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IBM 14 March 2008 | Volume 9, Issue 10 
developerWorks Weekly Edition
 

Dear Developer,


Welcome to the developerWorks Weekly Edition, a customizable newsletter that highlights the latest resources on IBM developerWorks.

This week we're focusing on dynamic programming, Ajax for tables, Representational State Transfer (REST) services, and more. Our top features:

REST services have also been drawing lots of attention at our Lotus zone. This week's Lotus feature shows you how to create RESTful IBM Lotus Domino applications in a Web 2.0 world with Project Zero. You'll also want to check out our other recent articles on:

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 AIX and UNIX
AIX and UNIX zone | AIX and UNIX tutorials | AIX and UNIX articles | AIX and UNIX forums
Tutorial: Building custom language parsers
Take a close look at the typical issues you would encounter while creating a custom parser and see how you can solve those problems using ANTLR.
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Top ten AIX and UNIX articles and tutorials: February 2008
See what AIX and UNIX content your peers found most valuable.
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 Autonomic computing
Autonomic computing zone | Articles | Tutorials | Forums
Getting started with Simplified Policy Language
Create and run a policy to manage your Windows file system space using SPL and the evaluation engine of the Apache Imperius project.
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 Information Management
Information Mgmt zone | Articles | Tutorials | Reader favorites | Forums | Downloads
Tutorial: Interactivity in reports and charts
This final installment of a tutorial series designed to help you understand and build reports using BIRT in IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Edition Design Studio shows you how to add interactivity to your reports, and create and re-use report templates.
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Tutorial: Deploy Data Web Services to a WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Web server
Deploy a Data Web service created by IBM Data Studio's Data Web Services to a Web server, in Part 2 of this series.
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Get the most out of Informix Dynamic Server optimizer using UPDATE STATISTICS
Learn to use the UPDATE STATISTICS statement, and see how it can be used to solve a variety of problems. Browse an FAQ section to answer any lingering questions you might have about this important SQL statement.
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Trial: Informix Dynamic Server Developer Edition
Download Informix Dynamic Server Developer Edition at no charge and see how easily you can begin developing database applications with blazing OLTP performance and nearly hands-free administration.
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March 19 webcast: IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server
The LeverageInformation community invites all members to join John Gairhan from IBM's Information Platform and Solution Group to kick off the MDM SIG with a live webcast. Learn how InfoSphere Master Data Management Server helps organizations realize the full benefit of their investments in customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and business intelligence (BI) systems, as well as integration tools and data warehouses.
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On demand webcast: Info 2.0 -- Harness the power of Web 2.0 and enterprise mashups
Become familiar with Info 2.0 and learn how to quickly build an enterprise mashup. You'll see how to pull information from databases, departmental information, and the Web to create mashups critical to your company’s success.
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Demo: Using IDS with the Eclipse Data Tools Platform and SQuirrel SQL
Learn how to use Informix Dynamic Server with two open source clients -- the Eclipse Data Tools Platform and SQuirrel SQL.
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 Java technology
Java technology zone | New to Java technology | Forums | Standards | Downloads | Tutorials
Dynamic programming and sequence alignment
Learn the basics of dynamic programming and discover how this advanced algorithmic technique can be implemented in the Java language as a research tool for molecular biologists. And hear author Paul Reiners talk about this topic in more depth in this new developerWorks podcast.
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Mastering Grails: Changing the view with Groovy Server Pages
Scott Davis continues his series on Grails by showing you how easy it is to use Grails TagLibs, mix together partial fragments of GSPs, and customize the default templates for the automatically generated views.
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 Lotus
Lotus zone | New to Lotus | Articles | Tutorials | Downloads | Forums
Creating RESTful Lotus Domino applications in a Web 2.0 world with Project Zero
Learn how to create RESTful Lotus Domino Web applications using Project Zero to deliver a responsive Web 2.0 application. This article explores the options you have for creating RESTful Lotus Domino Web applications, and shows you how to deliver them with the help of Project Zero.
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Designing composite applications: Writing an Eclipse component for Lotus Notes
This article introduces some helper classes so you can quickly build and deploy feature-rich, reusable, Eclipse-based components for Lotus Notes. You also learn how to create a foundation upon which you can create other components quickly and easily.
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IBM Customer Content Assembler
IBM Custom Content Assembler lets you search for topics, arrange them in any order you like, and then output the topics to a custom PDF or HTML file. This new proof-of-concept application lets you work with Lotus Connections technical and learning content to create custom HTML or PDF files.
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 Open source
Apache Derby resources | Apache Geronimo resources | Eclipse resources | PHP resources
ThinkPad aerobics: Rotate and shake your laptop to control applications
Learn techniques and code that connect accelerometer-enabled devices, such as ThinkPads with HDAPS sensors, to applications in a traditional desktop computing context.
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Eclipse at eBay, Part 1: Tailoring Eclipse to the eBay architecture
An insider explains how eBay uses Eclipse and custom plug-ins to build the next generation of the giant auction Web site. Use the lessons revealed here to tailor Eclipse to your needs.
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 Rational
Rational zone | Technical articles | Downloads | Forums | Training | Plug-ins | Tutorials
Tutorial: Model service-oriented architecture with IBM Rational Software Architect, Part 4: Use Case models
This tutorial series gives you a detailed look at modeling service-oriented architectures (SOA) by using IBM Rational Software Architect. This part covers the use case model.
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Transform 3270 green screens to Web services using Rational Host Access Transformation Services for Multiplatforms
This article shows how IBM Rational Host Access Transformation Services for Multiplatforms can help customers quickly improve the user interface of their existing System z applications and achieve integration with other IT systems with minimal development cost.
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Tutorial: Using RBD wizards to create a Web application to access a database
This tutorial shows you how to use the IBM Rational Business Developer Extension Data Application Access wizard to create a Web application that accesses a database (here, the STAFF table in DB2).
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Whitepaper: Delivering SOA solutions: Service lifecycle management
The key to a successful SOA implementation is managing and governing activities throughout the entire SOA delivery lifecycle by ensuring that services conform to the needs of all of the business's stakeholders. Learn a process for services that is manageable, repeatable, and auditable.
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Whitepaper: Achieving consistency between business process models and operational guides
Explore how Rational Method Composer and WebSphere Business Modeler together enable enterprise documentation in SOA environments. Specifically, a new integration now helps technical writers more easily keep enterprise operations manuals in sync with changes that are made to business processes.
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Webcast: iRise + Rational: Lowering the risks and costs of global development
Live: March 19, 2008 - noon Eastern Daylight time US (GMT-04:00)
Come to this webinar and learn how the iRise simulations coupled with Rational solutions help companies better elicit, communicate, and validate business requirements for custom applications, portals, and packaged software.
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 Web development
Web development zone | Ajax resource center | Tutorials | Articles
Tutorial: Create OpenSocial applications with Project Zero
Use Project Zero and OpenSocial to build a new type of social network: one that gives users the freedom to control their data and participate in third-party mashups.
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Must-have tools for HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax development and debugging
Use the best open source tools to work with Web pages, scripts, and styles, and make development of new sites and pages easy.
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 WebSphere
WebSphere zone | New to WebSphere | Articles | Downloads | Forums | Technical Journal
Portlet development using Representational State Transfer (REST) services and the Dojo Toolkit
This article focuses on the creation of a reusable reference design for creating Web 2.0-enabled portlets using REST services, the Dojo Toolkit, and JSR 168 portlets.
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IMPACT 2008 Smart SOA conference: April 6-11 in Las Vegas
More than 6,000 IBM customers and business partners will come together to set the pace for SOA innovation. IBM experts and more than 200 customer speakers will share their SOA experience and expertise in designing and implementing SOA solutions.
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Attend IMPACT 2008 Smart SOA conference and get a discount on WebSphere education
Attendees get a 20% discount off selected eligible WebSphere education courses. After attending the conference, you have until July 21 to register for your classes and until September 19 to complete them.
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ESQL code conventions in WebSphere Message Broker
Extended Structured Query Language (ESQL) is used in WebSphere Message Broker to define and manipulate data within a message flow. Use these ESQL conventions to create code that is easy to understand and maintain -- which is important, since up to 80% of the lifetime cost of software goes to maintenance.
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Implementing data translation with WebSphere Message Broker
A common requirement when designing an ESB solution is providing mapping and data translation services between service provider and service consumer. This article explains how to use a database to define a generic structure that supports data translation.
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Versioning and process dynamicity using WebSphere Process Server V6.1, Part 2
In Part 2, you learn how to apply process versioning concepts and other options for flexible, dynamic processes using examples that employ these techniques.
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Handling poison messages with WebSphere Application Server V6
Discover how WebSphere Application Server handles messages that an application cannot process, and how you can alter the default behavior.
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Generate a Web service client with Rational Application Developer and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
Learn how to upload a public WSDL document to WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, import it into a dynamic Web project in Rational Application Developer, and then generate a JSP client to consume the Web service.
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 XML
XML zone | New to XML | XML Exchange | XML forums | XML tutorials | XML top ten
Ajax for tables: Use Ajax to build tables, tabs, and gliders
Display data dynamically with several Ajax-based techniques that use tables, tabs, and gliders.
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XML processing in Ajax, Part 2: Two Ajax/XSLT approaches
Experiment with two more approaches to the Ajax weather badge. Both use XSLT transformations -- one on the server side and the other in the browser.
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Planning a Semantic Web site
Discover what you need to know to prepare your Web site for structured data to make it machine-readable and part of the Semantic Web.
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