Today, the ‘virtual’ world plays a major role in the functioning of our real world. Many routine tasks earlier performed through tedious paperwork, are now done in a matter of seconds through the World Wide Web. The WWW is also contains a wealth of information. With information being accessible at a click of a button, [...]
So finally its here… my graduation ceremony in a couple of months! I dreamt about it only yesterday…. or so it seemed! It was actually 4 years ago during my initial days in the university (when we had time to day-dream that is)… I had even visualized myself throwing the hat way up into the [...]
Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) is used specifically with the KVM
for 16-bit or 32-bit devices with limited amounts of memory. This is the configuration
(and the virtual machine) used for developing small J2ME applications. Its size
limitations make CLDC more interesting and challenging (from a development point of
view) than CDC. CLDC is also the configuration that we [...]
The JMF Functional components are divided into three groups:
Input:
Input describes some sort of media that is used as an input to the rest of the process.
Process:
A process performs some sort of action on the input. A process has a distinct input and output. A large number of processes are available, and can be applied to [...]
Definition of a Mobile Agent
Mobile agents are autonomous software entities that can halt themselves, ship themselves to another agent-enabled host on the network, and continue execution, deciding where to go and what to do along the way.
PROPERTIES OF MOBILE AGENTS:
1) Reactive
2) Autonomous Goal driven
3) Temporally continuous
4) Communicative
5) Mobile Learning
FEATURES OF MOBILE AGENTS:
• Overcome network latency
• [...]
If you are a web developer, and you know some JavaScript, it’s time to start using MooTools! What is Mootools? Mootools is a Javascript framework. It can be seen as a new way to write javascript. It actually stands for “My Object Oriented Tools”! They have given full Object Orientedness to javascript.
The most fun part [...]
Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the java servlet and java server pages technologies. The Java Servlet and Java Server Pages specifications are developed by Sun under the java community process.
Apache Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and released under the Apache software [...]
Between 20 to 30 per cent of lunar rock consists of metals and represents a rich source of useful materials for the building constructionsin space such as orbit stations. Hauling the necessary into space from the earth’s surface is extremely expensive and plans have hurled out to make use of the moon’s resources and smaller [...]
A flight recorder is a tough piece of machinery that is mounted inside a plane in order to record vital information of the flight as it happens. These were first put into planes in the 1960s. They continually record vital details of the flight such as speed and height. A tape of the crew’s conversations [...]
Kerberos is a network authentication protocol. It is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography. A free implementation of this protocol is available from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kerberos is available in many commercial products as well.
The Internet is an insecure place. Many of the protocols used in the [...]
