J2EE 1.4 and Web Services

The J2EE platform is designed to provide server-side and client-side support for developing Web services and distributed, multi-tier enterprise applications. Web Services can provide unlimited functionalities by connecting with an existing service API or creating your own. If you can efficiently develop and deploy distributed applications and Web services for use on both corporate intranets and over the Internet, you will gain competitive advantage.

Developing With The HTML5 Element

Videos have been a great way to attract viewers to a website long before YouTube launched back in 2005. But it wasn’t until the release of HTML5 that web developers have had a lightweight solution to playing the video. In the past, displaying a video on your site meant your viewer was required to have a Flash or Java-based player installed on their system in order to watch the video. This was one more thing that would weigh down your site, causing pages to load slower, and be one more thing you’d have to trust the viewer to download and install.

An Introduction to HTML5′s Video API Part 2

This is the second part in our introduction to HTML5′s video API. In part 1 of this series, I introduced you to the basic markup we’ll be using to play the video, then I helped set up a simple script with which we were able to make the controls visible, while ensuring that the native controls will still be visible when JavaScript is disabled.