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Welcome to the inaugural issue of the ICEsoft Newsletter. This
publication is a forum to share ideas and high light pertinent articles
in the Java industry of relevance to Java application developers.
In this issue, we provide a sampling of articles addressing Web
Clients, Application development and Web Services. We also sprinkle
in some ICEsoft news. As this is intended to enhance your Java perspective,
we encourage your comments and feedback to editor@icesoft.com.
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| Web Clients |
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Integrated
Platforms Deliver Faster Time to Value
In the study conducted by Gartner Consulting for BEA, "Application
Platform Suites: An Architectural Cost Analysis”, an
analysis of enterprise applications implemented on integrated
and non-integrated platforms found that an integrated platform
significantly reduces time-to-market and IT costs for application
development, integration and ongoing operations. Read
more about these studies.
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What
Makes a Smart Client So Smart?
The term Smart Client was coined to highlight the differences
between the typical "Rich Client" applications of
yesteryear and the next generation of client applications.
To understand these differences, and to understand how they
are likely to change the face of client-side computing, it
is useful to take a trip down memory lane...go with David
Hill down memory lane and see what lies ahead for smart clients
here.
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| Web Applications |
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Building
Web Applications in WebLogic - from Chapter 1
Web applications are an important part of the Java 2 Enterprise
Edition (J2EE) platform, because the Web components are responsible
for key client-facing presentation and business logic. A poorly
designed Web application will ruin the best business-tier components
and services. In this chapter, we will review key Web application
concepts and technologies and their use in WebLogic Server.
Continue
this article.
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Application,
Heal Thyself
The debugger architecture—and the trend to make Java more
dynamic—means that programs could analyze and manipulate
themselves as they execute. Good unit testing and test coverage
analysis procedures can keep you from ever having to start up
a debugger. Java programmers may not use debuggers as much as
C++ programmers because Java's design discourages the occurrence
of certain errors. For examples go
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Quickstudy:
SOA by Russell Kay
An SOA (service-oriented architecture) is a computing structure
in which a software application contains only the logic specific
to its immediate task and uses a set of services on a network
to do more generic task
Given the buzz about SOA today, let's make a few important points:
The concept isn't new, it's not a technology per se, it isn't
just the use of XML and Web services, and it's a good deal more
than a development methodology. Want to read more from Computer
World’s editorial, click
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The
Rush to SOA - Vendors move to service orientation, but is
the enterprise being served?
Service-oriented architectures are on the minds and in the
presentations of many vendors these days. As scrambling hardware
and software vendors add to, modify or acquire technology
to SOA-enable their offerings, varied solutions are emerging
to help the enterprise arrive at what one analyst said is
the same end. The goal is to “deliver a service that’s
transparent to the user, and at the point in time when they
need that service, it’s not determined by or linked
to the underlying infrastructure,” said Mark Shainman,
an analyst with research firm Meta Group Inc. Read
more.
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| ICEsoft News |
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ICEsoft's
Technology Used by NASA's Mars Rover Mission
As NASA's twin Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are exploring
opposite sides of the Red Planet, ICEbrowser is allowing NASA
to seamlessly incorporate an HTML rendering engine into its
Web-based MERBoard, thereby supporting all its collaborative
sites. Read
more. |
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ICEsoft
Closes 2003 with Ten Million Units Deployed; Customer
Preference Grows for ICEsoft Java Platforms to Solve Web Java
Client Challenges
ICEsoft Technologies Inc., the leading provider of Java browser
and Java Web access software, closed 2003 with 10,000,000 units
of ICEsoft products installed with customers. A broad base of
companies is turning to ICEsoft technology as the client-side
solution for their Java-based enterprise applications and web
services. Read
more. |
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About ICEsoft
ICEsoft Technologies Inc. is the
world's leading provider of Java browser and Java Web access
software for enterprise applications, embedded systems and
Web services. ICEsoft and its ICEreader and ICEbrowser brands
are well known in the JAVA development community. Headquartered
in Calgary, Canada, ICEsoft has customers in over 35 countries
and is on the Web at www.icesoft.com.
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