DDJ, April 2003
Web Services



FEATURES

2003 Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award
by Jonathan Erickson
Don Chamberlin is the recipient of this year's Excellence in Programming Award for his groundbreaking work with SQL and (more recently) XML.

C++WSP: A C++ Web Services Platform
by Khushnood Naqvi and Yassar Sharaafath C.A.
C++WSP quickly exposes existing C/C++ systems as web services, and it's more elegant than JNI while avoiding the platform limitations of .NET.

J2EE 1.4 Web Services
by Aaron E. Walsh
Version 1.4 of Sun's Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is just about ready for release and its support for Web Services is one thing that sets it apart from previous version.

Memory Consistency & .NET
by Arch D. Robison
Understanding the basics of memory consistency is essential to writing multithreaded code that works on both uniprocessors and multiprocessors.

Cross-Correlation and Matched Filters
by Shehrzad Qureshi
Time-delay estimation of waveforms is of fundamental importance in signal-processing applications. Shehrzad uses matched filters, implemented via cross-correlation, to solve time delay problems.

Web Services & Datacenter Environments
by William F. Jolitz
Forget your cellphones and wireless PDAs. Web services can be used even more effectively in Internet datacenters to solve client communication errors and other such problems.


EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Managing Devices with XML-RPC
by Brett Porter
Brett presents a client-side monitor application (written in Python) that uses XML-RPC to monitor the state of a simulated device.


COLUMNS

C Programming
by Al Stevens
Al goes further with C++'s typename keyword—yet another underdocumented C++ feature.

Embedded Space
by Ed Nisley
Real-time Linux is Ed's focus this month, as he reports on the Fourth Real-Time Linux Workshop, among other topics.

Programmer's Bookshelf
by Gregory V. Wilson
Greg takes a look at Creating Applications with Mozilla, by David Boswell, Brian King, Ian Oeschger, Pete Colins, and Eric Murphy; Java NIO, by Ron Hitchens; Performance Analysis for Java Web Sites, by Stacy Joines, Ruth Willenborg, and Ken Hygh; and Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers, by J. Hank Rainwater.


FORUM

Editorial
by Jonathan Erickson

Letters
by you

The New Adventures of Verity Stob
by Verity Stob

News & Views
by Shannon Cochran

Of Interest
by Della Song

Swaine's Flames
by Michael Swaine