Http Proxy Servlet
Both Flex and AJAX have Browser security restriction that can only allow them to access the web server where they originally come from. In order for your Flex and AJAX app to access the web service on the Net, you need to deploy a proxy onto the web server they can access. In PHP, you can [...]

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Web application events
In  servlet 2.3 spec, web application events are introduced that give you greater degree of control over your web application. The two important application events are:

Application startup and shutdown
Session creation and invalidation

As their names suggest, application startup event occurs when your web application is first loaded and started by the Servlet container and [...]

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Software development is an art to me. To develop an application to get the current job done may not pose a challenge. However, if you want to develop an application that can be easily extended for the future requirements, you may need to give it a thought before coding. This article is not going to [...]

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Enterprise without ECM

A search results in finding three or four documents with the same name, making it impossible to tell which is the correct version. This premise leads to the alarming statistic that 42% of employees accidentally use the wrong information at least once a week. Such mistakes can have a significant impact on a business.
Document [...]

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What should we look at for a machine?

CPU (how many core, how many physical cpu(s), how fast, 64 bits?, cache size)
Memory RAM
IO speed 

Dual-core CPU vs multiprocessor
A dual-core CPU is a CPU with two separate cores on the same die, each with its own cache. It’s the equivalent of getting two microprocessors in one. Multi-processor has 2 or [...]

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