enterprise-development

Merging organization unit and business roles in ASP.NET web application

In real-world enterprise web applications for enterprise businesses, we always need to limit the access to the data by the user's unit and role. Consider that we have an enterprise company with many shopping stores in a country. So the company has headquarter which has view access to all invoices and statistics for all branches. ...

What are the major motivations to use JNDI for datasources?

I fail to understand why someone would use JNDI. Can someone high light the major reasons to use JNDI for datasources? ...

Can Python be good alternative for web app that would otherwise be done in JEE / J2EE?

Hi, Can Python be a good alternative to a web app that would otherwise be developed with JEE / J2EE? If so, which Python web app framework(s) may be a good choice? Please see details about the app below. I've asked a few people individually about this, who have worked for a good amount of time on either or both of JEE and Python web app...

Distributing iPhone apps under Enterprise program

I'm trying to figure out more details on how apps are distributed to users when under the Enterprise developer program. The Enterprise Deployment Guide states: If you develop an application that you want to distribute yourself, it must be digitally signed with a certificate issued by Apple. You must also provide your users with a dis...

Looking for a SQL function to pull data for month selected and previous six months.

I am looking for a SQL function to use in a BOE Report to generate data from the month selected in the prompt and the previous six months. ...

Enterprise Reporting Tool

What are the best enterprise reporting tools like WebFocus and Crystal Reports which can be used from heterogeneous data sources? ...

Storing error numbers and message text centrally

I'm currently re-organising our collection of around 6 windows services which includes bolstering their robustness and error logging. We have a new central service manager where our services can phone home and also raise events which in turn can be farmed out to relevant technical contacts if needs be. What I want to do is centralise e...

General Modular design for a web application

From everyone who've designed a modular enterprise application, I am interested in knowing how do you perceive modularization and what exactly are you parameters? Is layer-based modularization (like controller/web module, service module, domain module) a better approach? Or feature-based modularization better? And Why? In case of fe...

Deployment Scenarios for web application and databases

I am wondering if there is a resource/book that details out scenarios like Session management in webfarms, sql state management in replicated servers etc. I am looking for tips and tricks and gotchas in real world scenario that are not usually discussed in technology books. ...

Account, inventory integration with existing web application.

I have a midsize ERP which is very much domain focused. Now, I need to have typical ERP features like Accounts, inventory, purchase etc etc. I see a lot of applications already available for these. So I am thinking of reusing any of the existing available package and integrate it with my app. So the question is : Can anyone refer me su...

How well do PHP and Oracle fit together in an enterprise setting?

We use Oracle and PHP together with some success. It seems there are a lot of rough edges as compared to, for instance, Java + Oracle. I am familiar with the Underground PHP + Oracle guide and that there is information scattered around the net. While OCI8 seems to work in most cases, there is noticeably a lack of support for PDO. The...

persistence.xml not found on glassfish deployment descriptor (IntelliJ)

I have an EJB and a WEB module in my IntelliJ, created 5 entities that I would hope to load into a database using annotations. I go to project settings, under modules, and select that I want to add JPA facet, I know have a EJB, WEB and JPA facet. I use eclipselink, so I checked that under JPA settings, I then added my persistence.xml f...

Has anyone found OSGi to be useful in corporate applications?

The title says it all; has anyone deployed a corporate application in OSGi and found it useful? I can see the benefits, forced modularity, good dependency definitions etc. But these seem to be mainly build related improvements. Has anyone found it useful to dynamically replace an existing module? We tend to split our application by pro...