BEA Systems’ buyout of tools provider M7 signals that BEA execs believes that traditional java/J2EE developers will be working side-by-side with non-Java devs in designing and building out enterprise SOA solutions.

Web Services have become a viable technology as more and more companies are beginning to realize the ROI inherent in standards-based integration. Web Services signifies a less expensive, loosely coupled and persistent approach to integrate heterogeneous, disparate and distributed enterprise applicat

This article discusses how to use XQuery in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to query XML data from a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database. You may want to include well-formed XML tags in the text data of the SQL Server 2000 database before you query the data from SQL Server 2005.

(Bipin Joshi) In the Part 2 of this series we saw how to deal with DataSet and populate controls such as ListBox. Since we are populating the control values from the client side script; they will not be accessible on the server side automatically. In this part we will elaborate on how to access thes

(Vikram Goyal) Betwixt is a Jakarta Commons component that provides XML introspection routines for mapping JavaBeans to XML and vice versa.. It uses concepts similar to the JavaBeans Introspector and BeanInfo to decipher information about XML data and map it to JavaBeans. Digester rules are used to

(Uche Ogbuji) One of the best things about XML is that it’s just text, and you can use many general-purpose text processing tools to work with it. Occasionally, however, this doesn’t work so well because the tags get in the way. As an author for developerWorks I have to submit my work in an XML temp

(Benoît Marchal) This article looks at validation, error handling, and schemas. Schemas primarily address the design, documentation, and validation of an interface. I’ll focus primarily on validation.

(Leaf369) This article presents a simplified AJAX library written in JavaScript, hopefully many developers will find it useful.

(Jeffrey Zeldman) XHTML is the standard markup language for web documents and the successor to HTML 4. A mixture of classic (HTML) and cutting–edge (XML), this hybrid language looks and works much like HTML but is based on XML, the web’s “super” markup language, and brings web pages many of XML’s be

(Maynard Cuellar) AJAX Date Picker is a free ASP.NET 2.0 calendar control that utilizes AJAX techniques to get data from the server without an entire page postback. You can specify the clickable dates on a given month as well as other days like holidays, etc. A great application for this control is