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, transposes the text, then displays the transposed text to the user. For example, if a user enters th... (more)

Automatically Splitting EJBs with WebSphere Studio

Behind the scenes, client applications that interact with Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) do not interact with the remote methods of the EJBs directly. What actually happens can best be described as a complex, distributed process. Fortunately, the application developer is kept protected from this complexity. WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WebSphere Studio) 5 does an excellent job of automatically generating the necessary client proxy stub and remote skeleton code necessary for a distributed EJB setup to work. The one thing that is not so clear in this automatically generate... (more)

Apache James

In today's society, it's second nature to contact family, friends, and colleagues via e-mail. E-mail has become so integral to our daily ritual that we cannot stay away from it as we make use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other pervasive devices to have it readily available. How do these billions of digital messages get to users across the globe? A client/server setup is required to participate in the exchange of e-mails. It was just a few years ago that expensive server software packages were used for the typical e-mail solution. Cheaper solutions have been plagued by... (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 Developer v5 makes it easier to cater to crowds that speak different languages. As you'll see in this article, the concept of internationalization support is built directly into WebSphere Studio.... (more)

Keeping in the Know with JRas

JRas is a logging and tracing facility built into IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS), which relies on JRas as its internal logging framework. Programmers can also leverage this powerful logging system infrastructure to keep an eye on their enterprise applications powered by WAS. Developers can use the JRas Java APIs to generate both log and trace messages. Used properly, these two mechanisms can provide priceless information regarding the application's process of execution. In this article, the reader will learn to use JRas through the context of a sample application. The pro... (more)