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Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:00:58 GMT

Spring addresses most aspects of Java/Java EE application development and offers simple solutions to them. By using Spring, you will be lead to use industry best practices to design and implement your applications. The releases of Spring 2.x have added many improvements and new features to the 1.x versions. Spring Recipes: A Problem–Solution Approach focuses on the latest Spring 2.5 features for building enterprise Java applications.

Spring Recipes covers Spring 2.5 from basic to advanced, including Spring IoC container, Spring AOP and AspectJ, Spring data access support, Spring transaction management, Spring Web and Portlet MVC, Spring testing support, Spring support for remoting, EJB, JMS, JMX, E–mail, scheduling, and scripting languages. This book also introduces several common Spring Portfolio projects that will bring significant value to your application development, including Spring Security, Spring Web Flow, and Spring Web Services.

The topics in this book are introduced by complete and real–world code examples that you can follow step by step. Instead of abstract descriptions on complex concepts, you will find live examples in this book. When you start a new project, you can consider copying the code and configuration files from this book, and then modifying them for your needs. This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch.

What you’ll learn

Installing the Spring framework and Spring IDE, using the Spring IoC container and the Spring application context.
Understanding AOP concepts, using classic and new Spring AOP, integrating Spring with AspectJ, and load–time weaving aspects.
Using Spring to simplify data access (with JDBC, Hibernate, and JPA) and manage transactions programmatically and declaratively.
Building web applications and portlets with Spring Web MVC and Portlet MVC, and integrating Spring with Struts, JSF, and DWR.
Understanding the unit testing and integration testing concepts, and Spring’s unit and integration testing support (on JUnit 3.8, JUnit 4, and TestNG).
Using Spring’s support for remoting technologies (RMI, Hessian, Burlap, and HTTP Invoker), EJB, JMS, JMX, E-mail, scheduling, and scripting languages.
Understanding security concepts (authentication, authorization, and access control), and securing web applications using Spring Security.
Managing complex web application page flows using Spring Web Flow, and integrating Spring Web Flow with JSF.
Exposing contract–last web services using XFire, and developing contract–first web services using Spring Web Services.

Introduction to Simulink with Engineering Applications, Second Edition

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:53:07 GMT

This text is an introduction to Simulink ®, a companion application to MATLAB ®. It is written for students at the undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as for the working professional.

The author claims no originality of the content, and the description of the Simulink blocks is extracted from The MathWorks™ documentation without intent to infringe. The intent is to provide a complete reference text, and whenever necessary, the author refers the reader to The MathWorks™ documentation. Whenever there is a conflict between this text and The MathWorks™ documentation, the latter takes precedence.

Although some previous knowledge of MATLAB would be helpful, it is not absolutely necessary; Appendix A of this text is an introduction to MATLAB to enable the reader to begin learning both MATLAB and Simulink simultaneously, and to perform graphical computations and programming.

Chapters 2 through 19 describe the blocks in all Simulink Version 7.1 libraries. Their application is illustrated with Simulink models that contain the pertinent blocks, and some are supplemented with MATLAB functions, commands, and statements. Some background information is provided for lesser known definitions and topics. Chapters 1 and 20 contain several Simulink models to illustrate various applied math and engineering applications. Appendix B is an introduction to masked subsystems, and Appendix C introduces the reader to random generation procedures. Appendix D is an introduction to Weighted Moving Averages.

This text supplements our Numerical Analysis Using MATLAB and Excel, ISBN 978−1−934404−03−4. It is self-contained; the blocks of each library are described in an orderly fashion that is consistent with Simulink’s documentation. This arrangement provides insight into how a model is used and how its parts interact with each another.

Like MATLAB, Simulink can be used with both linear and nonlinear systems, which can be modeled in continuous time, sample time, or a hybrid of these. Examples are provided in this text. Most of the examples presented in this book can be implemented with the Student Versions of MATLAB and Simulink. A few may require the full versions of these outstanding packages, and these examples may be skipped. Some add−ons, known as Toolboxes and Blocksets can be obtained from The MathWorks,™ Inc., 3 Apple Hill Drive, Natick, MA, 01760-2098, USA, www.mathworks.com.

To get the most out of this outstanding application, it is highly recommended that this text is used in conjunction with the MATLAB and Simulink User’s Guides. Other references are provided in the reference section of this text.

Practical Guide to Clinical Computing Systems: Design, Operations, and Infrastructure

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:24:49 GMT

The development of clinical computing systems is a rapidly growing priority area of health information technology, spurred in large measure by robust funding at the federal and state levels. It is widely recognized as one of the key components for reducing costs and improving the quality of care. At the same time as more and more hospitals and clinics are installing clinical computing systems, major issues related to design, operations, and infrastructure remain to be resolved. This book tackles these critical topics, including system selection, configuration, installation, user support, interface engines, and long-term operation. It also familiarizes the reader with regulatory requirements, budgetary issues, and other aspects of this new electronic age of healthcare delivery.

It begins with an introduction to clinical computing and definition of key terminology. The next several chapters talk about system architecture and interface design, followed by detailed discussion of all aspects of operations. Attention is then given to the realities of leadership, planning, oversight, budgeting, and employee recruitment. This invaluable resource includes a special section that talks about career development for students and others interested in entering the field.

*Provides a complete overview of practical aspects
*Detailed guidance on the design and operation of clinical computing systems
*Discusses how clinical computing systems relate to health care organization committees and organizational structure
*Includes numerous real-life examples with expert insights on how to avoid pitfalls

Communicating Process Architectures 2005 (Concurrent Systems Engineering Series)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:14:34 GMT

The awareness of the ideas characterized by Communicating Processes Architecture and their adoption by industry beyond their traditional base in safety-critical systems and security is growing. The complexity of modern computing systems has become so great that no one person – maybe not even a small team – can understand all aspects and all interactions. The only hope of making such systems work is to ensure that all components are correct by design and that the components can be combined to achieve scalability. A crucial property is that the cost of making a change to a system depends linearly on the size of that change – not on the size of the system being changed. Of course, this must be true whether that change is a matter of maintenance (e.g. to take advantage of upcoming multiprocessor hardware) or the addition of new functionality. One key is that system composition (and disassembly) introduces no surprises. A component must behave consistently, no matter the context in which it is used – which means that component interfaces must be explicit, published and free from hidden side-effect. This publication offers strongly refereed high-quality papers covering many differing aspects: system design and implementation (for both hardware and software), tools (concurrent programming languages, libraries and run-time kernels), formal methods and applications.

The Definitive Guide to Terracotta: Cluster the JVM for Spring, Hibernate and POJO Scalability

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:11:04 GMT

Get the definitive guide on all the fundamentals of Terracotta as well as user secrets, recipes, and prepackaged frameworks.

Written by Terracotta CTO Ari Zilka and his team, The Definitive Guide to Terracotta: Cluster the JVM for Spring, Hibernate and POJO Scalability covers the following:

High Availability (HA) nth degree scaling and clustering for traditional J2EE and Java EE 5 applications (using Seam or other application) as well as Spring–based enterprise applications
Everyday Terracotta using its prepackaged frameworks and integration recipes, including configuration and customization for your application tuning, no matter the scale
Power user secrets available, including config modules, customized advanced performance tuning, SDLC, Maven, and more

What you’ll learn

See how Terracotta works fundamentally, and the user pieces and parts necessary for using Terracotta and its open source options.
Learn and apply case studies involving distributed cache, Hibernate, Master/Worker, and HTTP Session.
Understand thread coordination and advanced performance tuning.
Use more advanced case studies involving Spring, POJOs, FOO, and more.
Configure and create your own modules using the software development and deployment life cycle.

Who is this book for?

This definitive book from the Terracotta team is for both developers and architects who want to learn the “whats, wheres, whens, and whys” of the Terracotta scaling engine.

About the Author

Terracotta, Inc. delivers plug–in capacity and availability for Java applications at runtime with no application code changes. Terracotta simplifies development, deployment, testing, and management by moving clustering and caching services to the JVM instead of the application. With Terracotta, Java applications are highly available, have linear scale, and improved performance. Terracotta customers include industry leaders in the financial services and telecom sectors. Founded in 2003, Terracotta is a private firm headquartered in San Francisco.

Integration-Ready Architecture and Design: Software Engineering with XML, Java, .NET, Wireless, Speech, and Knowledge Technologies

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:07:43 GMT

One might think that the software industry is performing very well because it is armed with object-oriented approaches, Web services, Java and .NET technologies, and so forth. Unfortunately, this is not true.

There may be something wrong with the way we write programs. The process has not changed much during the past twenty years, except that applications and tools are getting bigger. Yet are they better and more scalable? Do they require any common sense? Can they be reused in different circumstances?

If these things were true, I do not think we would be rewriting the address book, schedule, order, and inventory applications over and over again instead of moving to new, untouched tasks. We would be able to accumulate the professional knowledge gained by millions of knowledge workers (everyone who manages information flow on a daily basis) instead of routinely losing it, as we do today. We would also not be facing the current IT crisis.

We could even have had more precise and direct access to the market’s supply and demand, which would have reduced the glaring inefficiencies of the software marketplace of the 1990s. A big change is required to return investors’ confidence to IT, and, hopefully, the change is coming.

Yes, technology can help economic stability if applied with precision. Sometimes I wonder why big companies are constantly growing bigger while small ones tend to disappear. Why do corporations prefer doing business with a few vendors, or often a single vendor, even when it is an expensive one? One of the reasons is that the integration of multiple vendors’ products would be even more expensive.

Practical Django Projects (Pratical Projects)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:44:18 GMT

Build a django content management system, blog, and social networking site with James Bennett as he introduces the popular Django framework. You’ll work through the development of each project, implementing and running the applications while learning new features along the way.

Web frameworks are playing a major role in the creation of today’s most compelling web applications, because they automate many of the tedious tasks, allowing developers to instead focus on providing users with creative and powerful features. Python developers have been particularly fortunate in this area, having been able to take advantage of Django, a very popular open source web framework whose stated goal is to “make it easier to build better web applications more quickly with less code.”

Practical Django Projects is the first book to introduce this popular framework by way of a series of real–world projects.

What you’ll learn

Capitalize upon Django’s well–defined framework architecture to build web applications faster than ever before.
Learn by doing by working through the creation of three real–world projects, including a content management system, blog, and social networking site.
Build user–friendly web sites with well–structured URLs, session tracking, and syndication options.
Let Django handle tedious tasks such as database interaction while you focus on building compelling applications.

Who is this book for?

Web developers seeking to use the powerful Django framework to build powerful web sites.

Related Titles

The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right
Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional

About the Author

James Bennett is a web developer for the World Company of Lawrence, Kansas, and is a major contributor to the Django project. His current role within the Django community is as the software project’s release manager.

Engineering Wireless-Based Software Systems And Applications

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:41:49 GMT

This comprehensive resource offers professionals detailed guidance on the engineering aspects of building software for wireless communications. From design and architecture to security and testing, the book shows how to overcome every engineering challenge encountered in successfully developing wireless software. Filled with open-source code examples, this handy reference provides practical, ready solutions for building software applications that make wireless networks work. It covers such hot applications as wireless information systems, wireless advertising and marketing, wireless payment systems, location-based portals, and mobile trading and sales systems. The book also explains how to integrate these applications into wireless LANs, personal wireless networks, and 3G and 4G wireless networks. Written for software developers and architects at all levels, this volume includes hands-on tutorials that take readers through each phase of wireless software development and implementation.

About the Author

Jerry Zeyu Gao is an associate professor of the department of computer engineering at San Jose State University. He has published two other software engineering books, including Testing and Quality Assurance for Component-Based Software (Artech House, 2003), and 55 technical papers in IEEE/ACM journals, magazines, and international conferences. He is the co-chair for the First and Second IEEE International Workshops on Mobile Commerce and Services. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Arlington

Simon S.Y. Shim is an associate professor of the department of computer engineering at San Jose State University. He has published more than 40 technical papers in IEEE/ACM journals, magazines, and international conferences. He co-chaired IEEE International Workshops on Mobile Commerce and Services.

Xiao Su is an assistant professor in the Computer Engineering Department, San Jose State University. She received her B.E. in computer science and engineering from Zhejiang University in China, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has published over 20 articles in IEEE and ACM sponsored journals and conferences. She has served as publication chair, publicity chair, and technical program committee member for several well-respected international conferences.

Hsing Mei is an associate professor in the department of computer science and information engineering at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan. He is also a visiting professor at Inter-University Institute of Macau. His research interest includes web computing, mobile wireless software, and distributed systems. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Beginning Groovy and Grails: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:39:27 GMT

The year 2005 was a traumatic year for the Java web application development community. It was under fire for the unnecessary “fat” architecture of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) systems compared to the new kids on the block like Ruby on Rails and Django. The search began for Java’s answer to these frameworks. I had an existing product that was heavily invested in Java frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate, but because I had been involved with the Groovy team for a while, I knew we could create the solution that people were looking for. Hence, Grails was born.

I knew Groovy itself was a phenomenal piece of technology that combined the best of the dynamic language worlds and Java. Innovation has been rife within the Groovy community since the early days with its builder concept. It had inspired other languages, and more recent languages such as ActionScript 3 and ECMAScript 4 had adopted its support for mixed typing. Groovy had proven to me that you can mix a dynamically typed language like Groovy with a statically typed language like Java in the same code base and get the best of both worlds without incurring the cost of context switching.

In addition, I knew that the Java community has invested years in building the largest amount of open source software in the world. Thousands of libraries exist for Java, built by years of best practice. Reinventing the wheel seemed like a crazy idea. Building Grails on top of existing technologies like Spring and Hibernate has proven to be one of the best decisions we have made. For me, Grails is the natural next step for Java EE developers. If Spring and Hibernate provided an abstraction over Java EE and simplified development, then Grails is an abstraction over Spring, Hibernate, and Java EE that can take you, the developer, to the next level.

Through the use of domain-specific languages and higher-level abstractions, Grails dramatically simplifies web development on the Java platform. By bundling a container and a database, we eliminated all barriers, and by supporting hot reloading during development, agile development became a reality. However, even with all this simplicity, as Grails has matured it has become much more than a web framework. It has become a web platform that participates in your entire project life cycle. Grasping all the concepts and conventions and applying them to your projects can be a challenge.

Fortunately, books like Beginning Groovy and Grails can help you get a grasp on the technology and guide you through the steps to make your application a reality. Chris, Joseph, and Jim do an excellent job of guiding you through the basics and then plunging headfirst into advanced topics like security, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax), and deployment.

Usability Evaluation: A Special Issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:41:22 GMT

This article is an extended version of a keynote address presented at the 9th International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction held in New Orleans, August 5 through 10, 2001. The article presents an overview of issues pertaining to the development of a user-friendly information society, and introduces 3 concepts for improving the intuitiveness of human–technology interaction in the future. Dynamic visualizations, multimodal interaction, and cooperative exploration are considered as 3 major approaches to improving human–technology interaction. These concepts and interaction techniques based on them are currently being investigated in a large joint research effort, the project INVITE (Intuitive Human–Technology Interaction in the Information Society). An overview of INVITE’s objectives and achievements is given. Selected application areas are presented in which the concepts and techniques are applied. Finally, the issue of the relation between the physical work environment and creative activities is addressed. A spatial environment with various technical devices is described that offers a range of techniques for stimulating creativity and intuition.

Architecture Design for Soft Errors

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:07:40 GMT

"Dr. Shubu Mukherjee's book is a welcome surprise: books by architecture leaders in major companies are few and far between. Written from the viewpoint of a working engineer, the book describes sources of soft errors and solutions involving device, logic, and architecture design to reduce the effects of soft errors." - Max Baron, Microprocessor Report - May 27, 2008

Award winning author provides a much needed book in an emerging field he has helped design!

This book provides a comprehensive description of the architetural techniques to tackle the soft error problem. It covers the new methodologies for quantitative analysis of soft errors as well as novel, cost-effective architectural techniques to mitigate them. To provide readers with a better grasp of the broader problem deffinition and solution space, this book also delves into the physics of soft errors and reviews current circuit and software mitigation techniques.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Device- and Circuit-Level Modeling, Measurement, and Mitigation
Chapter 3: Architectural Vulnerability Analysis
Chapter 4: Advanced Architectural Vulnerability Analysis
Chapter 5: Error Coding Techniques
Chapter 6: Fault Detection via Redundant Execution
Chapter 7: Hardware Error Recovery
Chapter 8: Software Detection and Recovery

* Provides the methodologies necessary to quantify the effect of radiation-induced soft errors as well as state-of-the-art techniques to protect against them

Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.5

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:50:24 GMT

I started working with the new Microsoft WinFX technology stack early in the beta and Community Technology Preview (CTP) stages. The foundations that began their life as WinFX (Windows Presentation, Windows Communication, and Windows Workflow) became a shipping Microsoft product named .NET Framework 3.0 in November 2006. I actually started to learn and use all three of these foundations at the same time in my day job. Talk about a massive learning curve.

While I was impressed with the flexibility and capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), I was somehow inexplicably drawn to Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). WF isn’t just a new way to implement a user interface or a new way to communicate between applications and services. WF represents a completely new way to develop applications. It is declarative, visual, and infinitely flexible. It promotes a model that cleanly separates what to do from when to do it. This separation allows you to change the workflow model (the when) without affecting the what. Business logic is implemented as a set of discrete, testable components that are assembled into workflows like building blocks.

Workflow isn’t a new concept. But when Microsoft spends years developing a workflow foundation and provides it to us without cost, it is an event worth noting. Other workflow frameworks exist, but WF is the de facto standard workflow framework for Windows applications.

I originally wrote the first edition of this book because I was excited about workflow, and about WF in particular. I was excited about the opportunities that it held for application developers like us. And that excitement continues today, especially with the release of .NET Framework 3.5. With this release, Microsoft has continued to provide additional enhancements to WF. In particular, .NET 3.5 includes support for workflow services. These are Windows Communication Foundation services that are implemented as workflows.

My hope is that this book will help you to use WF to build an exciting new generation of workflow-enabled applications.

Digital Accounting: The Effects of the Internet And Erp on Accounting

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:48:51 GMT

Digital Accounting: The Effects of the Internet and ERP on Accounting provides a foundation in digital accounting by covering fundamental topics such as accounting software, XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), and EDI. The effects of the Internet and ERP on accounting are classified and presented for each accounting cycle, along with a comprehensive discussion of online controls. Digital Accounting: The Effects of the Internet and ERP on Accounting provides a conceptual approach to handling the latest developments at the intersection of the accounting and IT fields.

About the Author

Dr. Ashutosh Deshmukh is an Associate Professor of Accounting & Information Systems at the Pennsylvania State University–Erie. He received his M.B.A from the University of Alabama and Ph.D. from the University of Memphis. His research and teaching interests are in accounting information systems and auditing. He has published over 20 articles and made numerous conference presentations in the areas of accounting information systems and auditing. He is a Chartered Accountant, Certified Information Systems Auditor, and Certified Fraud Examiner; and has practical experience in public and industrial accounting. A bean counter by profession and a byte counter by choice, he has also consulted with numerous organizations. He is a member of American Accounting Association, Institute of Charted Accountants of India, Information Systems Audit and Control Association, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Phi Kappa Phi, and Beta Gamma Sigma. He lives in Erie, PA with his wife and son and enjoys Tae Kwon Do, Chess, and Science Fiction in his spare time.

Optimal Traffic Control: Urban Intersections

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:48:36 GMT

Despite traffic circles, four-way stop signs, lights regulated by timers or sensors, and other methods, the management of urban intersections remains problematic. Consider that transportation systems have all the features of so-called complex systems: the great number of state and control variables, the presence of uncertainty and indeterminism, the complex interactions between subsystems, the necessity to optimize several optimization criteria, and active behavior of the controlled process, to name just a few. Therefore, a mathematical approach to these systems can resolve their complex issues more elegantly than other methods. Addressing both efficiency and traffic safety issues, Optimal Traffic Control: Urban Intersections examines the traffic control optimization problem and presents a novel solution method. Using an approach based on control theory, graph theory, and combinatorial optimization, the authors derive a full mathematical description of the traffic control problem and enumerate all combinatorial aspects. The result is a set of algorithmic solutions to various problems along with computer implementation that you can incorporate into real traffic control systems for immediate results. The book concludes by evaluating how the choice of a complete set of signal groups influences intersection performance. Although modern cities throughout the world have a unique character influenced by culture, geography, and population, most of them share one main feature: busy intersections and the issue of controlling the traffic traveling through them. The development of information technologies, especially computer and telecommunications techniques, has changed the complexity of the problem and influenced the development of new solutions. Clearly stating the issues and presenting a possible solution, this book shows you how to take full advantage of all the capabilities of microprocessor-based traffic signal controllers.

Evaluating Information Systems: Public and Private Sector

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:48:20 GMT

Companies make a huge investment of 4 to 10% of their turnover on IT - this book reveals how this is evaluated and measured.

The adoption of Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) represents significant financial investments, with alternative perspectives to the evaluation domain coming from both the public and private sectors.

As a result of increasing IT/IS budgets and their growing significance within the development of an organizational infrastructure, the evaluation and performance measurement of new technology remains a perennial issue for management. This book offers a refreshing and updated insight into the social fabric and technical dimensions of IT/IS evaluation together with insights into approaches used to measure the impact of information systems on its stakeholders. In doing so, it describes the portfolio of appraisal techniques that support the justification of IT/IS investments.

Evaluating Information Systems explores the concept of evaluation as an evolutionary and dynamic process that takes into account the ability of enterprise technologies to integrate information systems within and between organisations. In particular, when set against a backdrop of organisational learning. It examines the changing portfolio of benefits, costs and risks associated with the adoption and diffusion of technology in today?s global marketplace. Finally approaches to impact assessment through performance management and benchmarking is discussed.

* A unique reference work and examination of the IS evaluation 'life-cycle'
* An holistic treatment of the subject beyond the normal prescriptive 'investment appraisal' approaches that reflects recent developments in the field
* Essential text for students on business information systems courses and an insightful resource for professionals engaged in justifying IT/IS expenditure

About the Author

Director of Postgraduate Studies in the Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, UK. He is a non-executive director of a leading engineering company and consults for global organizations such as Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum, DERA, BMW and Adidas. Director of Research for the Working e-Business (We-B)Centre and Postgraduate Research Degree Coordinator in the School of Management Information Systems at Edith Cowan University, Australia. He also acts as the Asia Pacific Editor for Journal of Enterprise Information Management and Senior Editor for e-Government Quarterly.

Aspect-Oriented Programming with AspectJ

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:48:06 GMT

In a November 2001 Java Pro magazine article, noted Java pundit Daniel Savarese states, "The days of Object-Oriented Programming may be numbered, One day we may all be using Aspect-Oriented Programming ." While this may be hyperbole, the AOP bring certain needed improvements to the OOP. AspectJ is a Java-based tool that allows developers to apply standard Java syntax to AOP principles, much as C++ allowed C programmers to use C syntax in an object-oriented manner. There are AspectJ add-ons available for Borland's JBuilder, Sun's Forte for Java and for the EMACS text editor. Aspect-Oriented Programming with AspectJ introduces AOP and the AspectJ tool. The book also shows how, by using existing Java programming knowledge, the developer can use AOP in meaningful development work.

About the Author

Ivan Kiselev has over 20 years of software engineering and business experience. He is a chief technology officer at APP Design Group, Inc., a software company. Previously, Mr. Kiselev held technology leadership positions with a number of other software, financial, and telecommunication companies.

Mr. Kiselev is a senior-level architect and technologist with extensive experience in analysis, architecture, and development of large-scale, distributed information systems, as well as a recognized expert in object-oriented technology, the Internet, and EDI. Mr. Kiselev takes particular interest in applications of reusable frameworks and application servers to electronic commerce systems and development environments, as well as integrating scripting languages into all of these. Most of his efforts are devoted to architecture of distributed enterprise scale applications for the Web-based environment where he advocates a very pragmatic approach to system development.

Mr. Kiselev served on the ANSI C++ Standardization Committee from 1991Ð1993 and published over 20 articles and white papers in Dr. DobbÕs Journal, Java DeveloperÕs Journal, Software Development Magazine, and other publications. Mr. Kiselev is a member of the Association for Computer Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Pro LINQ Object Relational Mapping in C# 2008

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:16:32 GMT

It is nearly impossible today to write enterprise software without the use of one or more relational databases. Granted, there are cases when the data is transient and not stored in a database, but for the most part, software needs to consume and manipulate data in a database. It sounds easy, but there are hundreds of ways to connect software systems to databases and thousands of people who think they have the skeleton key for data access layers. Pro LINQ Object Relational Mapping in C# 2008 explains an efficient, repeatable way to apply industry design patterns to build scalable object–oriented data access layers.

Object relational mapping (OR/M) has been a gray area in Microsoft development for many years. It’s not that Microsoft language developers don’t understand OR/M; in fact, the opposite is true, as is exemplified by the glut of third–party .NET OR/M tools on the market. The struggle has come more from the lack of native tools with the object–oriented and object persistence capacity to effectively work in this arena. With the inception of .NET, Microsoft overcame the first obstacle by developing an object–oriented environment and framework. The second obstacle, the native object persistence layer, is only now being realized with the introduction of Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and LINQ’s children, the Language Integrated Query for Relational Databases (LINQ to SQL) and the Language Integrated Query for the ADO.NET Entity Framework (LINQ to Entities). The gray area no longer exists, and the .NET developers of the world finally have the native tools required to build modular, reusable data access layers.

What you’ll learn

The powerful advantages that OR/M can bring to your code
The native tools that are now available within Visual Studio 2008 for OR/M
How to build scalable object–oriented data access layers that take advantage of OR/M’s flexibility
How LINQ fits into this picture, together with the advantages and disadvantages that it can bring
How the concepts work in the real world by examining a fully worked and detailed case study, created with an architecture than can be easily applied to a wide range of other situations

Who is this book for?

This book is intended for Microsoft .NET developers who are using or evaluating Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 to build data–aware applications, and it will provide patterns and resources that can be used to build enterprise class software.

About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

Related Titles

Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Framework, Fourth Edition
Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008

About the Author

Vijay P. Mehta has been working as a software engineer and architect for the last 12 years. Starting off in the VC++/ATL, MFC, Win32, and VB6 worlds, Vijay later moved on to Java and .Net development. With his current focus on C# and .Net, Vijay holds a number of Microsoft certifications and has written a number of articles on .Net and Microsoft–focused development. Currently working as an Architect for a financial services software company in Indianapolis, Vijay spends the bulk of his time designing and implementing large, cutting-edge software systems.

Oracle Database Programming Using Java and Web Services

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:46:34 GMT

The traditional division of labor between the database (which only stores and manages SQL and XML data for fast, easy data search and retrieval) and the application server (which runs application or business logic, and presentation logic) is obsolete. Although the books primary focus is on programming the Oracle Database, the concepts and techniques provided apply to most RDBMS that support Java including Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. This is the first book to cover new Java, JDBC, SQLJ, JPublisher and Web Services features in Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (the coverage starts with Oracle 9i Release 2). This book is a must-read for database developers audience (DBAs, database applications developers, data architects), Java developers (JDBC, SQLJ, J2EE, and OR Mapping frameworks), and to the emerging Web Services assemblers.

Key Features:
Describes pragmatic solutions, advanced database applications, as well as provision of a wealth of code samples
Addresses programming models which run within the database as well as programming models which run in middle-tier or client-tier against the database.
Discusses languages for stored procedures: when to use proprietary languages such as PL/SQL and when to use standard languages such as Java; also running non-Java scripting languages in the database
Describes the Java runtime in the Oracle database 10g (i.e., OracleJVM), its architecture, memory management, security management, threading, Java execution, the Native Compiler (i.e., NCOMP), how to make Java known to SQL and PL/SQL, data types mapping, how to call-out to external Web components, EJB components, ERP frameworks, and external databases.
Describes JDBC programming and the new Oracle JDBC 10g features, its advanced connection services (pooling, failover, load-balancing, and the fast database event notification mechanism) for clustered databases (RAC) in Grid environments.
Describes SQLJ programming and the latest Oracle SQLJ 10g features , contrasting it with JDBC
Describes the latest Database Web services features, Web services concepts and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) for DBA, the database as Web services provider and the database as Web services consumer.
Abridged coverage of JPublisher 10g, a versatile complement to JDBC, SQLJ and Database Web Services.

Kuassi Mensah (kuassi360.blogspot.com) is Group Product Manager within the Java and Web services products group, part of Oracles server technologies.. He joined Oracle France in 1989 where he sets up the Center of Expertise specializing in systems architecture, performance as well as massively parallel systems. In 1999, he moved to Oracle headquarters . Mr Mensah holds a MS in Computer Sciences and Post graduate degree from the Programming Institute of University of Paris VI. He lives with his wife and two sons in San Francisco.
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About the Author

Group Product Manager, Java Products Group -- Oracle Corporation (U.S.A.).
The author handles product management for Java, JDBC, and Database Web Services for the Oracle Database; as a result this book offers insider details and tips.

ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook (Developer's Library)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:53:08 GMT

ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook is the first foray into the Microsoft market within the Sams Developer?s Cookbook series. It's a perfect fit for developers that are up-to-speed with ASP.NET, in general, and want a task reference to utilize while developing their Web applications. Each chapter will consist of a brief introduction to the topic at hand, followed by 5 to 25 recipes, task-oriented examples of how to do common and not so common tasks using ASP.NET. The book will use VB.NET exclusively but will include both VB and C# examples on the supporting Web site (in both working and downloadable forms). Each recipe will consist of a brief descriptive name, a longer but brief description of the task, techniques to use, and finally concluded with a comments section where the technique is discussed.

Up-to-speed with ASP.NET? This book gives you a topic and the 5 to 24 "recipes" you need to get the common or not-so-common task done using ASP.NET. ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook will use VB.NET exclusively but will include both VB and C# examples on the supporting Web site (in both working and downloadable forms). Each recipe has what you need a brief descriptive name, followed by a description of the task, followed by the technique itself, and finally a "comments" section where the technique is discussed.

About the Author

Steven A. Smith, Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, is president and owner of ASPAlliance.com, LLC, the #1 ASP.NET developer community, which provides articles, forums, listservs, and sample code for ASP and ASP.NET developers. He is also the owner and head instructor for ASPSmith Ltd, a .NET-focused training company. Steve speaks at several conferences each year and has written articles for MSDN and AspNetPRO magazines in addition to his first book, ASP.NET By Example. Steve has a Master's degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science Engineering. When he isn't working, Steve enjoys swimming, biking, and computer games. Steve lives in Ohio with his wife Michelle and daughter Ilyana.

Rob Howard is a Program Manager on the Microsoft ASP.NET team. He is on the core infrastructure team and is responsible for features such as caching and session state. Rob is also the author of several books, including: ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook, SAMS; ASP.NET Professional 1.0, Wrox Press; and the upcoming Microsoft ASP.NET Coding Strategies with the Microsoft ASP.NET Team, Microsoft Press. Rob is also a frequent presenter at developer conferences such as: Microsoft TechED, Microsoft PDC, and ASP.NET Connections.

How to Program Using C++

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:00:45 GMT

Welcome to a book about learning to program.

Before we go any further, you need to be absolutely clear about what it is that you are holding in your hand. This is possibly a book with the name of a programming language in the title that is unlike any book with the name of a programming language in the title that you have encountered before. And I expect that you have encountered many.

A big claim, that. But this is not a book about C++. This is not a book that seeks to explain all the minute details of the C++ language. This book contains no UML and none of whatever the flavour of the month is at the moment in systems development. This is not a book that an experienced programmer, working in industry, would use as a reference as they worked on some commercial project. There are lots of books like that, and lots of books written for experienced programmers, and this is not one of them.

This book came about like this. I’ve been to a few conferences on teaching computing, and I’ve given a few presentations describing some of my ideas on what’s wrong and right with the way we teach programming. I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s rathermore that’s wrong than right. A publisher ’s rep came up to me at one of these happy events and started to pester me to write my own C++ book. I declined, since there were already far too many C++ books about and I saw no need to add to this needlessly large pile of paper.

The problem that then emerged was that this was a persistent publisher ’s rep. I kept finding that she kept popping up in my office. I will admit to having been bought a beer, but despite advice from other authors, I always seemed to miss the free lunch. Eventually, during ITiCSE 2001 at Canterbury, I cracked and agreed to write something. But only on my terms. I was not going to write another totally unnecessary book about C++.

That is why this is a book about learning to program. Specifically, this is a book that is intended to support a student following an introductory programming course in further or higher education. There is sufficient C++ in this book to be included in such a course; there are also some pointers in the final chapter that would be of interest in the more ambitious courses1. My hope is that after reading this book, and after following your course, a student would be able to write some reasonably complex C++ programs and make sensible use of one of the many other C++ books that are available.

Now let me explain why this book is like this. I have taught programming for many years in what is probably one of the most respected university computing departments in the UK. Every year I have some successes, and every year there are failures. I see students struggle with this topic; they are struggling with something that lies at the very heart of our discipline. I often see students suffer as they attempt to come to terms with programming; often I have seen them drop out of their degree simply to avoid more programming.

Architectures for E-Business Systems: Building the Foundation for Tomorrow's Success

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:58:49 GMT

As dot.com companies grapple with rigid market conditions and we keep hearing how the big technology players are being punished on Wall Street, it becomes easy to think of the Internet as a fad. The Internet frenzy may have subsided, but interest in the Internet as a business and marketing tool is still strong. It will continue to impact organizations and create opportunities. Sooner or later every organization will use the Internet for some facet, large or small, of its business. Architecture for e-Business Systems: Building the Foundation for Tomorrow's Success provides complete coverage of best practices and architecture applications. The book gives hands-on details to the IT manager faced with the daunting task of transitioning 40 years worth of computing detritus supporting a brick-and-mortar operation into an online business - melding the walk-in customer with the surf-in customer. It highlights strategy and planning, e-enabled business solutions, wireless and mobile business solutions, project development approaches, e-enabled architecture and design, toolkits, testing, performance, and security. The Internet will continue to impact individuals and organizations. Companies looking to grow their business through the Internet will find numerous new opportunities. With its focus on strategic and tactical knowledge Architecture for e-Business Systems: Building the Foundation for Tomorrow's Success shows you how to successfully build and deploy Internet applications that stand up to the rigors of today's demanding business environment.

Provides hands-on details to the IT manager faced with the daunting task of transitioning 40 years worth of computing detritus supporting a brick and mortar operation into an online business--melding the walk-in customer with the surf-in customer.

Object-Oriented Design with UML and Java

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:58:38 GMT

Provides a fully road tested integrated introduction to object-oriented design and implementation issues using UML and Java

Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose programming language for specifying and visualizing complex software, especially large, object-oriented projects. Object-oriented programming is when a programmer defines not only the data type of a data structure, but also the types of operations/functions that can be applied to the data structure. Java is a general purpose programming language with a number of features that make the language well suited for use on the World Wide Web. Fully road tested from the authors own courses, Object-Oriented Design with UML and Java shows how considering the modeling and programming languages together from the start can be beneficial, shifting the emphasis away from detailed programming issues, and instead allowing the focus to fall on the analysis of the meaning and accuracy of the model. No prior knowledge of object orientation is assumed, though some knowledge of Java or other high level programming language is required.

* Integrates design and implementation, using Java and UML
* Includes case studies, exercises and a free software tool for hands on learning
* Bridges the gap between programming texts and high level analysis books on design

Mobile Computing Principles: Designing and Developing Mobile Applications with UML and XML

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:58:28 GMT

Written to address technical concerns that mobile developers face regardless of platform, this book explores the differences between mobile and stationary applications and the architectural and software development concepts needed to build mobile applications. Using UML, Reza B'far guides the developer through the development process, from design to implementation. He focuses on general concepts, while using platforms as examples or as possible tools. After introducing UML, XML, and derivative tools necessary for developing mobile software applications, B'far shows how to build user interfaces for mobile applications. He covers location sensitivity, wireless connectivity, mobile agents, data synchronization, security, and push-based technologies, finally homes in on the practical issues of mobile application development including the development cycle for mobile applications, testing mobile applications, architectural concerns, and a case study.

About the Author

Reza B'far is an executive consultant currently serving as the CTO of Voice Genesis and Acting CTO of Semantic Messaging Systems Inc. His company, Cienecs Inc., has had a variety of engagements in the mobile arena with startups as well as Fortune 500 companies. Early in his career, he has worked for Weyerhaueser Company, Parr & Associates Inc., and National Oceanic research department of NASA. He has spent the past ten years working for Noor Electrical Engineering, Virtual Mortgage Network, AdForce Inc., eBuilt Inc., and DataTrace Corporation. He is currently an independent contractor working with a variety of companies Asian architect and/or CTO, including some in the mobile arena.

XML for ASP.NET Developers (Kaleidoscope)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:58:15 GMT

XML for ASP.NET Developers first gives a solid foundation in the basics of MSXML including XML Syntax, XML Schemas, Xpath, Xlink, Xpointer, and other concepts necessary to leverage the power of XML. After the building blocks of XML are thoroughly covered, Dan guides readers through manipulating XML documents using the Document Object Model (DOM) and XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) both on the client and the server. Detailed examples combined with easy to follow tutorials will have readers transforming XML documents into professional looking applications quickly and easily. Providing a single source for information on a variety of XML related technologies makes XML for ASP.NET Developers a necessary edition to any developer's library and sets it apart from any book available today.

About the Author

Dan Wahlin is an independent consultant for Wahlin Consulting and also founded the XML for ASP.NET website (http://www.XMLforASP.NET) which focuses on using XML and Web Services in MicrosoftÕs .NET platform. He also works as a corporate trainer for Global Knowledge. Previously, Dan worked as an enterprise Web site manager, director of Internet/wireless development, and as senior consultant for a global systems integrator. Dan enjoys writing technical articles on XML-related topics for Visual Studio Magazine, ASPToday.com, and is a regular columnist in XML Magazine. Dan co-authored Professional Windows DNA (WROX Press) and ASP.NET Tips and Tricks (Sams).

Adaptive Query Processing (Foundations and Trends(R) in Databases)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:51:50 GMT

Adaptive Query Processing surveys the fundamental issues, techniques, costs, and benefits of adaptive query processing. It begins with a broad overview of the field, identifying the dimensions of adaptive techniques. It then looks at the spectrum of approaches available to adapt query execution at runtime - primarily in a non-streaming context. The emphasis is on simplifying and abstracting the key concepts of each technique, rather than reproducing the full details available in the papers. The authors identify the strengths and limitations of the different techniques, demonstrate when they are most useful, and suggest possible avenues of future research. Adaptive Query Processing serves as a valuable reference for students of databases, providing a thorough survey of the area. Database researchers will benefit from a more complete point of view, including a number of approaches which they may not have focused on within the scope of their own research.

25 Years of Model Checking: History, Achievements, Perspectives (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:50:27 GMT

Model checking technology is among the foremost applications of logic to computer science and computer engineering. The model checking community has achieved many breakthroughs, bridging the gap between theoretical computer science and hardware and software engineering, and it is reaching out to new challenging areas such as system biology and hybrid systems. Model checking is extensively used in the hardware industry and has also been applied to the verification of many types of software. Model checking has been introduced into computer science and electrical engineering curricula at universities worldwide and has become a universal tool for the analysis of systems.

This Festschrift volume, published in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Model Checking, includes a collection of 11 invited papers based on talks at the symposium "25 Years of Model Checking", 25MC, which was part of the 18th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2006), which in turn was part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2006) held in Seattle, WA, USA, in August 2006.

Model checking is currently attracting considerable attention beyond the core technical community, and the ACM Turing Award 2007 was given in recognition of the paradigm-shifting work on this topic initiated a quarter century ago. Here we honor that achievement with the inclusion of facsimile reprints of the visionary papers on model checking by Edmund Clarke and Allen Emerson, and by Jean-Pierre Queille and Joseph Sifakis.

Reactive Systems: Modelling, Specification and Verification

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:44:59 GMT

Formal methods is the term used to describe the specification and verification of software and software systems using mathematical logic. Various methodologies have been developed and incorporated into software tools. An important subclass is distributed systems. There are many books that look at particular methodologies for such systems, e.g. CSP, process algebra. This book offers a more balanced introduction for graduate students that describes the various approaches, their strengths and weaknesses, and when they are best used. Milner's CCS and its operational semantics are introduced, together with notions of behavioural equivalence based on bisimulation techniques and with variants of Hennessy-Milner modal logics. Later in the book, the presented theories are extended to take timing issues into account. The book has arisen from various courses taught in Iceland and Denmark and is designed to give students a broad introduction to the area, with exercises throughout.

This accessible text describes the process algebraic approach to the specification and verification of software and software systems using mathematical logic. Offering a balanced introduction for graduate students, the book describes all the various approaches, their strengths and weaknesses, and when they are best used.

About the Author

Luca Aceto is Professor of Computer Science at Reykjavík University, Iceland and Aalborg University, Denmark.

Anna Ingólfsdóttir is Professor of Computer Science at Reykjavík University, Iceland and Aalborg University, Denmark.

Kim G. Larsen is Professor of Computer Science at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Jiri Srba is Associate Professor in Computer Science at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library (Kaleidoscope)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:43:31 GMT

Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library is the definitive guide every Visual Basic .NET developer needs to understand the capabilities of .NET namespaces and increase productivity inside the .NET framework. Lars Powersand Mike Snell have provided a comprehensive book that details the capabilities of the key namespaces, and then explains how to leverage them by extension or reference to create applications ranging from simple to complex.

Each chapter provides a brief introduction to the selected technology, followed by detailed suggestions, reference material, and a sample application that illustrates common programming tasks using the classes, interfaces, delegates, and events of a specific .NET namespace. This book answers the primary questions that VB .NET developers will face as they start developing code in the .NET environment, including: What does the .NET class library provide me in terms of re-usable code? Are there .NET structures available that I can use to accomplish a specific task? How do I go about interfacing with the .NET framework through my code?

Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library is acomprehensive guide as you learn how to use the .NET Framework classes, then it will become a trusted reference as your experience and needs grow in the world of .NET.

About the Author

Lars Powers

Lars is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) with more than 10 years of experience analyzing business problems and developing software solutions. Most of his experience centers on leading development teams and writing software in Microsoft development environments.

Mike Snell

Mike is also a MCSD with more than 10 years of experience writing and designing software. His experience centers on creating enterprise-level, Web-based systems using the Microsoft platform.

Lars and Mike have been working together at four separate companies for more than six years. In doing so, they've built a wealth of knowledge about executing successful projects and delivering enterprise-level systems. Together, they have formed brilliantStorm (http://www.brilliantstorm.com): a partnership focused on providing developers with .NET productivity tools, information, and training.

Dan Suceava is currently a Senior Programmer for Vitrix, Inc., a time and attendance software company located in Tempe, Arizona. He has been developing desktop and n-tiered applications in Visual Basic since 1996. He has recently completed work on an ASP solution that offers timekeeping over the Web to other businesses. He holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University.

Jawahar (JP) Puvvala is currently working as a senior developer. He has extensive experience with Microsoft and Java technologies, having designed and developed several enterprise systems. He has two Master's Degrees, and currently holds MCSD, MCSE, and MCDBA certifications. JP also has research experience and has published several conference and journal papers.

Conquest in Cyberspace: National Security and Information Warfare

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:41:32 GMT

With billions of computers in existence, cyberspace, 'the virtual world created when they are connected,' is said to be the new medium of power. Computer hackers operating from anywhere can enter cyberspace and take control of other people's computers, stealing their information, corrupting their workings, and shutting them down. Modern societies and militaries, both pervaded by computers, are supposedly at risk. As Conquest in Cyberspace explains, however, information systems and information itself are too easily conflated, and persistent mastery over the former is difficult to achieve.

Computer hackers operating from anywhere can enter cyberspace and take control of other people's computers, steal their information, corrupt their workings, and shut them down. As Conquest in Cyberspace explains, however, information systems and information itself are too easily conflated, and persistent mastery over the former is difficult to achieve.

About the Author

Martin C. Libicki, a Senior Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation since 1998, works on the relationship between information technology and national security. He has written numerous monographs on the subject, notably What is Information Warfare, The Mesh and the Net: Speculations on Armed Conflict in a Time of Free Silicon, and Who Runs What in the Global Information Grid. Dr Libicki is also the editor of the RAND Textbook, New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking. His most recent assignments at RAND have been to develop a post-9/11 information technology strategy for the U.S. Department of Justice and DARPA's Terrorist Information Awareness program, conduct an information security analysis for the FBI, investigate targeting strategies of al Queda, and assess CIA's R&D venture, In-Q-Tel. He previously taught at the National Defense University. Dr Libicki received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978.

Tangled Web: Tales of Digital Crime from the Shadows of Cyberspace (Queconsumerother)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:40:11 GMT

With the intense growth of e-business, we hear about an increase in hacking and technology-based criminal incidents. Institutions such as Citibank and Ebay have faced intrusions that have cost them millions of dollars in damages. With the onset of these criminal attacks, there is an increase in demand for products and services that provide more information for people. Tangled Web: Tales of Digital Crime from the Shadows of Cyberspace portrays the shadow side of cyberspace by taking you into the lairs of hackers, crackers, researchers, private investigators, law enforcement agents and intelligence officers. The book covers what kinds of cyber-crimes are going to affect business on the Internet, their cost, how they are investigated, and the motivation of hackers and virus writers. Also covered are the problems faced by law enforcement, corporate cyber security professionals, and real-world examples of cyber crimes and lessons learned.

About the Author

RICHARD POWER is Editorial Director at the Computer Security Institute (CSI) in San Francisco. He is a valued advisor to Fortune 1,000 corporations and government agencies throughout the world, working with executive management and information security practitioners. Power is widely and extensively quoted in mainstream print and broadcast news media.