Graham P. Harrison

Increasingly, technologists are asked by strategists to state the capability of Java within a distributed component architecture. The larger corporate platform is mixed and the owning, interacting businesses must implement a framework technical architecture in which present and future components can co-exist and change with minimum impact. Larger installations contain data and applications at corporate and departmental levels across a heterogenous computing environment. Technologists, thus, have to articulate some of the values and norms of the business strategist as the business and technology surfaces merge. This article outlines the typical components in a larger technical architecture framework and explores the contribution Java makes to realizing the key business ... (more)

Integrating AJAX with the JMX Notification Framework

AJAX and JMX are at opposite ends of the Systems Management stack. However, the emerging ubiquity of the AJAX model for rich browser clients has obscured the benefits the model provides in the architectural space for enhancing support patterns within the problem resolution pipeline. This article elaborates on an architectural benefit of AJAX that lets the management state be 'broadcast' t... (more)

Integrating AJAX with JMX: Opposite Ends of the Systems Management Stack

AJAX and JMX are at opposite ends of the Systems Management stack. However, the emerging ubiquity of the AJAX model for rich browser clients has obscured the benefits the model provides in the architectural space for enhancing support patterns within the problem resolution pipeline. This article elaborates on an architectural benefit of AJAX that lets the management state be 'broadcast' t... (more)

Prototyping an Advanced Calendar Class Using JavaScript

It is possible to create a very attractive look-and-feel prototype of a Calendar-based browser application in JavaScript, but to compete with tough-minded mainframe legacy systems such as MEMO requires a highly functional and scalable working prototype to justify the continued investment and potential encapsulation of a large mainframe system. After it was suggested that an existing MEMO-... (more)

Browsing the JDBC API

It is not easy to query the contents of a database without proprietary front end tools or a database-aware IDE. A database-aware toolkit should be able to connect to and work with a variety of databases (local and remote, application and corporate) without a shift in how we view the contents of different databases. Java and JDBC allow the builder to abstract the viewing of the data from t... (more)