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These coding conventions for Extended Structured Query Language (ESQL) will help you develop ESQL code that is easy to understand and maintain.
This article is for developers using ESQL to implement message flow applications for deployment on WebSphere Message Broker.

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Deploy a Data Web service created by IBM Data Studio’s Data Web Services to a WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Web server.

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This article focuses on the creation of a reusable reference design for creating Web 2.0-enabled portlets using Representational State Transfer (REST) services and the Dojo Toolkit.

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Computer automated attacks on your Web site is costly and most sites today do little
to protect against these assaults. Adding a CAPTCHA to your site will steer away most computer
automated browsing in sections of your site you want to protect, such as user registration or
tell-a-friend emailing. This tutorial describes how to integrate two CAPTCHA solutions into your existing
WebSphere Commerce application to protect your Web site against computer automated attacks.

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Once an Ajax application is loaded, it subsequently fetches smaller fragments of data and content to avoid the overhead of re-rendering the entire page, thus improving performance. The tradeoff that enables this to happen is that the initial download of your application will usually take longer. This article looks at ways you can reduce the initial download time of your Dojo applications and still get great performance. (IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal)

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Learn how the WebSphere Business Services Fabric Dynamic Assembler uses
content, context and contract to dynamically select service endpoints. You’ll learn
how policies are used to select candidate endpoints, and how the Dynamic Assembler
handles policy conflicts and policy resolution.

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Java developers attempting to exert fine-grained control over access to application resources quickly reach the limits of built-in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) declarative authorization. Part 1 of this three-part series on Enum-based Authorization (EAz) described the basic architecture of a complete Access Control List (ACL) implementation in Java 5. Part 2 described the usage and implementation of an EAz authorization solution. Part 3 concludes this series by illustrating a technique for integrating EAz into a graphical interface, implementing a JavaServer Faces solution to the problem of using a Web application to graphically represent which discrete permissions are available to a user or group in a Web framework. (IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal)

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Deploying a real world distributed software solution can be complex and challenging. Typically, the software stack in each machine is composed of multiple software layers and the deployment is distributed over a cluster of machines, making software installation and configuration time consuming and potentially error-prone. Using IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager with virtual appliances can vastly simplify this deployment process. This article describes how, with an IBM WebSphere Application Server example that could have you create and capture a composite virtual appliance, customize, package, and deploy the solution in less than ten minutes. (IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal)

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Adding hardware doesn’t always improve failover and availablity for Web application requests. The first installment of The WebSphere Contrarian discusses why this is the case, as well as some possible alternatives. (IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal)

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In the first two articles in this series, you learned about the business
user experience in Web 2.0 dashboards, iterative development, simplified
installation and administration, and improvements to the IBM WebSphere Business
Monitor V6.1 Installer. This article, Part 3 in the series, demonstrates how much
easier iterative testing and developing is within the Eclipse environments, IBM
WebSphere Integration Developer V6.1, and IBM Rational Application Developer
V7.0.0.5.

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In this article, you learn how to use IBM Lotus Expeditor Toolkit to create a secured Web service and how to run it in IBM Lotus Expeditor Client; you also gain some basic knowledge about WS-Security.

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Using the WSDM support in the Feature Pack you can create your
own management program to manage WebSphere resources using a
standard Web services programming model. This article
provides sample code and shows you how.

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Part 1 and Part 2 of this three-part tutorial series showed you how to
develop Web services and clients, and configure HTTP basic authentication. In this
final installment, you create a self-signed certificate, keystore, trust store, and
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) configuration using the IBM WebSphere Administrative
Console. Then you configure HTTPS for your Web services and Web services client, and
test HTTPS Web services from both a Java EE client and a stand-alone Java client.

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WebSphere Voice Server integrates with WebSphere Application Server and provides voice authentication. This article explains how to tune an application to enable voice authentication.

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Looking for a central source for tuning your WebSphere Portal Web Content Management and DB2 environment? This article describes the different parts of the environment that are unique and require special consideration. You’ll learn how to tune the Application Server and WebSphere Portal. Furthermore you’ll learn about various registry variables and several database manager and database configuration parameters that should be set to specified values as a good start. Finally, the ongoing maintenance section contains guidelines on how to keep the DB2 system performing well as the system grows.

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This tutorial shows traditional application developers how to use IBM Rational Developer for System z to significantly increase their productivity and efficiency when creating and maintaining traditional mainframe applications. You download and then use example code, which uses CICS, VSAM, and DB2, in a variety of typical development scenarios including syntax checking and compiling. The techniques are illustrated using COBOL applications; however, similar steps can be used by PL/I programmers.

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This article discusses the configuration required to integrate WebSphere Partner Gateway and WebSphere Transformation Extender. You’ll learn about the different invocation methods that WebSphere Transformation Extender supports and when you should use each one with WebSphere Partner Gateway. You’ll understand how to use WebSphere Transformation Extender, Java JNI, and Java RMI APIs to integrate WebSphere Partner Gateway and WebSphere Transformation Extender.

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The final article of this series uses WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Business Monitor to deploy an end-to-end business process activity monitoring solution. You learn how to validate runtime events that flow to monitor using the CEI
event bus, configure the monitor dashboard portlets to monitor the application, verify that monitor server
is tracking events for the application, and test the end-to-end application.

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Learn how you can use WebSphere Integration Developer to create an interface
mapping between two Web services, then test the mapping with WebSphere Process
Server. This article also describes how to use the Service Data Objects (SDO) model
to manipulate data objects.

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In the third and final article in our series, we cover more advanced topics in the Spring Portlet MVC Framework, including form validation, file upload, and handling exceptions. We also cover internationalization and integration of Apache Tiles Framework with Spring Portlet MVC Framework.

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This article describes a technique to test data source-based components that are deployable in an application server (such as WebSphere Application Server Version 6.0.2), using JUnit on the IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.0 platform. The sample component in this article is a simple Java-based application that provides a simple user authentication service. The article is targeted at developers who are familiar with the JUnit framework, and who have working knowledge of Rational Application Developer.

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Learn how to dynamically manage service availability using WebSphere
Service Registry and Repository’s service life cycle governance model to
describe the status of a service and WebSphere ESB?s endpoint lookup mediation
primitive to query the registry for this information and select the
appropriate service endpoint dynamically at run time.

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This article provides a high-level tour of IBM Lotus Expeditor Toolkit. Learn how to install and configure the toolkit, how to import a sample into the tools, and how to launch the sample in the included Expeditor Test Environment.

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Do you find it challenging when key business terms cause confusion, back and
forth debates over what they (should) mean, delays, late changes, or even complete
failure in your SOA or data integration projects? This second article in the series "The information perspective
of SOA design" helps you eliminate these misunderstandings by introducing the concept
of a business glossary. Discover the
value of a business glossary in SOA and learn how to define and use it to communicate
more clearly with your colleagues.

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As part of a series exploring a real case scenario, this article covers the
security-related aspects concerning certificate-based XML standard encryption. Get
insight into XML standards and WS-Encryption. Step-by-step instructions show you how
to configure IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances and its extension functions to
promote a public key infrastructure (PKI), thus protecting the privacy of sensitive
data contained in portions of XML documents in transit. You should have a basic understanding of XML
and security-related concepts to follow along with this article.

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