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)
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)
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)
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)
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)