(Eric Giguere) This tutorial provides an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS exposes raw product information and key parts of Amazon.com technology to third-party developers for use in their applications. After describing how AWS works in general, the tutorial focuses on the main AWS service,

W3C’s Voice Browser Working Group has released a new version of the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1 specification at Candidate Recommendation level. VoiceXML “enables integration of voice services with data services using the familiar client-server paradigm. It is is designed for

(David Kershaw) Moving information from a database into an application may be the most common challenge developers face. How many of us make it through life without meeting object/relational (O/R) mapping in some form? Certainly not too many. Lately it has become equally difficult to avoid XML/relat

(Christopher Harrison) For the end user, AJAX transforms hitherto clumsy, simple Web applications with characteristically slow response times into Web applications more akin to their native cousins (Microsoft Window or UNIX clients) by shortening page response time and providing rich enhancements in

(Elliotte Harold) XSLT is a functional programming language like Haskell or Scheme, and unlike C or Fortran. Thus it has no loops and no mutable variables. Instead, you must replace these constructs with recursion and parameters. This tip demonstrates how to provide this functionality using named te

(Ed Tittel) As a result of input from our readers, I’ll be starting an eight-part series of tutorials on XSLT in my next XML tip running through September. The focus of these tutorials will be on the XML Style Sheet Language, XSLT, which provides mechanisms for ingesting and parsing XML documents as

(Paul Krill) Sun Microsystems officials at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Monday presented road maps for the Java programming language, providing details on planned improvements such as boosts for Web services and XML.

(Elliotte Harold) As XML gains popularity, more and more users are finding themselves with a lot of XML documents to manage. Native XML databases are being developed to meet this obvious need. This article examines one such database, the open source eXist. eXist has the tools you need to manage data

(Michael Champion) During the past seven years, XML (eXtensible Markup Language) has gone from “What is it?” to “We’re doing it.” Surveys show that most enterprise IT departments have some XML-related projects underway, and many companies use XML in mission-critical applications. As a result, the vo

(Dan Connolly) In information management, persistence and availability are in constant tension. This tension has led to separate technologies for Uniform Resource Names (URNs) and Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). Meanwhile, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) are designed to serve as both persisten