Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML

Community

The Myth of Human Readability in XML

(Bill Chessman) If you’ve seen my past posts, you know I’ve spent a lot of time on the discussion of EDI vs. XML. In part it’s been a quest to understand why trends seem to flow as they do. Back in December, in response to a post I wrote, Tom Reynolds said as part of his comment, “Let’s admit that […]

Community

Build a mobile RSS reader

(Frank Ableson) What good is a mobile computing environment if you can’t keep track of your favorite news feeds on the go? Sure, you can use Android’s browser to read your favorite Web sites, but it’s unlikely the sites are optimized for a screen two inches high. And besides, then you’ll miss the op

Community

Generating Java using XSLT

(Oleg Tkachenko) We are working on yet another language migration tool and faced once again Java source code generation problem. Unfortunately Java doesn’t have anything similar to .NET’s CodeDOM, so we had to build own own Java generator. This time our development platform is XSLT 2.0. Yes, we are

Community

Addressing Doubts about REST

(Stefan Tilkov) Invariably, learning about REST means that you’ll end up wondering just how applicable the concept really is for your specific scenario. And given that you’re probably used to entirely different architectural approaches, it’s only natural that you start doubting whether REST, or rath