XML parser is a software module to read documents and a means to provide access to their content. XML parser generates a structured tree to return the results to the browser. An XML parser is similar to a processor that determines the structure and properties of the data. An XML parser can read a XML document to create an output to generate a display form. There are a number of parsers available and a few of them are listed below:

The Xerces Java Parser

The main applications of the Xerces Java parser is the building up of the XML-savvy web servers
and to ensure the integrity of e-business data expressed in XML.

expat XML parser

The expat XML parser is written in C and runs on UNIX or W32.The expat XML parser is not a validating processor that is you can use it only to write an XML parser. This parser is contributed by James Clark.

XP and XT

XP is a Java based, XML validating parser and XT is an XSL processor. Both are written in Java.XP detects all non well formed documents. It gives high performance and aims to be the fastest conformant XML parser in Java. On the other hand XT is a set of tools for building program transformation systems. The tools include pretty printing; bundling of systems, tree transformation etc,

SAX

Simple API for XML (SAX) was developed by the members of a public mailing list (XML-DEV).It gives an event based approach to XML parsing. It means that instead of going from node to node, it goes from event to event. SAX is an event driven interface. Events include XML tag, detecting errors etc,

XML pull parser

It is optimal for applications that require fast and a small XML parser. It should be used when all the process has to be performed quickly and efficiently to input elements.

XML parser for Java

It runs on any platform where there is Java virtual machine. It is sometimes called XML4J.It has an interface which allows you to take a string of XML formatted text, pick the XML tags and use them to extract the tagged information.

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Are you like many older men? Noticing your region around the middle is inflating or hitting a bee line due south. Is there too much stomach for too little trousers waist? Are you realizing that the wasted, horizontal TV time, eating potato chips and boozing has finally caught up with you, and you are featuring love handles? Would you like to get a six pack(get-a-sixpack.net)? Don’t worry too much. There are others in this spare tire crisis and things are promising for you.

If you have too much fat around your belly you need to start some ab workouts (http://ab-workouts.net). Whether you are a man or a woman, you can benefit from a stronger back. When you fortify one you beef up the other. Sit ups as well as crunches are simple procedures to improve the stomach muscles.

Targeting the lower back simply try lying on your stomach. Do the leg swim motion by gently kicking with knees and feet off the flooring. Do this for 15 seconds and rest for 30 and repeat.

It is likely a good idea to scale down the sodium in your diet. It is accepted to link sodium and sodium rich foods with heart problems and risk of stroke. Salt can produce water retention which can in turn add to the tummy fat. Stay away from processed foods and adding extra salt. A fat stomach can also be cut by drinking water. Water helps in breaking down stored fat, creating energy and also hydrating the body.

You may weigh scaling down your alcohol drinking as well. Yes, I know, we are both disappointed that alcoholic beverages are not a water replacement. Alcohol contains a lot of empty calories which have a tendency to get deposited around the stomach area resulting in love handles. No need to eliminate alcohol altogether, just keep a tally of the quantity you consume and adjust as needed; same method as reducing the sum of what you eat.

You may now have this 10,000 year Old “SECRET” that had been kept away from the general public by the “Power Elite” until now…

Know the truth and set yourself free forever. Suffer no more. Rise and shine. It is your birthright…

You may be worshipping the wrong “God” without knowing it because you were born into a family who belonged to a certain religion, and naturally, you now belong to the same religion and have never questioned their scriptural teachings.

You never questioned their teaching because you’ve been programmed to believe that to do so would be to go against “God” (a supernatural being that supposedly created the universe!) and wrong, a sin for which you would be punished. It is fear that has stopped you from doing so.

So, you have swallowed all their teachings on face value, even though, under normal circumstances, you would not do so.

To show any intelligence by questioning or arguing against their belief could lead to being condemned, alienated and ostracized by your family, friends, and community. We understand. You’re not to be blamed.

There are many organized religions today in the world; the largest being Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, paganism and animism. Billions of humans belong to and profess faith to them.

Almost all these religions teach belief in a supernatural being, called “God” and have scriptures, articles of faith, and rituals that its members must practice.

Most also have a central location (for example church, temple, mosque, synagogue) where its members assemble to worship their “God” and engage in rituals.

A person who believes in a God is considered religious.

A person who denies the existence of a God is an atheist.

A person who believes God is unknowable is an agnostic.

It may be true that most human beings are living in modern times of high technology, computers, the internet, cell phones, TV and space travel, but their minds are still primitive and undeveloped.

They have no skill in critical analysis and concrete rationality because organized religions have programmed them to always “believe in things” and never to “think or question or analyze things”, and to attribute all that happens in their daily lives to the designs of a God (if it is good) or a devil (if it is bad).

Their mentality and rationality have not matured. Their bodies are present here in the 21st century, but their minds are still stuck 100,000 years in the past. (Thanks to sleek mental programming by organized religions.)

All the worlds’ organized religions have certain things in common:
In order to convert a lot of people, and also to dominate their congregations, they have wittingly and unwittingly employed a formidable strategy.

They have developed their scriptures by combining spirituality with moral systems, rituals, hypnotism, human psychology, psychism, astrology, theology, pre-history, fear, paranoia and fatalism.

That is why they have so much power and influence over billions of people.

One religion in particular, Christianity, was able to spread like wild fire because wherever they went in the undeveloped world, they bribed the people by building roads, schools and hospital for them.

By so doing, it was easy for them to disarm their rationality and convert them.

As for Islam (the so called religion of “peace”), instead of bribing its converts with modern amenities, it used murder.

They spread because, if you refused to believe in their teaching, they would cut off your head! And their converts were smart. They converted to save their heads!

Spirituality: This is the science of being aware that leads to the realization of your inner, unseen, nature and your relationship to nature on the outside. This is not the same as religion, even though most people mistake the two as the same.

Moral system: This is a social teaching that establishes what is right or wrong in a given society, for the benefit of the inhabitants, in order to maintain law and order and the survival of the society. It has nothing to do with spirituality.

So, one may not be moral, and yet he/she can become spiritual because spirituality transcends morality (right and wrong).

Actually, the ultimate meaning of a true spiritual being is one who has gone beyond right and wrong (morality), body and mind, and the world (materiality). It is the “Beyond”.

This is the reason why human beings have consistently misunderstood spirituality and the spiritual teachings of enlightened beings, and have always abused spiritual teachings.

Hypnotism: This is the art of using repetition to program somebody’s mind to displace his/her rationality and compel him/her to do things against his/her wishes. This is what organized religions do.

They make you go to the church, mosque, temple and synagogue where they preach to you and repeat their sermons endlessly. By so doing, they hypnotize you and make you unable to use your rational mind.

Actually, their hypnotism is also direct, because they tell you directly that you must believe their scripture (have faith) and you can’t doubt it because it is the “word” of their “God”.

So, their hypnotism and mental programming are both direct (must have faith, no questioning or thinking) and indirect (rituals, preaching and worshiping).

We’re behaving in a mad way. The world is mad. Most Christian nations of the world in Europe, America and Russia have atomic and nuclear bombs that they target at one another.

Any day, a mistake can cause them to be set off and the world will be engulfed in a nuclear conflagration. Such mistakes, of a near nuclear attack based on a false alarm, have actually happened a few times before.

If a future nuclear war is not set off due to human error or a computer glitch, then it will be set off by all the mad and evil people running around in the world.

With the world wallowing and over flowing with so many weapons, wars, quarrels among nations, racism, ethnicism, hate, evil, scams, crimes, moral depravity, prostitution, drug abuse, domestic problems, economic woes and poverty, where in the world is organized religions working and producing good citizens?

Islam says that it is a “religion of peace” and yet Islamic fundamentalists roam the world throwing bombs and murdering innocent citizens that have not caused them any trouble.

In the Middle East, Palestinians are sending their 14 year olds as suicide bombers to murder Jews. This is a despicable atrocity.

Using 14 year old innocent children as suicide bombers should be considered a crime against humanity. What has UN done about this? Why is there no international condemnation and outrage against this atrocity?

Israel claims that Palestinian lands belong to them because their “God”, Jehovah, gave it to their patriarch, “Abraham”, thousands of years ago.

But “Abraham” is not a historical personality. Does anyone has any verifiable proof that Abraham was a historical figure?

And their “God”, also known as “El” (from where the name “Isra-EL” is derived) or “Jehovah”, was an ancient astronaut from out of space whose race colonized earth about 500,000 years ago. He was also known by other names: “Nanna” or “Poisedon”.

“El” was also known as “Enlil” and he was the father of Jehovah, who was also known as “Nanna” or Poisedon.

They are not “God” the creator of the universe. They were ancient astronauts!

SHOCKING detailed information about this “God” has been exposed in an important and powerful report: “Introduction To TMT Science And Technology”, and you may download it FREE at the website listed in the author’s resource box at the end of this article.

And where is Jehovah anyway? Why is he so silent for decades while his children murder each other for the sake of a piece of empty desert land?

If he gave Palestinian lands to the Jews, why doesn’t he come down from wherever he lives and proclaim that to us today? Is he not omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent anymore?

And if his children have been worshipping him for thousands of years and his representatives (the rabbis, scribes, priests, bishops and popes who claim to know him and have direct access to him) have been calling on him, why is he so silent then? Is he deaf?

Iran and North Korea continue with efforts to develop nuclear warheads.

Some of them have bought nuclear weapons from Pakistan and Russia.

Nobody knows if North Korea is bluffing or not, but they have been making threats to America.

India and Pakistan have nuclear warheads aimed at each other, waiting for any provocation to push the button.

Also, India and Pakistan used to be one country, and are the cradle of the greatest civilizations and religions in the world: Hinduism and Buddhism.

Instead of spending money to develop India and Pakistan, their governments squander it by stockpiling nuclear weapons that can decimate their countries, while hundreds of millions of their people have no modern amenities, jobs, electricity, running water, good roads, clothes, education or food.

Can you see the madness of politicians?

The world is fast rushing towards a nuclear annihilation. It may be triggered by error or conscious action of evil people.

And unless it happens, we humans will not wake up and our madness will not stop.

One day, will Americans wake up in the morning only to have nuclear weapons raining down on them? By then it is too late….

So, where is the religious teaching and how is it working anywhere with so many disputes, quarrels and wars: Arabs vs. Jews; Chinese vs. Japanese; China vs. Taiwan; Blacks vs. Whites; Communism vs. Democracy; Christianity vs. Islam and Judaism vs. Christianity.

The world is mad. We need to clean it up and start all over. If we don’t, we’ll all end up in a nuclear war that will wipe out billions of people and make our planet uninhabitable for thousands of years.

It has happened before and it may happen again. Unless we all wake up and come back to our senses.

During the next 10 yrs, there may be a lot of natural disasters hitting our planet and millions of people may perish. Many major economies may collapse. Diseases will be widespread.

It may have already begun, with the tsunami that just hit Southeast Asia recently, which have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.

Please feel free to print this article, publish it anywhere or e-mail it to your friends and colleagues.

Have a happy new year and live long and prosper.

Warmly,

I-key Benney

I-key, an “Enlightened” man & Millionaire CEO from New York City is the creator of “Mscsrrr: Millionaire Cash System”, (home based income program ) which has helped thousands of ordinary people from all over the world to attain financial security and success during the past 2 years.

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Reverse osmosis is something that sounds as if it is right out of the science books in a local high school. While many of the less scientific people of this world never stop to think about the process of reverse osmosis, it is a very real entity of our daily lives through the process of water filtering.

When two volumes of liquid (in this case, water) or other solvents part ways by a membrane called a semi-permeable membrane, the liquid will naturally flow from the side of the low solute concentration to the side of the higher one. The way the flow is stopped with guaranteed success is when the side of the higher solute concentration is experiencing some level of exterior pressure. The external pressure then cause something that is then considered to be going through the process of reverse osmosis.

Osmotic pressure is something that occurs only when one side of the system containing the solute molecules experiences the external pressure. This action causes the process of osmotic pressure.

Considered by scientists and other people who have an interest in osmosis is another factor. Osmosis is a process which is called by many the reversible thermodynamic process. This process is really pretty simple and the explanation in layman terms is as follows. The process, reverse osmosis can be stopped or changed at any time whatsoever just by proper control of the right external introduction. By applying pressure to the right point, the direction of the flow of water or another liquid is then reversed rather than continuing through the flow of the membrane.

Reverse osmosis is often used in water filtering and purification systems in order to purify the water and keep the water clean and free of toxins which most people would not want to experience in their drinking water. The process of reverse osmosis is completely opposite from the diffusion process.

Often diffusion and reverse osmosis are, in fact, confused. However, the diffusion concept is irreversible and the process of reverse osmosis is as the name suggests, reversible.

Reverse osmosis can be studied at length using the online libraries available. Keyword searches bring more individual product information for filtering systems than for explanation of the reverse osmosis process itself. Find out what you need to know for whatever purpose through the extensive research available in the many libraries online. Reverse osmosis is worth researching further if you have the time and the interest to do it.

The Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV includes practically every channel offered in the United States for a great price. You get all the sports channels, movie channels, news channels, shopping channels and tons of specialty and informational programming like “The Learning Channel” and “The Food Network.” You even get your local channels so you can see local news and local programming. Not only do you get great television shows and movies, you also get the full spectrum of music – more of a variety then you get on your conventional radio. The best thing is that it is affordable and easy to have set up in your home.

One of the best things about the Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV is all the movie channels you get. With all these channels, you will never have to rent another movie again. The package includes 8 HBO channels, 11 Starz channels, and 6 Showtime channels, FLIX, two Disney Channels and three channels showing Cinemax. Some of these channels feature specific types of movies. For example, one of the Starz channels exclusively shows movies based on real events, while another only broadcasts love stories. Similarly, there are two HBO channels dedicated to programming that can be enjoyed by the entire family. If your taste in movies is a little more eclectic, the Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV also features The Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Many other channels that are part of the Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV also broadcast movies. For example, WE: Women’s Entertainment and the Sci-FI Channel. If you are into older, classic movies, check out Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and American Movie Classics, both of which are part of the Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV.

Another great reason to choose the Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV is all of the sports events, news and commentary. You not only get the four ESPN channels (ESPN, ESPN Classic, ESPN2, and ESPN News), you also get all the FSN networks. If you have had to move away from your favorite team or if you are just having a hard time finding the games that feature your favorite teams, then the FSN channels are what you are looking for. You get 17 FSN channels to help you keep up with your favorite teams from all over the country. You also get the Empire Sports Network, 3 Comcast SportsNet Channels, New England Sports Net, Madison Square Gardens Channel, the Yes Network, the Sunshine Network, Altitude Sports and Entertainment, the Golf Channel and the Outdoor Life Network to help you keep up with all those outdoor sports you love.

Perhaps you like your television to be more educational. If that is the case, then the Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV is definitely right for you. Not only do you get The Learning Channel, you also get channels like the Biography Channel, the History Channel, The Science Channel, and the National Geographic Channel. With the Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV, you even get the NASA Channel. Perhaps you want to learn a new skill or brush up on some technique you learned long ago. You can check out the Do-It Yourself Network for programming that covers, you guessed it, do-it yourself activities. You can learn the recipes for delicious new dishes on The Food Network, and programming featuring Home and Garden Television can give you helpful redecorating and improvement ideas no matter what kind of space you have. You also get 5 Discovery Channels, including one specially devoted to programming for children.

Speaking of programming for children, the Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV has lots of channels especially for children. The movie and learning channels aimed at children have already been listed, but Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV also includes Nicktoons, PBS Kids, the Cartoon Network, Noggin, Nickelodeon, and Boomerang. Other channels offered by Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV often show programming with the family in mind. These channels include the Hallmark Channel, Lifetime, and PAX.

The Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV also features all of the news channels from around the country. Not only do you get CNN and Fox News, you also get Bloomberg TV, CNBC, Newsworld International, the Weather Channel, MSNBC, Headline News, and C-Span. If you are more interested in the latest celebrity news than in political news, the Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV also features E! Entertainment Television as well as A&E, 2 VHI channels, Fuse, 2 MTV channels, and Country Music Television. If you are looking for a different spin on the news, you can check out BBC America and Link TV, both of which are offered as part of the Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV.

Last but certainly not least, there is a whole world of music broadcast over the satellite dish available to you when you buy the Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV. There are 36 stations, each devoted to a different genre of music. These stations include everything from 70’s music to Reggae to solid gold oldies and on to arena rock to show tunes as well as recent hits. There is even a channel devoted solely to Christmas music. For the kids, Radio Disney is also a part of the package. The music stations offered by DIRECTV as part of your channel package offer a much greater variety of music than what can be found on most local stations, even if you live in a large metropolitan area with lots of radio stations. Furthermore, the signal is digital, so the music will sound crisp and clear, just like the artist intended it to sound.

Total Choice Premier Channel Package from DIRECTV has everything you could possibly want in a channel package, and is also possibly one of the most complete channel packages in the country. Movies, sports, and news – anything you want to watch is available on these channels.

David Johnson is an editor and consultant for several Satellite TV websites. Visit this Direct TV Satellite website for more information on Satellite TV Service and equipment.

In this short article – taken from “New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way”, Susun Weed mentions 4 things menopausal women may not have considered on their journey.

• Don’t take calcium supplements. Calcium makes bones more massive, but more brittle. A stout dry branch breaks easily, while a green one, no matter how thin, won’t break at all. Food sources of bone-building minerals (such as yogurt, nettle infusion, dandelion vinegar, and cooked kale) include “flexibility” minerals such as magnesium, boron, and zinc and are a superior way to prevent bone breaks later in life says Weed.
  
  
  
• Gain some weight. Women who gain 10-15 pounds during their menopausal years have fewer hot flashes, stronger bones, and healthier hearts. (And most of them lose the extra weight in the following decade.)
  
  
  
• Try herbal hormones. Many common herbs and foods contain substances that can be used like estrogens by the body. This is much safer than taking estrogen supplements, which are known to promote uterine and breast cancers.
  
  
  
• Be outrageous. The emotional extremes – rage, depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts – that give menopausal women the label “hysterical”, actually serve important functions in helping women come to terms with aging, death and profound personal growth.

Bursting with tidbits of detailed information such as these, and rich with the forgotten wisdom of ancient times,NEW Menopausal Years The Wise Woman Way is the perfect guide for menopausal women of today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Vibrant, passionate, and involved, Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her groundbreaking lectures, teachings, and writings on health and nutrition. She challenges conventional medical approaches with humor, insight, and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine. Unabashedly pro-woman, her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly provocative.

This is the first of a two-part series dedicated to fighting the trauma of terrorism and getting back to a more positive way of life.

Many of you may look at my title and wonder if I have ‘lost my marbles.’ Let me explain. First let me quote from a wonderful article that was passed around on the web by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. entitled: Healing From Terrorism Sickness. She states: “The main goal of terrorism is ‘intentional trauma’ to the living. The concept of doing ongoing psychic injury to thousands and millions ‘all at the same time’ is an important tactic of terrorists … innocent persons becoming afraid of life … (this) hurts the human spirit and heart.”

Clarissa then shares many ways to fight this madness including refusing to dwell on what physically depletes us of hope; dwelling in what strengthens us; resting; refusing to think that one is less able than prior to the assault, and not stopping pleasures that are good for you.

I don’t know if Clarissa realized that her suggestions fit perfectly into THE ENCHANTED SELF’s Seven Portals to Enchantment, but they do! Let’s go through these gateways and see how they preserve us from disenchantment and even worse — terror.

The first gateway is the Gateway of Self-Esteem. When terror strikes it is very common to feel vulnerable, of little importance and perhaps even valueless. This is exactly the opposite of how we need to feel for good mental health. To function at my best I need to know on a daily basis that I am ’special’. I have traits, strengths and abilities that all come together, not only to help me lead a life of meaning, but help me feel proud and sure of myself. You do too! What are some of your strengths and/or coping skills? Work with me as you read this and list some. It will be beneficial as we come out of this terror! Perhaps you have stamina, compassion, and an ability to reinvent yourself. Perhaps you are a good at cheering others up or great at making fudge!
All of these and thousands more qualify as pluses in living!

The second gateway is Meeting Our Needs. Again, when terror or severe stress hits we often stop doing what is good for ourselves. We feel weak and may let go of a growth experience or learning a new skill that is good for us. Even after the acute weakness passes we may feel unsure or no longer committed to our own goals for growth and development. Again, this is exactly the opposite of what is needed for good mental health. Did you let anything go as a result of September 11th? You might want to make a note about it and also a new start up date.

I did. I didn’t do my television show in NYC that month, as we were asked not to come into the city and that was a big loss for me. I really enjoy teaching the public about positive thinking via television. My show, Recipes for Enchantment, not only meets many of my needs but it stretches me and makes me grow further. Yes, I look forward to doing the show this month on the 17th.

The third portal to Enchantment is Recognizing Pleasure and Joy. It is very normal after a shock, in this case terrorism, to feel not only emotionally flattened, but unable to experience joy. In fact, often the person doesn’t feel entitled to laughter, a good time, etc. For some it is guilt, for others sorrow. Again, this is exactly the opposite of what we need for good mental health.

We are not only entitled to live lives of joy and happiness, we need too! Does this mean everything goes right? Absolutely not. What it does mean is that we permit ourselves to maintain an attitude that encourages the capacity to experience happiness and joy as often as possible. No one has a right to take that away from us! Now is the time to fight back! What is fun for you? What do you enjoy? What gives you pleasure? Write some of these things down and plan on doing at least three of them within a couple of weeks. For example, I love shopping and last week I really enjoyed buying a black skirt for fall. It was a small treat but it was getting back to business as usual and felt great!

Please stay with me, as next week we will look at portals four through seven. I hope that you will practice positive thinking and start enjoying your life more and more every day. It is our best defense.

About the Author

Dr. Holstein is the originator of The Enchanted Self and a psychologist since 1981. She is the author of two books: The Enchanted Self, A Positive Therapy and Recipes for Enchantment, The Secret Ingredient is YOU!
Dr. Holstein speaks on radio, and appears on television in NY and NJ. She gives lectures, seminars, retreats and audio interviews on LadybugLive.com and is in private practice in Long Branch, NJ with her husband, Dr. Russell Holstein.

MSN messenger is a pretty cool invention. I mean I’m not really into serious discussions on the email, answers to questions can often take a few days to arrive because people are so busy these days. I’ve just been ‘hooked up’ into Messenger and it’s really a different kind of communication, quick, simplistic and even humorous with the capability to express your feelings with ‘emotion’ cartoons.

With Messenger you can communicate with a group of close friends or business partners instantly whenever they are at their computer. When a message is received you are informed instantly on your desktop, you don’t have to be at an email site. A little box appears flashing the name of the sender, you read the message and send a reply when you’ve got a second free.

There’s a contact list and when you go on-line, it automatically tells you who of your connections are on and off-line at that moment. If someone goes on-line after you’ve already been at your computer, a small box appears on your screen to tell you who are now also instantly message able. It’s like the spontaneity of a telephone call but you don’t even have to dial any numbers! Just log in your password and you’re connected.

The huge array of smiley faces and other ‘emotional’ icons add another dimension to the conversations. Some of the smiley faces actually move (sticking their tongues out etc.) and there are many other symbols to express the moment. E.g.: Show a little sun when it’s sunny in your neighborhood, flash a wilted rose when your love life isn’t going to well, put up a black sheep when you’re feeling disconnected from society. How about expressing your dream of a holiday by flashing up the tropical island icon when you’re stuck in dreary office working hard on a cloudy day. They say a picture speaks a thousand words…

Well I certainly don’t work for Microsoft but I guess Bill Gates and his buddies have made a few bucks because they’ve had a couple of good ideas. They’re helping the world with their knowledge, and I reckon their MSN Messenger is another step forward in bringing the Earth together into one world. Besides the normal email format you can also have web cam and audio conversations, as well as sending files and photos instantly. It’s as sweet as that first time you kissed your honey bunny, well maybe not that sweet.

About the author:

Jesse S. Somer
M6.Net
http://www.m6.net
Jesse S. Somer is a strange, ignorant, flawed creature hoping to show others like him that technology is going to help humans become more human.

Microsoft Business Solutions is on the way to popularize it’s ERP systems implementation. Right now such products as Microsoft CRM and Small Business Manager (cheap version of Microsoft Great Plains, based on the same Great Plains Dexterity runtime and DYNAMICS.DIC dictionary) are targeted to self-implementation by in-house IT group. This is short article, written in question/answer/FAQ style to give IT Director/Controller balanced top level information on Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains implementation. If you have decided on Microsoft Great Plains as main accounting and ERP system you need to know some technical details on Great Plains installation and implementation and what is going on behind the scenes. As of right now the current version is Microsoft Great Plains 8.0. Plus you probably should know about programming language of Microsoft Great Plains – Great Plains Dexterity

If you are developer who is asked: how do we customize Great Plains with its native programming language – Great Plains Dexterity – read this and you will have the clues on where to look further.

The history of the Dexterity. Great Plains Dexterity – is proprietary programming language and technology, designed back to earlier 1990th with the goal to build platform independent graphical accounting package – Great Plains Dynamics. Dexterity itself is written in C (following popular those days hope – that C will provide platform independence). You can install Dexterity from Great Plains 7.5 CD #2. Obviously it requires a lot of learning / training, but it allows your custom piece be seamlessly integrated with Great Plains interface.

1. Native Dexterity Cursors. Dexterity was designed as platform independent programming language and so if you want your code to be operable on all currently supported databases – you use Dexterity ranges and loops to manipulate the records

2. Great Plains Dexterity with SQL Stored Procs Nowadays, most of Great Plains installations are moved to SQL Server – so you can use Dexterity for custom forms drawing only and make the buttons run SQL stored procedures.

3. COM Objects calls. Beginning with version 7.0 Dexterity supports COM objects – you register them as libraries in Dexterity. Refer the manual. This technique allows you to call such nice things as web services across the internet.

4. Dexterity Forms – if you like VBA and are comfortable to do all the business logic in VBA – you can use Dexterity as new forms creator/editor. This is OK – but you have to purchase VBA/Modifier and Customization Site Enabler from MBS.

Some restrictions. Great Plains is actually integration of multiple dictionaries: DYNAMICS.DIC, ADVSECUR.DIC, EXP1493.DIC, etc. In your Dexterity customization you can deal with one dictionary – DYNAMICS.DIC. If you need cross dictionaries customization – consider using SQL Stored Procs for crossing dictionary borders and pulling data/making changes in the other dictionary..

Happy customizing! if you want us to do the job – give us a call 1-866-528-0577! help@albaspectrum.com

About The Author

Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies – USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, based in Chicago, Arizona, California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, New York, UK, Canada, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www.albaspectrum.com), he is Dexterity, SQL, C#.Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer; akarasev@albaspectrum.com

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