(Sneha Philipose) The Semantic Web is a project that intends to create a universal medium for information exchange by giving meaning (semantics), in a manner understandable by machines, to the content of documents on the Web. Currently under the direction of the Web’s creator, Tim Berners-Lee of the

Managed Methods has added runtime exception management in the latest release of JaxView, their product for managing and monitoring Web service operations and SOA environments.

(Robert D. Kugel) Most people who have heard of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) associate it with regulatory submissions. U.S.-based public companies have the option of filing XBRL-tagged results with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), but it is used more intensively elsewhe

(Rod Coffin) I hope you’ve been following the growing interest in semantic technology and reading the articles on DevX’s Semantic Zone, and feel ready to try out semantic technologies in your own applications. If so, you might have obtained a moderately sized RDF dataset from your domain and eagerly

(Asif Sayed) Reporting on data sources such as: MS Access, SQL Server and Oracle, is common with Crystal Reports (CR). How about XML as data source? Well, sure, you might be wondering how to do that? Is it even possible? Well, with help of this article I’ll show you how to use the XML data source an

(Alexander Nowak) Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) has support for a plethora of data sources. Out of the box, its data modules, called data extensions, allow you to build reports from SQL Server and Oracle database, as well as any other database that comes with an OLE DB or ODBC provi

(Jeni Tennison) A Ruby on Rails specialist friend and I are building a Web 2.0 application. I would say it’s “social networking for the dead” except that I doubt that description would be attractive to most people (my ex-Goth defacto being a rare exception), and it can be for the living too. It’s a

(Prajakta Joshi) As a member of the XML test team I and others on my team have developed a number of tools that aid in the testing of our products. One of the tools I’ve found useful is one that I wrote that utilizes the XPathReader class to show the nodes in an XML document that match a user-specif

(Michael Galpin) This four-part series demonstrates how to use the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and XForms together to create a dynamic Web application. Part 1 looked at the JavaScript underpinnings of each technology. Part 2 shows you how to use those JavaScript underpinnings to start mixing the two te

(Rick Jelliffe) In my blog Converting Content Models to Schematron I outlined some code ideas. Recently we (Topologi) have been working on an actually implementation for a client: a series of XSLT 2 scripts that we want to release as open source in a few months time.