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If someone asked you to name the best car on the market, you’d probably tell them the answer depends on who will use the car. After all, a family of eight living in Manhattan probably needs a different type of vehicle from a single hacker living in rural North Dakota. The same is true for programming languages and development toolkits. Each has its place and is appropriate for solving different sorts of problems.

Although this might seem obvious, many programmers believe the language or toolkit they use is so good it should be used to solve all problems, all of the time. As the old saying goes, if your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. No programming language is the best fit for all problems, which is why experienced programmers know and use a variety of languages and constantly are learning new ones.
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Resin is an application server that is in the process of completing J2EE certification. The reason I choose Resin is because of that a popular web hosting company LunarPages uses Resin to support jsp and servlet.

Following are the steps to make Resin work with Apache on Unix and Liuux:
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Tier One
Definition

ISP Tiers
The “tier” terminology has arisen mainly in the Internet Service Provider (ISP) industry press to describe ISP size and connectivity. The lower the tier number, the bigger the ISP.
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Load sql script in MySql
• mysql -u root -p <Database Name> < <sql script>

Enable “ON DELETE CASCADE”

• mysql> show variables like ‘%innodb%’;
  +—————+—————-+
  | Variable_name | Value |
  | have_innodb | DISABLED |
  +—————+—————-+
• edit /etc/my.cnf or /etc/my.ini, under [mysqld] tag, add the following line and restart MySQL:
  innodb_data_file_path=ibdata1:10M:autoextend
• mysql> show variables like ‘%innodb%’;
  +—————+—————-+
  | Variable_name | Value |
  | have_innodb | YES |
  +—————+—————-+
• In the table definiation, add:
  FOREIGN KEY (`Id`) REFERENCES UserEntity (`Id`) ON DELETE CASCADE
• In the table definiation, define TABLE as “TYPE=InnoDB;”

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Make Mine Large
The wash from a large project can drown reputations and careers. Have you got the courage to swim with the big fish?
by William Knight

Posted June 9, 2004

“Dream big, work hard, and good things will happen,” the saying goes, but it seems that for software projects big dreams often turn to nightmares. Despite today’s catchphrase of small dreams more often, sometimes businesses have no choice but to build huge project teams that create a wake like a supertanker in a gully. It’s easy to get washed up in the surf.
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Apply the Session Facade pattern to J2EE-based applications

Summary
In this article, Jason Cai explores the benefits and advantages of using the Session Facade pattern. He discusses when to use the pattern with value objects, and when to use it with XML. He also provides a detailed implementation of the Session Facade pattern integrated with XML. (2,200 words; January 11, 2002)
By Jason Cai
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