(Brett McLaughlin) The previous installments of this column gave you a thorough overview of JAXB, so you’re now ready to study varying data binding implementations. This article begins an in-depth look at JaxMe, an open source implementation of JAXB. In addition to offering several enhancements

(Hilton Giesenow) Prior to .NET, DCOM existed as Microsoft’s solution to remote object access. This technology leveraged the successful COM architecture to provide an infrastructure for remote communication. However, DCOM suffered from a variety of drawbacks and difficulties, and it ultimately led t

(Amar Nalla) XML has become the industry-wide standard for exchanging data across business systems. At the same time, the use of a relational backend as the data-store is well established. As developers, we are sometimes faced with the task of exposing existing relational data as XML to share it acr

(Bob DuCharme) Michael Kay is the author of Wrox press’s “XSLT Programmer’s Reference,” the standard reference work on XSLT, and the editor of the W3C’s XSLT 2.0 specification, which is currently in Working Draft status. His Java-based Saxon XSLT processor is one of the most successful and popular X

(Brian A. Randell and Rockford Lhotka) Whenever you want to use a modeling tool to describe software systems, you’re frequently faced with a serious investment of time and money. Often the diagrams that result look great, but are quickly forgotten as development gets into full swing. While there are

(Russell Butek) This tip explains the nuances of the two types of import statements found in a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file.

(Tod Newcombe) For years, counties have struggled to automate one of government’s most paper-intensive transactions. The recording of land documents leapt forward in the mid-1990s when imaging technology first turned paper deeds, titles and releases into digital images that could be electronically c

(Molly Holzschlag) Despite all the attention on Web standards in the past few years, there are ongoing problems with document conformance when it comes to HTML and XHTML.

(Ed Scannell and Cathleen Moore) IBM later this month will demonstrate Project Cinnamon, the company’s content management technology designed to ease document management and storage through XML tagging. Big Blue plans to ship a version of Project Cinnamon this fall, bundling it into DB2 Content

(Marcia Gulesian) The financial consequences of your selection of software, hardware, and technology are often dwarfed by your decisions about the other component of every computer-based solution — that is, people. In order to have a fairly concrete discussion of the roles people occupy in soft