by Ayesha Malik – The financial services industry spends billions of dollars on IT development to maintain its competitive edge. Most recently, banks, risk management firms, and insurance companies have been focusing on automating business processes and building systems that reduce the time from neg

In addition to XSLT, there are several other XML document parsing and database specific techniques that can be used to migrate XML data into a database. Rather than focusing on these solutions, this example demonstrates how native ADO.NET classes such as SqlDataAdapter and DataSet can be used along

by Hitesh Seth – Sun has launched a set of technologies collectively known as the JAX Pack. JAX Pack – essentially a bundled set of Java technologies for XML – consists of JAXP (XML Processing), JAXB (XML Binding), JAXM (XML Messaging), JAX-RPC (XML-based RPC), and JAXR (XML Registries).

By Ayesha Malik – Unified Modeling Language (UML) is an industry standard that is used in modeling business concepts when building software systems in an object-oriented manner. Recently, XML has gained ground in becoming a key enabler of these systems in terms of transport of information and comman

XQX is the innovative product which enables companies to make available, their data, in an easy and effective manner. With the power of XQX companies can allow people, both within and outside their organization, to retrieve important information, and deliver that information to a variety of endpoint

by Kyle Downey – This pattern contains XML untyped by DTD or schema, but follows accessors for underlying program objects. It allows for unlimited extension by multiple, uncoordinated parties at the cost of lack of type-checking; and is simple to implement, with supporting libraries abounding (e.g.

By Patrick Gray – The problem centers on macros embedded in documents in the Office 2003 beta, or test, version. When saved as an XML (Extensible Markup Language) file, the macros can more or less wind up anywhere. This means that scanners must search the entire contents of a file, rather than exami

By Apu Shah – This week, new specifications providing Java with business process integration and workflow API’s were proposed along with a proposal for the next generation of the Java API’s for XML Processing. In addition, the Executive committee for the Java Mobile Edition platform approved the fin

In some cases, you can avoid repeating identical data fields by using internal references from one field to another. Uche Ogbuji demonstrates how in this tip.

by Dimitris Dimitriadis – In an earlier article, I argued that providing uniform test frameworks and detailed specification formats would enhance interoperability of specification implementations. Technical issues aside, some of which I discussed in that article, there are a few important reasons wh