This book describes 14 surefire strategies, as well as dozens of techniques and tips for charting a course through today's work environment and coming out at the head of the pack.

This is the definitive practitioner's guide to building enterprise-class J2EE Web Services that integrate with any B2B application and interoperate with any legacy system. Sun senior architect Ray Lai introduces 25 vendor-independent architectural patterns and best practices for designing Web Services that deliver outstanding performance, scalability, and reliability. Lai takes you to the frontiers of emerging Web Services technologies, showing how to make the most of today's leading-edge tools, from Java Web Services Developer Pack to Apache Axis.

Getting Microsoft Windows Server 2003 up and running, either as a standalone or as part of a multi-site, multi-server network is a formidable task for anyone. O'Reilly's no-nonsense guide, Learning Windows Server 2003, 2nd Edition, gives you just what you need to get the job done. It provides you with the nuts and bolts for installing, configuring, securing, and managing Windows Server 2003-plus, it has been completely updated for Service Pack 1 and release R2.

The expanded, updated version of this popular operations guide is packed full of practical information to help IT professionals plan the installation, deployment, and maintenance of Windows 2000 Server. In addition to updated material on core topics such as security, disaster planning and recovery, and interoperability with NetWare, UNIX, and Linux, it also includes new sections about Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server, scripting, all the features released in Service Pack 3, 128-bit encryption, and other vital topics. Appendices provide quick guides to interface changes and optional components in Windows 2000 Server.

Features detailed information on database programming, including ODBC and client/server technology. Covers hot new Internet and object-oriented programming features. Teaches beginning- and intermediate-level programmers how to write for the Microsoft Windows operating system using the Visual Basic programming environment.If you have chosen Visual Basic as your programming tool, let me be the first to congratulate you. Visual Basic is by far the most popular programming tool in history, and there are a lot of good reasons for this popularity. When Visual Basic was originally introduced, it was the first development tool that took Windows programming out of the realm of the specialist and brought it to a level where normal, intelligent people could get something useful done. The ideas of drag-and-drop interface design and event-driven programming are almost universal now, but Visual Basic was the first to make them available to the general programmer. There are plenty of Visual Basic imitators now, and some of them are quite good. In my opinion—and I am not alone—Visual Basic is still the leader of the pack when it comes to Windows development tools. You have made a wise choice.

Winston Churchill claimed the 'U-boat peril' was the only thing that frightened him during World War II. The U-boat was developed from a small coastal vessel into a state-of-the-art killer, stalking the high seas picking off merchant convoys, until the introduction of the destroyer escort, and the development of dedicated anti-submarine tactics provided a means of defence and attack against the U-boats. Gordon Williamson describes the design and development of these two deadly opponents, their tactics, strengths and weaknesses, weaponry and training. He provides an insight into the lives of the Royal Navy and Wolf Pack crews as they played their deadly games of cat and mouse on the high seas, gambling with their lives and the fate of the nations.

Операционные системы (ОС) семейства Windows Server 2003 являются эволюционным развитием серверной платформы Windows 2000 Server, также включившим в себя многие средства систем Windows XP. Нелишне напомнить, что ОС Windows 2000 имеют внутренний номер версии 5.0, а системы Windows XP вышли под номером 5.1. Семейство Windows Server 2003 (сборка (build) 2790) имеет версию 5.2. (Грубо говоря, можно считать, что версия 5.2 равна версии 5.1 плюс Service Pack 1 плюс серверные службы плюс обновления, вышедшие с момента появления Windows XP.) Семейство Windows Server 2003 включает в себя четыре редакции (версии) операционных систем (их назначения и характеристики рассматриваются ниже): Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition; Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition; Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition; Windows Server 2003, Web Edition. Несколько упрощая ситуацию, эти редакции можно рассматривать как различные конфигурации (комплектации) одного и того же "базового" ядра. Большинство системных сервисов поддерживается во всех редакциях, в то время как отдельные сервисы присутствуют или, наоборот, отсутствуют в более "мощных" моделях. В двух следующих разделах как раз и рассматриваются различия редакций Windows Server 2003 в плане функциональных возможностей и требований к аппаратным средствам. В этой книге мы будем рассматривать возможности и службы, единые для всех четырех версий, поскольку именно они представляют интерес для широкого читателя. Поэтому в книге используется общее имя "Windows Server 2003", за которым может стоять любая редакция ОС семейства Windows Server 2003. Системы Windows Server 2003 сохранили многие черты своих предшественниц — Windows 2000 Server и Windows XP, поэтому пользователям, знакомым с этими системами, будет легче освоить новую систему, чем пользователям систем линейки Windows 9x/ME.