Read about building business-to-business applications with JavaTM technology and XML. Within the next few years, business-to-business (B2B) commerce is expected to experience phenomenal growth. Recently, Forrester Research estimated that B2B e-commerce revenue in the United States will increase from

The previous section illustrated the basics of 4RDF, yet 4RDF has many other features. One of the more ground-breaking among those is RDF Inference Language, or RIL. RIL is considered experimental in 4RDF 0.9.1, but it does perform some heavy duty work in the OpenTechnology.org code, and is maturing

SYS-CON Media and Camelot Communications announced that XML DevCon Fall 2000 to be held November 12-15, 2000 at the San Jose DoubleTree Hotel is expected to play host XML enthusiasts from around the world, including programmers, developers, engineers, software architects, system engineers, Web devel

XMLSolutions Corporation, a leading worldwide provider of software for conducting XML-based direct materials procurement, today announced support for the bi-directional translation of Uniform Code Council (UCC) direct materials EDI transaction sets to XML through the XMLSolutions Business Integratio

4Suite is a library and collection of tools for XML and object database development using Python, with support for most UNIX flavors and Win32. Fourthought, Inc. develops 4Suite as open source software, and the package (this article discusses the 0.9.1 release) includes a set of sub-components:

Sequoia Software is the leading provider of XML-powered e-business software. Sequoia’s flagship product, XPS, leverages XML to create the premiere e-business portal. One of the unique applications of XML within the portal is ability create contextual indexes from XML content. Searches of the index p

When your XSLT processor is processing one node of your source tree, and you want to get something from another node, you can use an XPath expression and an xsl:value-of instruction. I'm going to hurry through the general structure of an XPath expression to get to the really useful stuff: using

ASP+ configuration information is stored in XML-based configuration files. Using built-in features of IIS 5.0 and IE 5.0 such as the FileSystemObject, the XML Document Object Model (DOM) and XML Data Islands, we can easily develop a rich tool for modifying and editing these configuration files. In t

XML is the eXtensible Markup Language, a subset of SGML, intended to allow the creation and processing of application-specific markup languages. Python makes an excellent language for processing XML data. This document is the reference manual for the Python/XML package, containing several XML module

The big news on the datatypes front is the introduction of union dataypes, which join atomic types and list datatypes. This allows definition of types such as