This book is a quick guide to getting started with Oracle Business Intelligence SE platform that will answer common business questions and help you make quick business decisions. The examples in this book will help you prepare the database for analysis and create business reports in no time. If you are an business analyst, a report builder, a...
When it comes to modeling, this book is not just another pretty face! It guides you gently through the complexities of UML, helps you adjust to the UML 2 standard, shows you how to extract key information from UML models, and more. Before you know it, you'll be communicating and developing systems like never before.
Use design patterns to develop real-world Java™ distributed and Enterprise applications
This third volume from Mark Grand features 38 design patterns for developing real-world Java distributed and enterprise applications. Some of the key concepts covered are reliable transaction processing, distributed objects, reliable message passing,...
Learn how to gain the edge of providing the most reliable service-level guarantees to customers
Network and service provider engineers are often faced with the difficult challenge of meeting a less-than-logical service need of a customer–– and at the most reasonable price. In this book, Howard Berkowitz shows network and service...
Object-Oriented Design with Applications has long been the essential reference to object-oriented technology, which, in turn, has evolved to join the mainstream of industrial-strength software development. In this third edition--the first revision in 13 years--readers can learn to apply object-oriented methods using new paradigms...
Written by industry thought leaders, Java Web Services Architecture is a no-nonsense guide to web services technologies including SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and the JAX APIs. This book is the trusted advisor to systems architects and provides an unbiased look at many of the practical considerations for implementing web services including authorization,...
One of the biggest sources of pain in system development is “system integration and test.” This is frequently where projects sailing along with all-green progress reports and Earned Value Management System status summaries start to see these indicators increasingly turn to yellow and then to red. Projects that were thought to be 80...
Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling guide to Microsoft's unified platform for developing modern service-oriented applications on Windows. Hailed as the definitive treatment of WCF, this book provides unique insight, rather than documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for...
Networks today have outgrown exponentially both in size and complexity, becoming
more multifaceted and increasingly challenging to secure. The blueprint of a core network
requires a strong foundation, which can be simply provided with an integrated firewall
architecture cemented at the core of the system. Today, the firewall has become...
According to Wordnet, a rule is “a principle or condition that customarily
governs behavior” or “a prescribed guide for conduct or action.” Businesses, and
organizations in general, operate under a number of rules: rules about what services
to offer and to whom; rules about how much to charge for those services;...
The expansion of our reliance on software in many aspects of modern society
has coincided with a number of incidents in aeronautics, astronautics,
transportation, medical devices, energy generation, banking and finance.
Failures caused by software have introduced more than just inconvenience,
but significant property damage,...
