Kulvir Singh Bhogal

Having employees constantly connected to one's enterprise is vital to many companies. This is one of the reasons Research in Motion's BlackBerry has mustered a massive following (over three million users at the time of this article's writing) in recent years. BlackBerry addiction has become pandemic. In this article, you'll learn how to build, test, and deploy applications to Blackberry devices using WebSphere Studio Developer. WebSphere Studio Device Developer (hereafter called Device Developer) provides you with an integrated development environment (IDE) in which you can build, test, and deploy J2ME applications. For learning purposes, the sample MIDlet application you'll create following the steps in this article is pretty simple: it takes input text from a user, tr... (more)

J-Unit Testing in WebSphere

WebSphere Studio Application Developer, based on the Eclipse platform, is designed with the Java developer in mind. Extreme programming mandates that Java classes be unit-level tested in an automated fashion. Extreme programming takes a rather pessimistic (though frequently realistic) outlook on code. It assumes that if no automated test case is written for a given code artifact, then th... (more)

It's a Small World

Reality check: your code likely exists beyond the confines of your cubicle. In today's world - made smaller via the marvels of modern society - it is likely that your code will transcend borders or be seen by individuals who might not necessarily understand English. Not catering to these individuals can close the doors on a huge untapped market. Fortunately, WebSphere Studio Application D... (more)

JSR 168 - An Introduction to the Portlet Specification

The Java Specification Request for the Portlet Specification (a.k.a. JSR 168), articulated by the Java Community Process in October 2003, aims to provide a standard for portlets that the portal arena has lacked. Portlets that are written to the JSR 168 spec will be deployable to any JSR 168-compliant portal. The spec in essence defines a contract between a portlet and the portlet contai... (more)

Say That Again... (In a Different Language)

The phenomenon of globalization has unearthed a major question. With a huge market of non-English speaking customers, how can we facilitate communication to such a large subset of individuals without paying an arm and a leg for translation? In this article, we'll introduce you to IBM WebSphere Translation Server (WTS) for Multiplatforms v5.0. As you will see, WTS can address the translat... (more)