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Smart phone battle: Qwerty vs touchscreen

News Two-thirds of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said they prefer the Qwerty keyboard over the latest touchscreen interfaces, such as the iPhone. Apple may be set to release the new super-duper all-singing 3G iPhone this summer but RIM...

Tags: iphone, blackberry, qwerty

[22 May 2008]

Leveraging the WebRowSet Object to Deliver Web Content: An Architectural Study of Producing HTML From WebRowSet Objects Using Client-And Server-Centric Approaches

whitepaper With J2SE Version 5.0, reference implementation classes of the interfaces ship with the run time. The WebRowSet interface was introduced in the Java language in Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) Version 1.4.

Tags: xml

[22 May 2008]

Insight and Outlook, Part 1: Why and When Should You Choose SOA? - IBM Technical Leaders Answer Pressing Questions About IT Architecture

whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become a de facto standard for developing component-based applications that can be accessed over the network (whether the Internet or some other network) using standard interfaces.

Tags: web services

[22 May 2008]

Saur Improves Administrative Effectiveness, Optimizes Purchasing and Boosts Negotiating Power

whitepaper Saur group wanted to modernize a diverse management system made up of obsolete applications with too many interfaces and accelerate writing entries to the accounts. Working alongside local and regional authorities, the Saur group designs and...

Tags: erp

[22 May 2008]

Architecting on Demand Solutions, Part 20: Develop Task-Processing Portlets With New Tooling in IBM Rational Application Developer - Automatic Creation of JSF-Based Task Portlets to Enable Human

whitepaper Developers need to provide interfaces to support human interaction with business processes, such as filling out forms or responding to alerts. In an on demand business environment, efficient customer, employee, and supplier interaction is critical.

Tags: portals

[22 May 2008]

DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH Migrates 3900 GroupWise Users to Lotus Notes on Sun

whitepaper To reduce its total cost of ownership, DFS decided to migrate completely to Notes as its centralized strategic platform and to expand its use to include workflow applications, making use of the solution's standard interfaces to SAP and Oracle as...

Tags: sun solaris

[22 May 2008]

Insight and Outlook, Part 4: What's the Best Software to Implement as a Service if You're Just Starting SOA? - IBM Luminaries Provide Personal Insight Into Advancing the Practice of IT Architecture to

whitepaper One needs to create individual software-based services - tasks or sets of tasks, written as software components, that provide services to other applications over the network through published and discoverable interfaces.

Tags: web services

[22 May 2008]

The Spring Series, Part 4: 1-2-3 Messaging With Spring JMS - Spring JMS Makes Enterprise Messaging a Walk in the Park

whitepaper In cases that require more sophisticated usage, the classes delegate the essence of the processing task to user-implemented callback interfaces. Spring's JMS abstraction framework simplifies the use of JMS APIs and smoothly integrates with JMS...

Tags: java

[22 May 2008]

Node and Host Name Sizes on HP-UX: Using the Expanded Capabilities of HP-UX

whitepaper HP-UX 11i v2 and v3, as well as later versions, provides expanded system node and host name interfaces. This capability allows longer node and host names than were previously supported. HP has provided this enhancement to support the system naming...

Tags: hp-ux

[21 May 2008]

Introducing WebSphere Service Registry and Repository APIs: Sample Code for Registry and Repository Programming APIs

whitepaper This paper focuses on the Java J2EE EJB interfaces and includes comprehensive sample code that shows everything from the most basic document storage and retrieval through running a governance life cycle against a related collection of objects.

Tags: java

[20 May 2008]

SCA Application Development, Part 1: An Overview of Service Component Architecture

whitepaper SOA designs solutions as assemblies of services, which are connected through well-specified interfaces and contracts. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a framework that combines individual business functions and processes, called services, to...

Tags: web services

[20 May 2008]

IBM SAP Technical Brief: Tuning SAP / Oracle / pSeries

whitepaper While there are other causes of problems in SAP (e.g.network performance, external RFC interfaces, SAP instance configuration, SAP sort, etc), database and ABAP performance are the most common and generally have the biggest impact.

Tags: unix

[18 May 2008]

RIM co-CEO: Qwerty is the next big thing

Comment On touchscreen interfaces… BlackBerry-maker RIM has been very busy this week hosting the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Florida. One of the announcements causing the biggest stir was the BlackBerry Bold - touted by some as the device to...

Tags: mike lazaridis, touchscreen, blackberry, rim

[16 May 2008]

Add Power to Word Searches With Regular Expressions

whitepaper The user interfaces vary slightly between the versions, but one can accomplish the tasks described here with each version. One can automate many of those find-and-replace tasks. Microsoft Word provides a set of wildcard characters that one can use...

Tags: search strategies

[16 May 2008]

Building Supply-Chain Business Agility From Within: The HP/Compaq Merger

whitepaper A comprehensive set of adapters facilitates communication between traditionally isolated applications, eliminating the need for custom-written interfaces. HP's Information Technology organization (HP-IT), chartered with providing IT-related...

Tags: business management, multi, store, custom

[16 May 2008]

Best Practices for Service Interface Design in SOA, Part 1: Exploring the Development, Interfaces, and Operation Semantics of Services

whitepaper Service interface structure is of primary importance in SOA because poorly designed service interfaces can have a negative effect on all applications that need to use them. Well-designed service interfaces can accelerate project schedules and make...

Tags: web services

[15 May 2008]

Cost Comparison Between IP-Over-DWDM and Other Core Transport Architectures

whitepaper Cisco recommends an alternative architecture called IP over DWDM, which eliminates the need for Optical to Electrical to Optical (OEO) conversion equipment between the router and the optical layer (including both transponders and SONET gear) by...

Tags: core, optical, layer, router

[15 May 2008]

NHS puts brakes on electronic record system

News A report evaluating the trial rollout of the Summary Care Record (SCR) system highlighted concerns that the system was clunky, interfaces poorly with other systems and was being foisted upon patients without their full knowledge.silicon.com Public...

Tags: nhs, cfh

[14 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die...

Comment That 1TB storage unit my son built with four 250GB hard drives in a PC frame at a cost of £3,000 just eight years ago can now be replaced by a much smaller box complete with power supply and all interfaces for a mere £130.

Tags: storage, innovation, technology costs

[14 May 2008]

Applying an Analytical Framework: Organize and Reuse Valuable Techniques, Tools, and Examples

whitepaper Learn how to use analytical frameworks to one's advantage in various software development areas, from security, messaging and user interfaces, to hiring and training personnel. Modeling complex software and business systems can be a challenging task.

Tags: application development

[14 May 2008]

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