(Gavin King) In this article on JavaLobby, Daniel Spiewak, the creator of something called ActiveObjects takes some pot shots at Hibernate, and compares Hibernate negatively with Ruby’s ActiveRecord and ActiveObjects. Now, I’m always interested to read informed criticism, but in this case, Daniel se

(Anghel Leonard) Use the following code to insert an XML Schema into an XQuery query. The following code assumes that the XML Schema is: file:///C://Data_Local//xml//docs//AirWings_xslt_xmlschema.xsd

(John Cronan) ADO.NET is extraordinarily useful, but it’s not without its flaws. One of its biggest annoyances is that it includes far too much repetitive code. Fortunately, you can eliminate a lot of the repetitive code that goes along with ADO.NET by applying the declarative model to the data-acce

(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 starts with a bottom-up approach to the problem of using GWT and XForms together. It takes a look at some of the underpinnings of each technolog

(Debjani Mallick) Ajax is the shorthand notation for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is a web development technique that is used for developing interactive web applications. Ajax develops interactive web application by sending a small amount of data to the server behind the scenes. The advantage

(Marc Van Cappellen) With the introduction of the Office Open XML in Microsoft Office 2007 and OpenDocument Format used by OpenOffice applications, your office documents like spreadsheets and word processing documents, become consumable with XQuery.

(Yuli Vasiliev) Both PHP and Oracle provide comprehensive support for XML and XML-related technologies. Practically, this means you can perform any XML processing either with PHP or inside an Oracle database. While PHP allows you to construct and transform XML by using either PHP’s XML extensions or

(Frank Coyle) This is the last article in our series on Voice XML, so let’s wrap things up by expanding your thinking about how you can use voice as an enabler for your applications. When we look at the classic success stories of Voice XML (for example, the American Airlines flight service or 1.800.

(Dino Fancellu and Edmund Gimzewski) In a services-oriented architecture (SOA), a business process is implemented as a web service that programs (orchestrates in SOA terminology) other web services. An orchestrator web service is usually coded in a language outside the XML domain (e.g., Java), and i

(Dave Orchard) When can content be removed from a content model? The answer depends what we mean by “remove”. The first aspect is whether the content is completely removed or if the minimum and/or maximum number of occurences of the content is reduced though possibly still allowed. The second aspect