Tech Library

Welcome to ADT's Tech Library. You'll find informative guides and white papers. For details about each resource, click on the links below.

Free Guides from the ADTmag.com Editors

A Guide to Rich Internet Application Development

Rich Internet Application Development is now becoming mainstream, with everything from large corporations to small businesses using RIA technologies in both internal and Web-facing applications. Get the latest on the RIA trends, tools and techniques you need to know about in this 15-page Lunch Break Series PDF. Get it now.
A Guide to AJAX for Enterprise Application Development

Learn more about the techniques, toolkits and other developers’ experiences working with AJAX from widget-level enhancements to rewriting apps using client-side and server-side frameworks. Check it out now.

A Guide to Performance-driven Application Development

Learn how to move from a reactive approach to performance monitoring to a proactive model by reading ADT's Lunch Break Series: "A Guide to Performance-driven Application Development." Look at it today!

A Guide to SOA Foresight for Enterprises

The appeal of service-oriented architectures is obvious but successful enablement of SOA-based apps is not. This guide helps you maximize your visibility and map out a lucid plan of attack to enable SOA-based apps. Look it over now!

A Guide to Test-Driven Development

Find out why testing should be an integral part of your company's development process in this informative guide about test-driven development now. Download this informative resource now.

A Guide to IT Security Challenges

Take a look at "A Guide to IT Security Challenges" and see what's on the security horizon in terms of securing information and systems. Find out more now.

A Guide to Database Management

While open source and SOA are both hot technology movements and could pair nicely, many enterprises have concerns that are inhibiting the open source/SOA movement. Find out about their concerns. Get this guide now.

Staking a Claim with BRM

Government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley are fueling the business rules engine landscape. Learn how business rules engines can help your company navigate complex regulations while saving money. Find out more now.

A Guide to Software Quality Assurance

Developing and executing an effective QA strategy is complicated. Read this guide and gain valuable insights into successful quality assurance. Don't miss this informative guide.

A Guide to Improved IT Communication through Collaboration

Collaboration tools and business intelligence are crucial in these days of globally dispersed development teams. Learn how your company can increase software quality by building teamwork and overcome the challenges of distributed teamwork. Read this guide.
A Guide to Data Security Management

Security vulnerabilities are costing enterprises a bundle. Find out how to minimize risk to your company by getting "A Guide to Data Security Management." Download this resource now.

A Guide to Software Configuration Management

Choosing the best product for a company implementing advanced SCM tools can be challenging. Find out the keys to making the most of SCM in this guide. Download this guide today..

A Guide to Software Configuration Management

Learn more about the configuration management tools, design tools and project management tools which support iterative approches to SCM. Read this guide now.

A Guide to Implementing SOA

This ADT Lunch Break Series guide covers ways to extend legacy applications, the challenge of managing access to applications exposed as services, and the evolving standards for Web services. Find out more today.

A Guide to Automated Testing

"A Guide to Automated Testing" explores the latest alternatives to traditional testing and explores the importance of a formal QA process and the common failure to include testing in requirements management. Read more now!

A Guide to Performance Management

Like any new information technology, challenges abound with BPM. The keys to success are explained this guide. Download it now.

A Guide to Business Rules

This guide explores business rules management, featuring comments from IT pros who find the approach fraught with peril, as well as a success story. Learn more.

A Guide to Regulatory Compliance

Find out how new regulations impact businesses scrambling to comply, the advantages of taking compliance measures and the importance of content management. Get this info now.

A Guide to Enterprise Application Development

Get a list of best practices for building service-oriented architectures, expert analyses of model-driven architecture and more in this guide. Download it now.

A Guide to J2EE

"A Guide to J2EE" highlights new products for Java developers and IT departments supporting enterprise Java applications. Check it out!

A Guide to Business Intelligence

This LBS features an overview of business intelligence as well as in-depth coverage of related issues. Get the details now.

A Guide to SOA

This LBS guide covers developments in SOA, Web services, and location-based services, as well as recommendations from a developer. Read what's happening now.

A Guide to Requirements Management

Get a treasure trove of information, tips and ideas from requirements management experts in this guide. Learn more!

A Guide to Agile Build & Release Processes

This LBS features tips on applying process effectively and getting the value out of an automated build system. Get the latest in agile modeling!

A Guide to Business Rules Management

This guide explores the trend toward standardizing and automating business processes. Find out more about this hot topic.

A Guide to Application Quality & Performance

This LBS guide focuses on ways to address security, from planning during software deployment to implementing products that thwart technology-based attacks. Get this guide!

A Guide to Risk Analysis and Testing in the Application Lifecycle

This guide takes a careful look at critical risk factors and important planning and testing issues that need to be analyzed to ensure successful software projects. Get it now.

A Guide to Enterprise-scale Java Applications

Read this paper for guidance on making the right choices for deploying a "successful" enterprise Java application. Get this guide now.

A Guide to Developing & Managing Large-scale Java Applications

To learn about the processes and practices that have become critical in deploying successful Java applications, read this guide. Get it now!

A Guide to Database Management and Performance

This guide explores the issue surrounding database management and performance and how best to leverage these solutions to ensure effective data availability for real-time decision making. Don't miss this guide.

A Guide to Implementing Data Modeling Solutions

Modeling enterprise systems is no easy task. This guide delivers practical insights to the modeling challenge and identifies the intricacies in building models. Read on.

A Guide to SOA and Web Services in the Enterprise

In this guide we take a closer look at Web services and implementing SOAs for new solutions to IT development manager challenges. Download the guide now.

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AccuRev

SCM Best Practices for Continuous Integration

Continuous integration is rapidly being adopted as a key process in software development as part of the shift towards Agile methodologies to improve software quality, reduce costly rework due to broken builds, and increase business value delivered to customers. Download and learn key SCM best practices for deploying continuous integration. Get it now.
Vitria

From Interruption to Resolution: Reducing Risk with Exception Management

Every company relies on well-designed, properly executed business processes for success, but what happens when those processes fail? What is the cost? How do you manage that risk? Learn a better approach to get the upper hand with this complex problem. Download now.
InnerWorkings

Many .NET teams are underperforming…is yours?

Application development is still a “dark art” and software projects continue to fail as often as they succeed. Why? This case study explores how First Data Corp invested in the success of their software teams by adopting a hands-on approach to .NET developer training. Read on.
Borland

Taming Software Quality Complexity with Virtual Lab Automation

This paper explores new ways of integrating virtual environments seamlessly into the software testing process and exemplifies how modern test management technologies align to enable a quantum leap in a test teams’ ability to test more efficiently, across a wider range of environments, with greater coverage – ultimately improving IT product quality across multiple configuration and platforms. Get it now!
Coverity

Boolean Satisfiability: The Next Generation of Static Analysis

This white paper provides a brief overview of the history of static analysis and explains how the use of Boolean Satisfiability in static analysis is enabling developers to improve the quality and security of their code by identifying a greater number of critical defects in their code with the lowest rate of false-positive results in the industry. Read on.
Coverity

Controlling Software Complexity

This paper describes how development teams can gain control over the complexity of today’s applications by detecting and eliminating critical defects in their source code. Get it now.
AVIcode

Top Considerations for Ensuring .NET Application Manageability

Microsoft’s .NET Framework provides a compelling platform for building robust distributed applications. This paper highlights key strategies applications, architects, developers and IT teams need to consider to ensure successful development and deployment. Learn more now.
Embarcadero

Embarcadero ER/Studio Enterprise

Embarcadero® ER/Studio®, an industry-leading data modeling tool, helps companies discover, document and re-use data assets. With round-trip database support, data architects have the power to easily reverse-engineer, analyze and optimize databases. Get a trial now.
Embarcadero

Embarcadero DBArtisan

Embarcadero® DBArtisan®, the leading cross-platform database administration tool, helps DBAs maximize availability, performance and security. DBArtisan boosts productivity so DBAs can manage larger, more complex databases. Download a free trial today!
Embarcadero

Embarcadero Rapid SQL

Embarcadero® Rapid SQL®, a leading cross-platform SQL IDE, helps database developers produce high-quality SQL code faster by simplifying SQL scripting, query building, object management, project management and version control. Download a free trial.
Data Direct

Improve .NET Application Performance and Reliability

This paper focuses on ADO.NET and how you can best implement it in your environment, what things there are to consider as you select your data connectivity middleware, and how your choices impact the development, deployment, and production-use of your application. Read it.
IBM

SOA Governance with IBM Rational Asset Manager Software

This paper discusses how IBM Rational Asset Manager software can help address the challenges of SOA Governance at development time.Learn more.

IBM

Mitigating Software Configuration and Software Build Risks

This white paper describes two methods for mitigating the software configuration and software build risks currently exhibited at many clients by not having configuration control of software build machines.Read it now.
Actuate

At the Crossroads: Adding Reporting to Applications

This white paper outlines the reporting technologies available for OEMs and describes which reporting development path makes the most sense given the customer’s specific integration and deployment environment. Get the details.
IBM

Build Web services with transport-level security using Rational Application Developer V7

Build secure Web services with transport-level security using IBM® Rational® Application Developer V7 and IBM WebSphere® Application Server V6.1. Follow the step-by-step instructions in this three-part series. Get the instructions today!
Rally

Mastering the Iteration: An Agile White Paper from Rally

The heartbeat of Agile software development is the iteration. Mastering this skill takes guidance and practice. In this paper, Dean Leffingwell describes the iteration pattern and the activities that a team engages in to meet this key challenge. Learn more!
Curl

RIA Development Strategy Kit

The updated RIA Development Strategy Kit includes three white papers that will help you choose the best RIA development strategy for your company, including a newly released Forrester RIA Best Practices Report “Integrate RIAs Into User Experiences” valued at $379. Get the kit now.
Data Direct

Data Access Middleware Security Simplifies Business Process Applications

Do you have a need to provide pervasive security across your organization? DataDirect Connect provides a solution that decreases development and operations cost, while allowing for great versatility. Read how to exponentially increase the security of your applications. Get this paper!
Timpani Software

BuildBeat Software Trial

The professional choice for continuous integration and automated software build management. Owing to its .NET architecture, BuildBeat is the perfect choice for Microsoft development shops to maintain and manage their software build processes. Try it now!
Actuate

5 Biggest Blunders when Building Spreadsheet Applications in Java

Developers are often asked to incorporate spreadsheets into Java applications. Some common pitfalls await the developer in this endeavor. Read this paper to learn the 5 biggest blunders when building spreadsheet applications in Java – and how to avoid them.
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Coverity

Ensuring Code Quality in Multi-threaded Applications

This paper explains how development teams can avoid catastrophic failures in multi-threaded applications by understanding how to identify and eliminate these deadly problems early in the application development lifecycle. Get this paper now!
Actuate

Tapping into Spreadsheet Logic from Java: Four Server-based Approaches

Java applications often need to tap into logic in a spreadsheet. Developers are challenged to do this in a way that fits into the Java architecture. Learn four approaches for automating Excel logic, along with advantages and disadvantages of each. Get the approaches now.
Actuate

Automating Excel Reports: Five Approaches for Java Developers

Java developers are often asked to automate the delivery of Excel-based reports. This paper outlines five approaches Java developers can use, the advantages and disadvantages of each, and where each can be best applied. Find out more!
Mainsoft

Federating SharePoint Sites within WebSphere Portal

Integrate SharePoint® with .NET and Java™ and applications an open, scalable, and SOA-ready IBM WebSphere® Portal environment. Composite applications, single sign-on, and authentication schemes across .NET and Java are examined in detail.Read it!
Sybase

SQL Anywhere 10 Developer Edition: Enterprise database power anywhere!

SQL Anywhere provides data management and data exchange technologies that enable the rapid development and deployment of database-powered applications. SQL Anywhere is offered at no cost for development and testing. Register now!