The open source jDefend test driver suite enables you to configure all your input parameters and pass them to your test driver using a single XML-based configurations file. Subbu Vedula demonstrates how jDefend can make your Java code testing quicker and simpler-and he gives you all the source code!

by Paul Madsen, Carlisle Adams – The widespread uptake of e-commerce has been stalled as much by the inability of businesses to guarantee the privacy preferences of their customers for the personal data entrusted to them as by any other single factor. Of those who are connected but do not purchase o

By PATRICK THIBODEAU – XML, the data exchange standard that's being deployed by federal agencies to improve interoperability, isn't a mature standard. And without centralized leadership, XML implementations by various agencies could actually hurt the interoperability of government systems, t

By Wylie Wong – Microsoft announced new software tools Wednesday in hopes of persuading developers to build Web services using its .Net technology. At Microsoft's Tech-Ed developer conference in New Orleans, Microsoft Senior Vice President Eric Rudder said the company's .Net Web servi

By Jon Fortt – Some people thought FrameMaker, a little-known layout program within a big software company, was headed for the dustbin. Customers accused Adobe Systems of neglecting the product. Rumor spread of its impending doom. But now, as part of its new network publishing strategy, Adobe is tou

By Leila Naslavsky and Dorrit Gordon – Governments, corporations, museums, libraries and other organizations all maintain repositories of documents. As the volume of information maintained by these institutions grows, so does the need for simple, flexible mechanisms for managing that information.

The market for Extensible Markup Language data storage technologies will rise to $4.1 billion by 2005 from only $75 million in 2000, a report by XML-focused industry analyst group ZapThink LLC finds.The rapid growth results from a need to maintain XML content beyond single transactions or in

Two new drafts detailing the future of XML namespaces, Namespaces in XML 1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.1 Requirements are now available.

Uche Ogbuji moves on to a discussion of a far more sophisticated RDF query language than the primitive API he has discussed thus far. This is the foundation for establishing the middleware for the Issue Tracker article in coming installments.

by Will Provost – The XML developer who needs to validate documents as part of application flow may choose to begin by writing W3C XML Schema for those documents. This is natural enough, but W3C XML Schema is only one part of the validation story. In this article, we will discover a multiple-stage v