by Xenos J. Sroka – One constant in this high-tech age is that nothing stays constant. Things change all the time, whether it's stock prices, Florida vote tallies, or even code. On more than one occasion, programmers have had to adjust the parameters of the stored procedures nestled in their dat
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XSLTunit
XSLTunit from Examplotron author Eric van der Vlist applies the "test first programming" principle from Extreme Programming (XP) to bring unit testing to Extensible Style Language Transformations (XSLT) template development.
Microsoft Overtakes Oracle in Windows Databases, Gartner Says
Microsoft Corp., the largest software maker, surpassed Oracle Corp. in the market for database software running on server computers with the Windows NT operating system last year, a market research firm said. Microsoft increased its share of the Windows NT database market to 38 percent co
Converting Web Pages into XML Data Sources
by Jim O'Grady – HTML and the Web have permanently changed the way people communicate. XML promises to do the same for the way computer systems communicate. HTML is convenient for people—it makes information easier to view and navigate. Unfortunately, it's not nearly as convenient for comput
Using the Jena API to Process RDF
by Joe Verzulli – There has been growing interest in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and a number of tools and libraries have been developed for processing it. This article describes one such library, Jena, a Java API for processing RDF. It is also the name of an open source implementation
XML Data Manipulation in C# Using DataSet Class
ADO.NET, a major upgrade to ADO introduced some nice architectural enhancemenets. DataSet class, an alternative to disconnected recordsets, is an example of these upgrades. The DataSet class is useful to hold chunks of data read from the database. The in-memory cache for DataSet consist of tables, r
BMC Software's SQL-Programmer® Chosen for Visual Basic Programmer's Journal Reader's Choice Awards
BMC Software, Inc., announced that its SQL-Programmer® was named a winner of Visual Basic Programmer's Journal's (VBPJ) annual Reader's Choice Awards. The VBPJ Annual Readers Choice Awards recognize products that provide innovative solutions to application development challenges. VBPJ re
Speed Tips For SQL Server SELECT Statements
by Neil Boyle – You can code a SQL SELECT statement in a number of ways to get the same results, but some versions of the same query may perform better than others. In this article we will look at ways to exploit this.
XML and SOAP Programming for BizTalk™ Servers: Chapter 5: The XML Application
Now that you've seen an XML document and a schema to describe its structure, let's create an application to use the data. I'll walk you through the two basic ways to deal with an XML document: as an in-memory tree object and as an object that generates events as it is processed by the pa
Apache Xerces Workshop
IBM will be hosting a day-long workshop on the Apache Xerces2 XML parser in Cupertino, the week following Sun's JavaOne conference. The goal of the workshop is to explain the design and implementation of Xerces2, as well as resolve design issues and discuss the future of the project.