item's metadata.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library The IBM DB2 9 release features a significant architectural departure from
prior versions. For the first time since its debut, DB2 is providing a new
query language, new storage technology, new indexing technology, and other
features to support XML data and its inherent hierarchical structure. But
don't worry, all of DB2's traditional database management features remain,
including its support for SQL and tabular data structures. Explore DB2 9's
XML technology, and learn why IBM now considers DB2 a "hybrid" or
multi-structured database management system. Originally written in 2006, this
article has been updated to include product changes in DB2 9.5 and
9.7.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library The OSGi framework is becoming increasingly popular. It provides great mechanisms for developing modular and dynamic applications.
The recent OSGi Service Platform Release 4 V4.2 specifications
introduced the Blueprint Container specification. In this article, learn
how the Blueprint Container provides a simple programming model for creating
dynamic applications in the OSGi environment. Numerous examples help get you started with the Blueprint XML file
and the component XML definitions.
Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library OpenID is a decentralized authentication protocol that makes it easier for users to access resources in your Java Web applications. In this first half of a two-part article, you'll learn about the OpenID Authentication Specification and walk through the steps of incorporating it into a sample Java application. Rather than implement the OpenID Authentication specification by hand, author J. Steven Perry uses the openid4java library and a popular OpenID provider, myOpenID, to create a safe and reliable registration process for a Java application written in Wicket.
Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library Map-based mashups abound these days. Mashups require services
that can be mashed up. Location-based mashups need services that
provide boundary information. With Web-based mapping providers, you can
easily create a map-based mashup with little or no capital investment. In
this article, learn how to create a KML boundary
service from an ESRI shapefile to be used in mashups.
Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library Master techniques for collecting and customizing reusable content for a solution information center that describes your IT project. Learn fast paths for capturing many documents at once for instant reuse.
Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library Continue to build the Web Automobile Sales Platform by adding the ability to add, delete, and update the automobile records in Part 3 of a five-part series. You will also see how to separate user functions from administrative functions with authentication.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library The pureXML Universal Services for JSON (abbreviated to JSON Universal Services in this article) are a set of database operations, including insert, update, delete, and query, exposed as Web services. These services enable an application to persist JSON in pureXML and to query it easily through HTTP with WebSphere Application Server. Get started with configuring and testing JSON Universal Services in this article.
Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library Agavi is an open-source, flexible, and scalable framework for application development. One of its key features is a full-featured API for user authentication and role-based access control. Examine this API in detail, and see how to add sophisticated application-level privilege management and manipulation to a Web application.
Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library Recap and deliver your IT project experience for the benefit of clients, colleagues, and your own records.
Quickly and productively document the solution you've implemented. Aggregate, organize, and share presentations, demos, product documentation, feeds, code samples, and other information you've created or reused for delivery in an Eclipse-based information center.
Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library This is the first of a five-part series of articles written for the PHP developer interested in learning about an open-source, flexible, and scalable framework called Agavi. In this first article, you walk through the installation of the framework and the other required components, get an overview of Agavi and its functions, and create your first Web application.
Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library In the first part of this five part series, you will tap into one of the most popular new technologies available to mobile Web applications: geolocation. High-end smartphones all have GPS built-in to them, and now you will learn how it can be used by a Web application. In this article you will learn how to use the various aspects of the geolocation standard and how to use it with some popular Web services to create an interesting mobile mash-up.
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