This book does not provide any defined solutions or silver bullets. Integrating J2EE Platform applications with legacy systems is a difficult task that requires a thorough understanding of both legacy system applications and object-oriented design. We have tried to find a practical approach to applying the J2EE integration tier patterns in real-world situations, the main design principle being that of separation of concerns. Some of the designs described in this book are currently running in production, while others represent theoretical work that has not yet been tested in a full-scale production environment. We hope, however, that in reading this book you will gain valuable tools with which to start the long journey toward application integration.

Use this book to learn Dreamweaver MX, the latest web development tool, and publish impressive web sites, as well as learn about Dreamweaver MX’s built-in support for the ASP.NET, JavaServer Pages, PHP, and ColdFustion MX programming languages.

This text shows how the integration of PDM and SCM can help organizations quickly and efficiently develop new products and efficiently maintain and update existing products.

Natural language parsing was one of the main motivations from which Prolog was developed Metamorphosis grammars, designed by Alain Colmerauer at GIA Marseille, was the first logic-based formalism for natural language parsing These grammars have inspired a number of other logic-based grammar formalisms and implementations which are now commonly used and some of which are still under intense research. These formalisms are very close per se to Metamorphosis grammar, some of them were motivated by the need to enhance the ease of writing grammar rules, others support deeper linguistic motivations and concepts. Natural language semantics and pragmatics are now two major fields in linguistics, philosophy as well as artificial intelligence and, obviously, computational linguistics. Surprisingly enough, up to now, this area was somewhat neglected, except by a small number of researchers among us. With the development of large and efficient Prolog interpreters and compilers and with the expansion of the theoretical aspects of Logic Programming, the study of natural language semantics and related pragmatic aspects is now becoming a very attractive topic.

If you are unfamiliar with how standards are developed, the history of the Rexx Standard may give some insight. The idea of a standard was first promoted by Linda Green, the IBM representative to the SHARE organization at the time. There was enthusiasm for the idea at the very first Rexx Symposium, which allowed Linda to make a case to the authorities, who allowed Linda to convene the first meeting. This was attended by several of the parties with a producer or user interest in Rexx and they "bootstrapped" themselves to being a committee by suggesting Brian Marks as chairman, a choice subsequently endorsed by the Information Technology Industry Council which administers this class of standard.

This book was begun in Berkeley and completed in Charlotte, and the research was supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. It was a long time developing, and I’d like to thank the people who read and commented on it in various forms, in part or as a whole: Deborah Weiss, Ken Korey, Amos Deinard, Phyllis Dolhinow, Jonathan Beckwith, Alan Goodman, Jim Moore, Vincent Sarich, Phillip Johnson, Rika Kaestle, Debra Harry, SarahTishkoff, the participants in the 1999Wenner-Gren symposium called “Anthropology in the Age of Genetics,” and Regula Noetzli. Thanks as well to my editors at the University of California Press, Howard Boyer and Naomi Schneider.