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Sarbanes-Oxley: The New Rising Star Ineffectual corporate management has given a great gift to programmers, system administrators, and CIOs - endless corporate accounting scandals. Our federal government has not missed this scandalous behavior, as they have passed an extraordinarily strong, far-reaching law to contend wi... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 14,122

Five Steps to Successful Strategic Partnering The ability to develop and nurture strategic partnerships can make the difference between success and failure in the high-tech industry. Just ask independent software vendors (ISVs), a segment of the industry that earns more than 40% of its revenue through successful partnering. ISVs h... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 7,277

Economic Treason: The New Future? A trend begun on factory floors in an effort to replace low- and medium-skilled blue-collar workers so companies could save money, outsourcing has recently become a heated election-year issue. While it is difficult to hide plant closings and relocate their operations, it takes only a f... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 12,527  Replies: 1

JSR 168 - An Introduction to the Portlet Specification The Java Specification Request for the Portlet Specification (a.k.a. JSR 168), articulated by the Java Community Process in October 2003, aims to provide a standard for portlets that the portal arena has lacked. Portlets that are written to the JSR 168 spec will be deployable to any JS... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 16,387

HATS Off to Legacy Get ready for another acronym - HATS (Host Access Transformation Server). Let's begin with a notional conversation - an 'elevator pitch' of sorts - between two IT managers, Jim and Dennis. May. 5, 2004  Reads: 11,651

Getting Personal Whether you are a business user, an IT architect, or a developer using WebSphere Portal content publishing general personalization framework and WebSphere Commerce, you will need to know the difference between the personalized marketing campaigns created using these two sets of tools. ... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 7,752

IBM Middleware Helps Banks Deal with Challenges Banks are facing increasing pressure to reinvent and expand their businesses. They need to respond to increasing regulatory and security requirements, expectations for new levels of customer service, the broader globalization of markets, and price pressure on their services. May. 5, 2004  Reads: 13,868

Hunting Java Memory Leaks In a production environment, memory leaks can force organizations to add more memory and hardware resources. They can even cause an application to crash unexpectedly. In theory, Java memory leaks should not emerge as a development or production issue because the garbage collector is re... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 32,179

Migration: From Here to There to WebSphere Why migrate to WebSphere v5? Whether you are currently using WebSphere v3.5 or v4, or are using a different J2EE application server altogether, there are many reasons that justify the move. May. 5, 2004  Reads: 17,978

Keeping in the Know with JRas JRas is a logging and tracing facility built into IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) that relies on JRas as its internal logging framework. Programmers can also leverage this powerful logging system infrastructure to keep an eye on their enterprise applications powered by WAS. May. 5, 2004  Reads: 11,454  Replies: 1

Application Quality Is Vital I have noticed a need for a back-to-basics movement in the quality of J2EE and Web-based applications. Poor software development life-cycle processes, combined with the complexity of the J2EE technology stack, are resulting in IT applications that are too slow, fragile, or that are no... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 6,889