(Clint Batman) With the emergence of popular online mapping applications over the past few years, more businesses are seeing a need to build mapping and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) functionality into their own custom applications. While online services like Google Maps & Virtual Earth work

(Dan McCreary) There are many common problems that occur when corporations expand beyond their initial ontologies and start to build multiple ontologies that must remain consistent. Here is a list of the common problems, which are covered in this article:

(Vikram Vaswani) The YouTube video sharing site allows Web application developers to access public content through its REST-based developer API. The SimpleXML extension in PHP is ideal for processing the XML feeds generated by this API and using them to build customized PHP applications. This articl

(William Brogden) In my previous article I found that RESTful Web Service development support based on the Jersey project is available as a plugin for NetBeans. Now I want to look at what is involved in creating and deploying a Web service based on the Jersey toolkit. First we need to catch up on th

(Edward Moemeka) So when last we left off, we had been discussing the use of XAML as a means of storing configuration information for applications. During the conversation we illustrated how a XAML file which contained strongly typed configuration data could be loaded into the process via the XamlRe

(Ramakrishnan Kannan, Prasad K. Nagaraj and Saikrishna Vaidyanathan) Mashups, a critical component of Web 2.0, aggregate feeds from many applications to generate new content. Because many of today’s core enterprise business applications run in mainframes, the content in mainframes must be delivered

(Eric Larson) Test Driven Development is a relatively popular methodology nowadays and I think XML tools can play crucial aspect in better testing. Testing frameworks are more than capable of using and testing XML based applications, but just in case you have ever had trouble, here are a few tips.

(Edward Moemeka) A popular pattern for application design and development is to use offline files to persist configuration information so that downstream users can modify certain properties associated with an application without requiring rebuild activities like SDLC. When I was a Java Architect for

(Dr. Waseem Roshen) Part 1 and Part 2 of this series covered the basic concepts necessary to develop services-based integration patterns. This article, the third in the series, and the upcoming Part 4 further develop these ideas so the services-based integration patterns become full-blown services-b

(Ayyappan Gandhirajan) Web Services are a true interoperable technology that enables disparate systems to talk to each other using a common language. The Web Service consumers communicate to Web Services using SOAP messages transported over standard HTTP protocol. HTTP is a stateless protocol in nat