Andrew J. Bradfield

Today, more than ever, enterprises are faced with the necessity of migrating applications from one platform to another. Here, we try to take some of the pain out of migrating a database application written in Java to ADO.NET. In this article we compare the various database API calls in JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) and ADO.NET (ActiveX Data Objects) side by side to enable an application programmer to easily migrate a database application written in Java to ADO.NET. We also discuss which API calls are better suited to various situations in order to help application programmers understand when to use which API. We provide snippets of code throughout the article to enable a better understanding of the richness of the database API, what type of information is returned from the various API calls, and how this information can be used. A transformation from the use of J... (more)

Stretching UDDI

UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) is fast becoming a standard for storing business processes available on the Web. Although UDDI is capable of storing many different types of data, for the purposes of this article I'll focus on how UDDI can be used to register Web services, thereby making them available for application-level consumption. What Is Covered? This article provides Java developers with a fast and simple way to develop their own UDDI Java applications to consume Web services registered within a UDDI Registry. The sample code (the source code is onl... (more)