Archive for April, 2008
Web Conduct Research (Surveys Collecting Personally-Identifiable Data)
Web survey subjects must be prevented from viewing any survey records other than their own. Survey respondents must be informed of any personal data collected about them without their knowledge. Respondents must be given the option of not providing such information or not completing the survey before personal data are collected. Use [...]
Posted: April 10th, 2008 under General.
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What is a Web Application?
Web application resides on a company’s Web server, and can be accessed over a network, such as the World Wide Web or an Internet. It is a three-layered application, the Web browser, the content generation technology tool such as Java servlets or ASP (Active Server Pages), and the company’s [...]
Posted: April 7th, 2008 under General.
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Web Security Standards
Increasingly, the web has been hosting the collection and analysis of sensitive data. Sometimes, there are news stories wherein web sites are being defaced and important data being stolen or corrupted. These threats cannot go unaddressed and so standards to secure and protect web sites and their data were developed. These standards [...]
Posted: April 4th, 2008 under General.
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Cocoon
Cocoon was started in 1999 by Stefano Mazzocchi to serve as a simple servlet for XSL styling incorporated to XML. Subsequently, it was rewritten to improve performance and scalability and serve more than just a XSL transformation. Basic web application development can be undertaken with Apache Cocoon.
The features provided by Cocoon include:
� Web development [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2008 under Features, Servers.
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