VIAs New JAVA Cryptography Service Provider (VIA JCP) Implementation
With the release of the VIA JAVA Cryptography Service Provider (VIA JCP), JAVA applications can now take full advantage of the cryptographic hardware integrated into all recent x86 VIA microprocessors known as the VIA PadLock Security Engine. This initial release of the VIA JCP exposes the full functionality of the VIA PadLock Security Engine feature set that includes hardware random number generators (RNG) and an AES encryption engine.1 Moreover, because of the design of JAVA’s cryptography architecture, the benefits of the hardware based security integrated into VIA processors are available to any piece of JAVA software, whether or not it was developed with the VIA hardware in mind.
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ASP.NET 2.0 Just Do It!
Most books (especially about .NET, it seems) give you lots of concepts and theories and detailed, boring analysis before they ever let you jump in and play with the stuff. Don’t expect that here, though; I turn the traditional philosophy of chapter-order sequence on its head. In this book, I start by getting your server and development environment configured and set up so that you can create your first ASP.NET page in this chapter. There’s no teacher like experience!
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What Perl Programmers Should Know About Java
What should Perl programmers know about Java? It depends. Not knowing Java will not slow you down as a Perl programmer. However, Java is a popular and rapidly growing language, so there’s a good chance that you will find yourself using Java systems or writing applications that need to interact with them. In some situations, writing a Java application may be a good way to accomplish something that you cannot easily do in Perl.
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Programming .NET Windows Applications Drawing and GDI+
The designers of .NET, and especially of Visual Studio .NET, clearly had in mind a model in which you could write sophisticated Windows Applications using only the controls available in the Toolbox. This approach is very successful, and many Windows programmers will never need to go beyond the Toolbox and forms model for building powerful user interfaces. As discussed elsewhere in this book, the Toolbox includes controls for displaying data (labels, DataGrids, Calendars, listboxes, etc.) as well as for offering the user choices (radio buttons, checkboxes, listboxes, etc.) and for gathering data (text boxes, etc.) In addition, several controls and components manage date and time (Timer, etc.) or the form itself (splitter, etc.).
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.NET Tutorial for Beginners
Welcome friends to the exciting journey of Microsoft .NET. If you are looking for information about what .NET is all about, what it can do for you or how it can help you and your customers, you have come to the right place. This section is intended to tell you about these and many more things. After covering this section you will be ready to delve into details of .NET.
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