by Mette Hedin – Many W3C XML Schema (WXS) data binding tools for Java are now emerging. These tools generate Java code from instances of WXS in order to represent the structures defined therein. The autogenerated code has the ability to convert from XML format to Java objects and vice versa. This g

by Jan Egil Refsnes – Some of the different ways XML can be used.

by Kevin Jones – “Test early, test often” is a tenet of extreme programming because testing reduces debugging time. See how to use the Cactus environment to unit test server-side Java components.

A step-by-step guided tour on connecting to Oracle database from InfoPath 2003 via .NET Web service.

Not only is logging an important element in development and testing cycles — providing crucial debugging information — it is also useful for detecting bugs once a system has been deployed in a production environment, providing precise context information to fix them. In this article, Ruth Zamorano

by Petr Dvorak – This introduction to Web services eschews the canonical “stockQuote” service in favor of a more complex and more informative SOAP-based chat application. Learn how to develop a fully-functional application using the Eclipse IDE and free Web services software from Systinet.

by Bob DuCharme – Most XSLT 1.0 processors, particularly the ones written in Java, let you write extension functions in the processor’s host language, link them in, and then call those functions from stylesheets. The XSLT 1.0 spec spells out specific ways to check whether a particular extension func

The book Secure XML is an authoritative guide to learn about XML and issues involved with XML security. This book is organized and written to help you understand, design and develop secure XML applications.

by Jonathan Maron and Jason Kinner – J2EE and other open standards provide the building blocks for storing, indexing, accessing, and retrieving multimedia assets

by James Mason – The annual family reunion for connoisseurs of structured documents, “Extreme Markup Languages”, gathered again in Montréal, August 4-8. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies) chaired, assisted by Debbie Lapeyre (Mulberry), Steve Newcomb (Coolheads Consulting), Michael Sperberg-McQueen