DDJ, February 2005
Web Services


FEATURES

Java Web Services & Application Architectures
Eric J. Bruno
Eric use the Java Web Service Developer Pack to build a financial portal.

SOAs & ESBs
James Pasley
James examines Service-Oriented Architectures and the role of the Enterprise Service Bus when deploying SOAs.

Ruby/Amazon & Amazon Web Services
Ian MacDonald
The Ruby/Amazon toolkit is a high-level abstraction of Amazon Web Services for the Ruby programming language.

GIS Web Services and Microsoft Word
Keith Bugg
Here's a Geographical Information Systems application that lets you embed a map into a Microsoft Word document.

Java Cryptography & X.509 Authentication
Snezana Sucurovic and Zoran Jovanovic
Our authors use the Java Crypto API to implement X.509 authentication in a distributed system.

Building an Eclipse Web-Search Plug-In
Michael Pilone
This Eclipse plug-in lets you search DDJ's online archives.

Automating Localization
Hew Wolff
Converting existing systems to local languages can be a laborious process--making it ideal for automation.

Algorithms for Dynamic Shadows
Sergei Savchenko
Geometrically correct dynamic graphic shadows can add realism to your graphical applications.

Extending UML
Timothy E. Meehan and Norman Carr
Extended Activity Semantics (XAS) notation lets you model user interactions by extending UML.

Integrating Reporting Services into ASP.NET
David Lloyd
David designs and deploys a report using Reporting Services, a free add-on to SQL Server 2000.

New Syntax C++ in .NET Version 2
Richard Grimes
Richard examines how generics are declared in Whidbey C++ and how they relate to C++ templates.

Enhancing .NET Web Services
Eric Bergman-Terrell
SoapEx demonstrates how you can modify SOAP requests/responses and debug web-service calls with a network packet analyzer.


EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Inside the uIP Stack
Drew Barnett and Anthony J. Massa
uIP lets you to add network support to small form factor, DSP-based embedded systems.


COLUMNS

Programming Paradigms
Michael Swaine

Embedded Space
Ed Nisley

Chaos Manor
Jerry Pournelle

Programmer's Bookshelf
Martin Heller


FORUM

Editorial
Jonathan Erickson

Letters
by you

Dr. Ecco's Omniheurist Corner
Dennis E. Shasha

News & Views
Shannon Cochran

Of Interest
Shannon Cochran

Swaine's Flames
Michael Swaine