(Akash Mehta) You’ve tried your hand at building mashups, experimented with a few RESTful Web services, maybe even started your own. Sure, you’ve got data sharing working. But how do you make your Web applications really talk to each other?

(Taylor Cowan) The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) proposed standard for linking and expressing data on the Web. Java developers who develop applications for the Semantic Web will need to convert RDF properties to or from Java types. Jenabean uses the Jena

(Leonard Anghel) To clone an XML document at runtime, use the StAX XMLEventReader and XMLEventWriter classes like this:

(Sam Shiles) The parsing and processing of the xml response data from various sources (especially SOAP messages returned from webservices via the XMLHttpResponse object) is becoming a more and more common task in the browser. The idea behind the solution presented in this article is to ease this par

(Mike) The XML data source does not handle complexity within XML very well. For the simplest XML it is fine, but for anything that is complex – in other words, real world data – one needs to resort to Script tasks or executables to actually get to data. Whenever you see “<xsd:complexType name=”Wha

(Alexander Falk) It’s called Version 2008 Release 2, but in reality it should be a new major version. Our “problem” is that each year has 12 months whereas our talented engineers are practically cranking out a new major version every 5-6 months. So we have to call one of them the major release and t

(Loretta Hicks) Developing portlets that provide user interfaces to human tasks in a remote business process presents some challenges. The My Tasks and Task List portlets included with IBM WebSphere Portal are useful for some scenarios. If a custom user interface is required for the human tasks, the

(Mukul Gandhi) With the release of version 2.0, XSLT now allows you to design your stylesheets to be schema-aware. A schema-aware XSLT system offers many benefits, including the ability to validate input trees prior to the XSLT transformation to ensure that the XSLT stylesheet only processes valid i

(Paul Kimmel) I spent the week of April 13th in Redmond at the MVP Summit. If you don’t know, MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional. One usually becomes and MVP by nomination and then having acquired some unknown amount of community kudos. For instance, lots of blogging and voluntarily helping p

(Jimmy Zhang) Traditionally DOM or SAX-based enterprise applications have to repeat CPU-intensive XML parsing when accessing the same documents multiple times. This article introduces a very simple, general-purpose, native XML index called VTD+XML (http://vtd-xml.sourceforge.net/persistence.html) th