This guide for intermediate to advanced developers focuses on the finer points of programming with Java. Although some chapters are related to technology traditionally used with the Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), most of the material is equally relevant to the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and the development of web applications. Sample topics

Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 introduce a new extensibility architecture. This is not an upgrade to an existing feature, but a brand new concept that nobody using an earlier version of Flash has seen or used before. With the extensibility tools, which include behaviors, custom-made tools and commands, the JavaScript API (or JSFL), and the XML-to-UI API, you can literally extend Flash to do things it cannot do out of the box. Things such as adding new custom commands to the menu and customizing the tool bar, adding brand new, custom created tools. The commands could be as simple as drawing a commonly used shape on the stage, or as complex as creating an entire new Flash movie from scratch. Tools take into account mouse actions and property inspector parameters. This allows you for custom shapes much as are seen in Microsoft Office, for example, stars, callouts, arrows, etc. These new features will not only allow users to share code and effects more easily within the community or a production environment, but will also allow developers to package up and reuse more within Flash than was ever possible before, increasing productivity and decreasing production times. Flash MX 2004, but the possibilities of what one could do with these are staggering. Virtually anything you can do in the authoring environment can now be written into a command or behavior.

The kid-friendly way to learning coding with Python Calling all wanna-be coders! Experts point to Python as one of the best languages to start with when you're learning coding, and Python For Kids For Dummies makes it easier than ever. Packed with approachable, bite-sized projects that won't make you lose your cool, this fun and friendly guide teaches the basics of coding with Python in a language you can understand. In no time, you'll be installing Python tools, creating guessing games, building a geek speak translator, making a trivia game, constructing a Minecraft chat client, and so much more. Whether you don't have the opportunity to take coding classes at school or in camp or just simply prefer to learn on your own Python For Kids For Dummies makes getting acquainted with this popular coding language fast and easy. It walks you step-by-step through basic coding projects and provides lots of hands-on tasks that give you a sweet sense of accomplishment when you complete them. What's not to love about that? * Navigate the basics of coding with the Python language * Create your own applications and games * Find help from other Python users * Expand your technology skills with Python If you're a pre-to-early-teen looking to add coding skills to your creativity toolbox, Python For Kids For Dummies is your sure-fire weapon for getting up and running with one of the hottest programming languages around.

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Nearly any application, you build, requires some form of output. Often the format of that output can change on a regular basis, creating a heavy maintenance burden, and a restrictive test cycle. By utilizing the power of the Velocity template engine you can integrate templated output into your application, decoupling the application logic from the output format. This book offers an in-depth look at Velocity. Youll start right off with configuration and setup and work through to full application development using Velocity, as well extensions to the Velocity framework. This is not just a book about Web development Velocity has many uses beyond being a simple replacement for JSP, and this book discusses and demonstrates many of these uses.

How does your work stand up in the freshly competitive environment of the Flash MX marketplace? How can you streamline your ideas to give them greater usability? Where can you take your ideas next? Macromedia Flash MX Studio takes your raw Flash talent and multiplies its potency by focusing it on real-world web design situations. In the heady days of the late 1990s, designers were trying their hand at anything and everything they could lay their hands on. Now the marketplace is seriously focused, and serious Flash designers have to know exactly what theyire doing and why. These days itis all about functionality over experimentation, justification over style. Itis all about Maturity. The design must fit the job spec, and this book shows the reader how to fulfil these requirements and more. This book examines all the avenues open to professional or aspiring professional Flash MX designers. It takes a look at advanced uses of the new MX features, such as components and the Drawing API, and gives guidance on building whole new structures for animation, Dynamic Content, PHP, ColdFusion MX, XML, video, audio and audiovisual formats. book is designed to put that power in your hands. Book Info Based around a single hands-on project for readers to build-constructing an effective Flash web site from scratch for a major commercial client. Softcover. CD-ROM included. From the Publisher Macromedia Flash MX Studio has been broken into four sections to address the most common needs for the Flash designer. First off, Jamie McDonald provides five chapters on site presentation and the principles of web design. These opening chapters take a look at how to create slick, professional-level sites, involving Flash MXis new drawing and motion capabilities and interactive techniques. The second section concentrates on ActionScript. Flashis resident coding environment is crucial to master, and taps into Flashis great strength n intuitive and interactive applications. Keith Peters and Todd Yard have buddied up on this section, and examine some of the most advanced ActionScript techniques around. Be warned n this section is not for the faint-hearted Section three takes a look at Flash MXis greatly improved visual, audio and audiovisual capabilities. building a single site aimed at displaying rich media content. The final section is devoted to expounding a few myths about dynamic content using Flash. Its four chapters talk about general practice, before focusing in on specific areas, including introductions to PHP and XML, together with a look at Macromediais brand new ColdFusion MX.

The days of Flash as a creative luxury are long gone. After months of downsizing, Flash creativity has been on a huge rationalization program. It is no longer enough to present animation in millions of colors and a hundred transparencies. It is no longer sufficient to provide interactivity and dynamism for their own sake. The purpose of this collection is to show how designers have taken Flash and made it work for its supper. What we discover is a series of creations that place Flash at the hub of cutting edge web content. The end result is a snapshot of Flash as the ideal medium. In these amazing examples, we see the software pushed to its limits to create unbeatable applications-a collapsible family tree, an interactive video learning system, and a drawing tool, capable of running online! Beyond this, we dip into the back-end capabilities to look at how to improve Flash still further. Some staple XML and PHP routines are brought in to add a bit of spice, while Flash's mysterious sharedObject command is hunted down and tamed to create a hybrid Tamagotchi houseplant-perfectly suited to lure surfers back to your website!

Have you ever poured all your creativity into a Flash movie, but found your friends grumbling at the download size? Have you tried to use just one tiny picture in your movie, and seen the file size go through the roof? Is it possible to do anything remotely effective in a small file? More than you could possibly imagine! This collection shows you just exactly what can be done with tiny Flash files, using some of the hottest Flash designers around. These authors pull designs out of the top drawer and show you exactly how you can go about creating great SWFs with the smallest amount of download pain. We will look at: creating incredible generative designs -- so small you can use them for wallpaper producing 3D animations that roll in at under 5k in size creating sound toys in the smallest possible file space de-mystifying the use of JPEGs and photographs while keeping your Flash movies small strategic use of back-end technology to keep your delivery times down to nanoseconds! changing the boundaries to look at new ways of delivering entire sites! From the Publisher Who is this book for You've worked with Flash, but are wondering why people are getting tetchy at the download time. You're willing to start learning some ActionScript tricks to fight the file flab, and you're not afraid to become addicted to optimization! About the Author Genevieve Garand Conceived 3weeksinApril.com, an experimental web site that explores new ways of navigation and features an engaging narrative. David Hirmes is a Flash developer living in Brooklyn, New York. Kip Parker Works through his own company Hi-Rise Limited and in collaboration with Anthony Burrill as Friendchip, which was established in 1998. Keith Peters Found Flash to be the ideal medium for creating graphics with code. Robert Reich lives in Hamburg, Germany. Flash became his favourite besides normal HTML and serverside driven website creation. He is working as freelancer for several firms. Roy Tanck Currently employed in Hilversum, as part of a team that creates innovative e-learning solutions. Within this environment, Flash is a great tool.

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RuleML 2003 was the second international workshop on rules and rule markup languages for the Semantic Web, held in conjunction with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). The aim of the RuleML workshop series is to stimulate research on all issues related to web rule languages and to provide an annual forum for presenting and discussing new research results. The Semantic Web is a major world-wide endeavor to advance the Web by enriching its multimedia document content with propositional information that can be processed by inference-enabled Web applications. Rules and rule markup languages, such as RuleML, will play an important role in the success of the Semantic Web. Rules will act as a means to draw inferences, to express constraints, tospecifypoliciesforreactingtoevents, totransformdata, etc.Rule markup languages will allow us to enrich Web ontologies by adding de?nitions of derived concepts, to publish rules on the Web, to exchange rules between di?erent systems and tools, etc. RuleML 2003 built on the success of RuleML 2002, which was held in c- junction with ISWC 2002, Sardinia, Italy. The proceedings of RuleML 2002 can be found at http: //www.ceur-ws.org/Vol-60/. Special highlights of the RuleML 2003 workshop were the two invited pres- tationsgivenbyPeterChenon"Rules, XML, andtheERModel"andbyHarold Boley on "Object-Oriented RuleML: User-Level Roles, URI-Grounded Clauses, and Order-Sorted Terms." This proceedings volume also contains an invited - per by Francois, Bry and Sebastian Scha?ert on "An Entailment Relation for Reasoning on the Web.""

Once you've got a web site up and running it is all too easy to sit back and relax. But how do you know you did a good job? How can you improve the site you have based on real user behaviour? Without getting feedback from your users, how will you find out how it's being used? Web traffic analysis allows you to gain some insight into your site users: where they come from, what pages they like, and how often they come back. However, as statistics are prone to being misinterpreted, your insight often has to be taken with a pinch of salt. This book takes you through the process of analyzing your traffic, without taking for granted the statistics that you generate. Assuming you have a web site, reading this book will help you learn: - The techniques for gathering data on your users - Standards and Guidelines you should adhere to when interpreting your data - What other sites are doing to ensure they respect the privacy of their users - Insight into how real sites use web traffic analysis - Major case case studies from BBC News Online, eBay, and ASPToday - Additional material from The Onion, SmartGirl, and The New York Times From the Publisher This book is for any web professional who wants to understand their site traffic. It's also for anyone with an interest in finding out where their site is most used, and how to make comparisons with other sites. To get the most from this book, you'll need access to log files for your web site as they contain the information we'll show you how to analyze. The book discusses the privacy practices of The Onion, SmartGirl, and The New York Times, as well as examining in detail the traffic analysis techniques used by BBC News Online, eBay, and ASPToday.

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Using and Understanding Java Data Objects is an application programmer's guide to the Java Data Objects (JDO) specification recently accepted by the Java Community Process. JDO provides a universal and transactional persistence service for objects. JDO will store and retrieve objects of nearly any application defined class using any data storage technology for which a JDO implementation is available. JDO completely encapsulates the details of the underlying data storage technology that is used. JDO has its own query language (JDOQL) that allows the programmer to find objects based on the fields and relationships of the object model. The syntax of JDOQL is similar to the syntax of Java itself. JDO increases programming productivity by simplifying and minimizing the code that must be written to store and retrieve object state. The use of JDO also allows the application to be ported across different data storage technologies. Like the servlet and EJB specification, JDO is a standard that will be implemented by competing software vendors. Several JDO implementations are currently available as third party products for relational databases and object oriented databases. of JDO. Part I is a guide to the JDO API, the JDO metadata, and JDO's byte code enhancement. Part II explains the use of JDO in several application deployment scenarios, including stand-alone, client-server, servlet, and EJBs. Part III is a tutorial explaining the example programs and learning tools supplied with the book.

This book aims to examine the possibilities for developing user interfaces that are driven by ASP. NET. It attempts to discuss and explore a range of techniques and approaches predominantly for creating Web sites and Web pages. This edition has been completely updated for ASP . NET 1. 1 and Visual Studio 2003. Homer shows readers how to build a site that allows the user to choose, customize and purchase a new car or truck from the world-famous Xrox Car Company. To do so, he focuses on the steps of requirements-analysis and design (though not in extreme detail), followed by planning and mapping out the site. Once the basic design in its place, Pro ASP. NET Web Forms Techniques, Second Edition will take a look at the development of the various resources that make up the complete site. It won't concentrate on the backend data processing tasks in any more detail than needed in order to get the site running. This book concentrates on the user interfaces, and using fairly simple data access techniques. You won't see detailed discussions of the workings of all of the . NET data access classes, or the long diatribes on catching and reporting concurrency errors. ASP. N applications, and attractive and exciting Web pages. The server-based post-back architecture, combined with the comprehensive array of server controls that are provided as part of the . NET Framework, allow developers to quickly build browser-based interfaces for Web sites and Web applications - using much the same event-driven approach as in traditional executable programs developed in languages like Visual Basic, Delphi and C++. Technology Abstract

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* This book appeals to a professional audience: Writers, database administrators, developers, and production staff, all of which have to capture or emit XML from existing documents or databases. * Describes the connection between XML and publishing; Explains how to use XML to create documents that may be published to many other formats. * Shows how to build an "XML round trip" for Adobe FrameMaker 7; Explains how FrameMaker's powerful formatting features lend themselves to publishing of XML documents-without rework.

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The age for using a simple text editor is long gone. The ever-growing complexity of Java and J2EE creates a need for Java development tools that offer more. If you want to be more productive with Java, you need a Java IDE. Oracle JDeveloper 10g is an IDE that enables you to develop Java applications with minimal effort. JDeveloper can do wonders for your Swing, JSP, Servlets, Struts, EJBs, and Web Services developments. In this indispensable guide, renowned author Harshad Oak puts the technology first, enhancing the text with sample applications that demonstrate how JDeveloper can simplify your developments using the technology. Oak also focuses on the Application Development Framework (ADF) that comes with JDeveloper 10g-a framework that will get your applications up and running fast. The book also delves into JDeveloper's many code optimization tools, demonstrating how to use them to find improper or resource-hungry code that requires your immediate attention. Oak continues on to discuss JDeveloper extensions that add even more value to JDeveloper.

Java has always been an excellent language for working with objects. But Java's text manipulation mechanisms have always been limited, compared to languages like AWK and Perl. On the flip side, a regular expressions package in Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) brings hope to the Java text mechanisms. This package provides you everything necessary to use regular expressionsall packaged in a simplified object-oriented framework.

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This title takes an in-depth look at performance tuning and optimization for ASP.NET applications. It can also serve as a reference for developers who are readying their ASP.NET Web applications for release, and who need to assess whether their application is achieving its optimum performance potential.

This book concentrates on the use of ASP.NET 1.1 and Visual Studio 2003 to build applications for Internet or intranet use, and looks at the possibilities that rich clients bring to both application design and a better user experience. In particular, the authors provide guidance through a range of ideas on how data can be used to drive Web applications, and how that data can be most effectively utilized at each level of the design. They take a practical approach when showing you to build task-specific components, Web pages and Web applications based on a server running ASP.NET. The book itself focuses on n-tier architecture design and the way it can be coded, using SQL Server as a data source and simple Web server hardware.

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This book uses ASP .NET and Visual Basic .NET to develop an intranet application that provides all of the features that users expect. The author base the sample intranet within the book on Microsofts free best practices example, the IBuySpy Portal, and show how one can rapidly create an application that makes good use of the advanced features of ASP .NET. A full explanation of the IBuySpy Portal architecture is provided, allowing readers to get the most out of the product. The authors look at how to customize existing portal modules as well as building some of their own. Along the way, readers will learn a wealth of techniques for ASP .NET development - everything from making effective use of stored procedures through to integrating with Windows security and creating an advanced user interface with ASP .NET Web Controls.

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