(Bruce Johnson) Last year, American corporations spent over $4 billion integrating heterogeneous applications (otherwise known as Enterprise Application Integration or EAI). Why? Because one of the best ways to squeeze more profits out of a company is to reduce the costs of doing business. Among the

(John Ferguson Smart) JasperReports, a powerful, flexible open-source reporting engine, is easy to integrate into Java enterprise applications, but it lacks an integrated visual report editor. So, if you want to use JasperReports directly, you need to manipulate its XML report structure—a relatively

(Steve Speicher and Kevin E. Kelly) Build compound XML Schema profiles from core specification schemas. Part 1 of this two-part series explores several extension capabilities of XML Schema and compares approaches in building Compound Document Format (CDF) profiles. This article defines a pattern for

(GB Shah) The previous article explained the basics of XHTML. Here, we learn about modular XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). With CSS, you can provide a consistent look-and-feel to multiple pages across a web site.

(Joe Gregorio) After a year of work — two if you count the work done before the AtomPub WG was formed — the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) is moving closer to being done. There are still parts that are unspecified, and other parts of the protocol are under debate even now. Even given that, som

(Russell Butek) xsd:choice is a somewhat common XML construct. However, mappings of xsd:choice to a programming language are not always straightforward. For example, the Java mapping of Web services, defined by the JAX-RPC specification, does not provide an explicit mapping from xsd:choice into Java

(Ken Getz) I need to create a Windows application that includes a “search” form that interrogates an XML document and returns the results in a grid. I have an XML file I need to load, and after I have it loaded, I want to display its contents in the grid. Then, as users enter a value into a text box

(Jeff Hanson) The onslaught of Web services messaging and XML-based data transfer has led to a need to express these message exchanges in some structured way. The Web services Description Language (WSDL) deals with this need by defining an XML grammar for exposing services as sets of endpoints for e

(Brett McLaughlin) For the past two years, the industry has inundated you with messages that you’ve reached a new plateau in high-speed connectivity. Around 25 percent of the world’s computer users now have at least a cable modem or DSL connection; of course, this implies that speed is no longer an

Now we have an easy and platform-independent method of describing XML data, validating its type as we wish and modifying and reading it programmatically. So we basically have a transportable miniature database. No surprise then that when you start to work with it, you’ll feel the need for a query me