serge2k

one of my professors usually hires a few students a year to work for him. This year he has work in business intelligence as well as an ongoing project converting an old java based simulator to the new version of java.

basically I was just wondering if anyone has some good links for an introduction to Business Intelligence?

Or information on serialization (I'm a java programmer but haven't dealt with it, apparently the simulator relies heavily on it).

dham

Hey. Your post is a little broad but I'll try to help you a little.

BI is basically to my knowledge a set of skill's to develop business applications. If he is telling you this then he want's you to read up on how to connect to databases, creating and store sessions, security, memory management and probably thread support. This would be what I call business intelligence. I use these skill set's everyday at my job to code web enterprise applications. You have to know this kind of stuff to develop business applications like this.

Serialization is just a class in Java. It's far more complicated in other languages. You usually just implement the class in java and be done. At least I do. It is used in storing sessions(cookies) and http servlets because these require your classes to be past as serializable data. Hope this helps you a little. Good luck.

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