(Hany Saleeb) A common issue for XML users is how to map XML to databases. This tip discusses both table-based and object-relational mappings. Both mappings are commonly used as the basis for software that transfers data between XML documents and databases, especially relational databases. An import

(Bob Moore, Brad Topol, Jie Xing, Thomas McElroy and Belinda Chang) This article completes the discussion of the Automated Problem Determination (AutoPD) tool’s symptom analysis function that began in the previous article in the series, “Overview of symptom analysis.” Before we go further into how

(Leigh Dodds) This tutorial, the first of a three-part series, introduces SPARQL — a query language and data access protocol for the Semantic Web. SPARQL is defined in terms of the W3C’s RDF data model and will work for any data source that can be mapped into RDF. The specification is under develop

(Aleksey Shevchenko) In this article, you will design a business rules framework using Java and XML. You will learn what constitutes a good business rules framework design and go over an example that demonstrates how to use the framework.

(Vishal Kumar Patil) A Web service provides functionality independent of the programming languages and the operating system; hence, it’s necessary for the Web services to throw exceptions in a platform-independent manner. To accomplish this, we need to raise SOAP exceptions from the Web service that

(Duncan Kenzie) AJAX is the hottest new technology to hit Web development in a long time. Well, it’s not really new. The technology behind AJAX has been available for years now, but it has languished in relative obscurity until this year, when a company called Adaptive Path coined the term and w

(Dan Wahlin) .NET version 2.0 adds many enhancements to the System.Xml namespace and its related classes. This sample code demonstrates how several of these enhancements can be used to consume RSS feeds to display on ASP.NET Websites in an efficient and scalable manner. Different techniques are show

(Kevin Brown) The first article in this series will concentrate on the HtmlForm control and its child controls, deciding how we can best modify the default implementation and extend its capabilities so that it will validate to the W3C’s XHTML 1.0 and 1.1 strict standards. Additionally we’ll look at

(Glen Sollors) If you have ever seen a Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF, formerly ‘Avalon’) application run, you will be sold on how it will revolutionize the computer user experience. The first word of out of my mouth when I saw a demo was “Cool.” Since .COM went .BUST, almost everyon

(Freelancer) The initial idea of this article was to bring you an simplistic example of using a Scripting Runtime Library, "click here and here, blah-blah-blah, thank you." I began to write because of the need to make my colleagues’ and my scripts file-system-aware. This ability proved to be ver