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IBM security and privacy architects Paul Ashley and Sridhar Muppidi discuss strategies for integrating IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business and Web portals. They outline the functions, and describes some facets of integrating Access Manager with WebSphere Portal Server. They also talk about WebSEAL, Access Manager's reverse Web proxy.

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To create a UML activity diagram, you should iteratively perform these steps.

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UML activity diagrams are used to document the logic of a single operation or method, a single use case, or the flow of logic of a business process. In many ways, activity diagrams are the object-oriented equivalent of flow charts and data-flow diagrams (DFDs) from structured development. In this tip, learn when to use them.

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This step by step checklist guides you through demos, trials, articles and related resources to develop a Java application that uses pureQuery methods and see what's new in the Optim Development Studio 2.2

Create a sample enterprise application using Eclipse WTP, DB2 Express-C community edition, and two types of Web services.

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Learn how to take advantage of the open-source tool Cobertura using code-coverage best practices. Besides identifying untested code and locating bugs, Cobertura can optimize code by flagging dead, unreachable code and provide insights into how an API operates in practice.

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Some programs depend on a distinction between a null array and an empty array. What is often used to represent arrays in XML schemas does not have any such distinction. Is there anything you can do to get around this feature of XML? This article will show you.

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Technical guide to compatibility levels among the PowerPC families and what it means for programmers.

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This is an advanced and comprehensive application design, modeling and development tool for end-to-end software delivery. The latest version is updated with the latest in design and modeling technologies, comprehensive support for emerging technologies around SOA and Java Enterprise Edition 5, and delivers the best of breed tooling that integrates with IBM's product lifecycle management solutions. Rational Software Architect V8 replaces Rational Software Architect for WebSphere Software, Rational Software Modeler, Rational Software Architect Standard Edition, and Rational Modeling Extension for .Net.

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In this tip, Benoît Marchal discusses the different solutions available for passing binary data (typically files) to a Web service.

SOAP technologies usually exchange XML over HTTP, but SOAP has its pros and cons, and a lot discussion has focused on how to use XML more directly to communicate between applications. This tip describes the direct approach, and discusses where it is most appropriate. It also discusses how to use WSDL to describe such services.

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With the IBM_DB2 PECL extension, you have dozens of new functions available that you can use within your PHP application to access the power of this enterprise-level database. We describe here the functions you need most, with code samples to get you started.

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These user-defined functions imitate bit or Boolean data-type behavior.

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This tutorial focuses on the deployment of business integration applications and the configuration of server resources. You will follow a sample app from the design phase through deployment. Learn about how the Business Process Explorer is used as the interface to test and verify the deployed business process, and how the Common Base Event Browser, one of the business integration applications installed with WebSphere Process Server, is used to view events emitted to the common event infrastructure by the business process.

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When decision makers ask for your input on choosing the database server for a new branch, they probably want to know how the DBMSs compare in terms of programming and development costs. What will you answer?

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Satisfy your need for a no-cost WebSphere Application Server development runtime for projects that don't warrant the expense of a priced and supported runtime on the developer desktop.

The latest release of IBM's DB2 relational database system offers an unprecedented level of integration with the Microsoft Windows environment, making your job a lot easier. Here are some of the high points.

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IBM Rational Rose users seeking increased productivity, improved collaboration capabilities, and enhanced functionality should consider the more advanced features and functionality of the IBM Rational Software v7.0 tools. Learn why it pays to consider using or migrating existing Rational Rose projects to Rational Software Architect, Rational Software Modeler, and other tools.

Download the Rational Application Developer (RAD) v7.5 open beta code and start developing applications for the JEE5 standard which features EJB3.0, JPA, JSF 1.2, JSP 2.1 and Servlet 2.5 standards. When you use this beta you will see how you can increase developer productivity for already existing applications with improved support for refactoring, as well as adding new features to existing applications. In addition, the beta provides tooling for JD Edwards, Oracle, SAP, Siebel and PeopleSoft to improve the developer productivity with these enterprise systems.