by John E. Simpson – As you’ve evidently been learning, moving data by hand between XML and relational databases can be frustrating, intellectually stimulating, maybe even rewarding. Mostly, though, it can leave you simply hungry for help.For almost anything involving getting XML data into o

By Martin LaMonica – The free service, available from BEA’s developer Web site, is based on XML Beans, software that the company is testing. The software converts Extensible Markup Language (XML) document definitions into Java code. By generating much of the Java needed to process an XML document wi

By Howard Katz – This tip focuses on document order, SAX, and something I call document order indices, or DOIs for short. I’ll start with a short discussion of document order, explaining what it is, where it’s useful in an XML context, and why it’s important. I’ll then present some simple SAX code t

The Apache Web Services Invocation Framework team announced the first open release of their Apache WSIF API.

by Michael Fitzgerald – In this article, I’ll discuss the XML structures in an Ant build file, named build.xml by default, talk about some common XML-related tasks that Ant can perform, and then finish up with an example of XML pipelining.

Angling for the convergence of application integration and application development, BEA looks to make life easier for Java developers with XMLBeans.

The OASIS technology standards group said Thursday it has formed a committee to develop a global technical framework for the searching and sharing of suspected criminal and terrorist evidence by law enforcement agencies.

by Thomas Murphy – Web services have been a hot topic for more than a year now. It’s a good time to look at the progress in their standards and current market adoption.

By Hitesh Seth – XML is a relatively simple development. Yet it has probably been the most powerful development to date in the world of i-Technology. From being the launchpad for information delivery on the Web (XHTML, SMIL, SVG) to electronic business communication (Chem standards, ebXML, Ro

by Mark Pilgrim – Unfortunately in the past few years, as RSS has gained popularity, the quality of RSS feeds has dropped. There are now dozens of versions of hundreds of tools producing RSS feeds. Many have bugs. Few build RSS feeds using XML libraries; most treat it as text, by piecing the feed to