Veteran developer Howard Katz shows you how to build a custom parser with JavaCC in the first of a two-part article on this popular parser generator tool.

Available for download from the Java BluePrints Program, the Java Adventure Builder Sample Application v1.0 is the first release of the new Java BluePrints application. This early access release is a native and deployment. The J2EE platform manages the infrastructure and supports the Web services to

After three years of exploring the XML jungle, the time has come to add another type of map to this area. While the Column Trailmap gives an overview of the columns written for the XML section of WebReference, we will over the next couple of installments create a map of XML standards.

by Uche Ogbuji – Python & XML, written by Christopher Jones and Fred Drake, Jr. (O’Reilly and Associates, 2002), introduces Python programmers to XML processing. Drake is a core developer of PyXML, and Jones is an experienced developer in Python and XML, as well as an experienced author. As you woul

This article illustrates how to apply an Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Transformation (XSLT) to an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document using the XslTransform class to create a new XML document. XSL is an XML-based language that is designed to transform one XML document into another XML

by Yuval Ben-Itzhak – Web applications enable companies to conduct business with customers and partners, delivering highly valuable, and often confidential, information across enterprise barriers. However, the value of Internet communications cannot be realized until users have confidence that Inter

By Mikael Bergkvist – The idea of XMLscript seem obscure to me. I dont see the point. If XML is used that way, it would represent scripts without adding anything useful. It does’nt seem to extend scripting with any new advantages that can be exploited in any practical way. The concept is intriguing

Writing Web applications is a lot of work. Along the lines of XUL for user interfaces, fellow XML site author Jan Egil Refsnes has developed an XML vocabulary for defining whole Web applications: Application Markup Language (AppML).

Debuggers are very handy in programming, but they can also be complex pieces of software in their own right — complex to set up, to learn, and to use. Sometimes you just need a quick print-out of some values that you suspect to be at the heart of a specific problem you’re seeing. In this article, U

by Anthony Coates – Unlike traditional make utilities, Ant is written in Java, so Ant is a good cross-platform solution for controlling automatic file building. That is good news for anyone developing cross-platform XSLT scripts because you only need to target one build environment. Anyone who has t