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20 tutorials on different ways to create and test popup windows created in JavaScript including: Creating popup windows on page load or unload events; Creating popup windows on moving mouse over or clicking links; Creating popup windows as modal or modeless dialog boxes; Creating multiple popup windows on timed intervals; Creating customized popup windows; Keeping popup windows re-opening when they closed; Testing JavaScript performances.

This free JDK tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning JDK himself. It can be used as a tutorial guide for beginners or a reference book for experienced developers. Topics include Blowfish, Calendar, certificate, character set, cipher, client authentication, collections, datagram, Date, decryption, DES, digital signature, encryption, DOM, DSA, DTD, HTTP, HTTPS, J2SDK, Java, JCA, JDK, JDK 1.3.1, JDK 1.4.1, JDK 1.5.0, key store, keytool, Locale, message digests, MD5, private key, public key, RSA, SAX, secret key, SHA, socket, SSL, TLS, unnamed package, Unicode, UTF-8, X.509, XML, XSD, XSL

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The Framework for Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) was implemented to demonstrate the ease with which a JavaTM application may be designed to access a source code repository using a relational query language, such as SQL. The design was made general enough to accommodate easy access to virtually any data source. The framework supports parsing of the SQL query along with calculations supported within the SQL 92 standard specifications. Access to the data source is performed through the creation of a specific plug-in.

Jakarta's Digester maps data from an XML source to Java objects. Learn all about this package and its advantages over other similar APIs. Then follow a real life Digester parsing example.

The Internet has no doubt become the most popular source of information today. More and more businesses have adopted the Internet as the vehicle to display their business information, advertise their products, and maintain customer interactions. The activity of developing Web applications occupies a fair amount of resources, time, and effort.

Joe Walnes's XStream is a unique open-source Java library for serializing objects into XML and deserializing that XML into objects. Unlike other APIs, such as David Megginson's XMLWriter or Elliotte Rusty Harold's XOM, which use specific classes and methods to produce XML, XStream relies on Java idioms such as object names to produce element names and strings within classes to produce element content. It also produces a kind of reflection of objects in XML.

Borland Software Corp. has announced the imminent release of the latest version of its JBuilder IDE. What would have been JBuilder 10 will be known as JBuilder 2005, beginning a new naming convention for the popular Java IDE, which is scheduled to ship in September.

Sybase announced Monday the availability of PowerBuilder Enterprise 10.0, a new version of the company's rapid application development (RAD) tool that adds support for J2EE and Microsoft .Net.

The big story in app development for the past few years has been the competition between Microsoft’s .NET Framework and products that support the J2EE specs. Lots of people have talked about it, and many development organizations have been faced with this issue. To a large extent, the .NET vs. J2EE struggle has defined the recent app development landscape.

With demand for Microsoft SQL Server connectivity for Java applications growing steadily, and with many companies migrating their production platform from the 32-bit SQL Server 200 Enterprise Edition to the 64-bit versions of SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005, JNetDirect has added 64-bit support to two of its components.

The previous installments of this column gave you a thorough overview of JAXB, so you're now ready to study varying data binding implementations. This article begins an in-depth look at JaxMe, an open source implementation of JAXB. In addition to offering several enhancements to the basic JAXB specification, JaxMe offers integration with databases and Enterprise JavaBeans, both significant extensions to basic data binding behavior.

As the message of Java's robust health permeated the 2004 JavaOne Developer conference, an underlying message became clear: The opportunities for Java developer entrepreneurship are also alive and well.