(Michael M. David) Before the advent of relational databases, I worked as a designer and implementer on some of the earliest hierarchical database query languages. Back then, a query language was truly a nonprocedural process and meant exactly what the intended meaning of query means. A query is a s

(Jacek Furmankiewicz) Despite all the buzz generated by dynamic languages (Ruby, Groovy, Python, etc.) and their related frameworks (such as Ruby on Rails), the vast majority of Java developers reading this article deal mostly with pure Java at their day jobs and will continue to do so for many year

(Phil Ballard and Michael Moncur) In this chapter you will learn about the individual building blocks of Ajax and how they fit together to form the architecture of an Ajax application. Subsequent chapters will examine these components in more detail, finally assembling them into a working Ajax appli

(Sam Cavenagh) Integration is an important part in any B2B application and XML is a common (IMHO good) way of passing data between systems. Generally one side will have to do the integration dirty work. Normally this is the smaller company, which for one reason or other is where I’m always working

(Stefan Tilkov) When people start trying out REST, they usually start looking around for examples and not only find a lot of examples that claim to be RESTful, or are labeled as a REST API, but also dig up a lot of discussions about why a specific service that claims to do REST actually fails to do

(Jani Giannoudis) In 1992, Microsoft introduced the Rich Text Format for specifying simple formatted text with embedded graphics. Initially intended to transfer such data between different applications on different operating systems (MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2, and Apple Macintosh), today this format is

(Martin Brown) In this article, look at some top XML schemas that provide solutions for all sorts of problems, from the basics of Web services to data description. You’ll also cover database-like solutions that involve contacts and invoices. The schemas in this article were chosen for their usefulne

(Marc) At DataDirect we often get XQuery coding questions from SQL programmers. It can probably be explained by two main reasons. First there are many developers with a SQL background, not surprising they are looking for some analogy with SQL during their first XQuery steps. Second, with DataDirect

(Jonathan Mack) As seen at the recent 2008 Semantic Technology conference in San Jose, serious interest in corporate use of semantic technology continues to grow rapidly. Semantically-enabled applications are increasingly seen as fertile ground for Web 2.0 applications such as mash ups as well as th

(David Carver) Over the last year, I concentrated much of my community contributions and development time for eclipse on the XML and XSD editors provided by the eclipse Web Tools Platform. The reason was primarily from frustration of using the tools when it came to real world B2B schemas produced by