(Puneet Sangal) This article shows you how to publish XML documents in PDF using Apache Cocoon. Cocoon can create result documents in a variety of formats, including HTML and PDF. Cocoon’s popularity reflects that of the Adobe’s PDF format, which most vendors prefer for e-mailing richly formatted pr
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(Uche Ogbuji) A critical issue in designing XML formats is figuring out how to arrange elements and represent relationships between them. Element design works best when it naturally corresponds to how people think about the concepts that each element represents. This article discusses best practices
Improve performance in your XML applications, Part 2
(Elena Litani and Michael Glavassevich) In this installment of a three-part series describing best practices for writing XML applications, the authors explain how to improve your SAX and DOM applications’ performance by using the Xerces2 implementation. They also include code samples to show you ho
How To Get Output Into SQL Server Table
(Gregory A. Larsen) Have you every needed to get the information returned from a stored procedure (SP) into a SQL Server table? Or have you wondered how you might get the contents of an operating system (OS) file into a SQL Server table? How about placing the output of some Windows executable into a
Oracle Tip: Understand the difference between IN and EXISTS in subqueries
(Scott Stephens) When coding a SQL statement with tables in master-detail relationships, it’s common to have to decide whether to write the query using the WHERE EXISTS (. . .) clause or the WHERE value IN (. . .) clause. You may resist using WHERE EXISTS because it has the awkward syntax of returni
JDBC drivers supported by the DB2 Stored Procedure Builder and DB2 Development Center for OS/390 and z/OS
(Peggy Rader) This article describes your options for JDBC driver selection when using the DB2 Stored Procedure Builder (SPB) or the DB2 Development Center (DC) to create Java stored procedures on OS/390 and z/OS platforms.
Introducing the Reflexive User Interface Builder
(Barry A. Feigenbaum and Michael Squillace) The IBM Reflexive User Interface Builder (RIB), a new technology available from alphaWorks, is an application and toolkit for building and rendering Java AWT/Swing and Eclipse SWT GUIs. RIB specifies a flexible and easy-to-use XML markup language for descr
XML Schema: Understanding Namespaces
(Rahul Srivastava) As defined by the W3C Namespaces in XML Recommendation, an XML namespace is a collection of XML elements and attributes identified by an Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI); this collection is often referred to as an XML "vocabulary." One of the primary motivations for
True Session Wait Activity in Oracle 10g
(James Koopmann) It used to be that a DBA would sit in front of the terminal screen and continually hit the ENTER key to watch activity in the V$SESSION_WAIT view to try and get a glimpse of the bottleneck and wait activity for connected sessions. This in itself was a very tedious task and honestly
InformixConnection: THE BIG LEAGUES
With a head-turning new release (backed by the full power of IBM’s software portfolio), Informix technology blazes onto center field. In this special e-book for Informix customers, you’ll read how businesses are using the new release of Informix Dynamic Server, how Informix technology is findin