(Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr.) XML is a great data format—as evidenced by, among other things, an entire zone of IBM developerWorks that is dedicated to the subject. And more often that not in 2007, talking about XML means talking about Web services, or converting between XML and Java objects, or perhap

(Steven Berkovitz) While the ScriptManager and UpdatePanel found in Microsoft AJAX do a good job of persisting your pages scroll position during partial post back operations, you might be surprised to find out the same is not for scrollable child DIV’s contained within an UpdatePanel.

(Lara D’Abreo) DocBook is an OASIS standard for creating technical documentation in XML. The documentation from Spring or Hibernate is generated from DocBook. Particularly suited for computer-related content, DocBook is a set of XML tags, defined by a Document Type Definition (DTD) and XML schema fo

(Peter Mikhalenko) Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 1.0 made it easier for developers to manipulate XML content from Java applications. This is achieved by specifying a binding of a XML document to JavaBeans objects based on the XML document’s XSD schema. The binding is easy to use and natur

(Bipin Joshi) Tabbed dialogs come handy when you have too many controls on your web form. If all the controls are placed at once in front of the user the page may look cluttered. Instead you can logically group the controls using a tabbed user interface making it neat and easy to use. One way to dev

(Paula Gregorowicz) Much like in the music industry where there are so-called “overnight sensations” that toiled for years to create their success, web technology seems to sprout the “next big thing” out of nowhere. At least that is how it feels to me with the semantic web.

After creating an XML file, you can use it. One way you can do this is to display it in a grid-based window such as the DataGrid control. Another way you can display an XML file is in a browser. To do this, if you see the file in Windows Explorer, in My Computer, or in My Documents, you can […]

(Tony Patton) Improving the user experience is a critical aspect of all Web applications. The AJAX movement shares this goal as it uses existing technologies to reduce the number of roundtrips between the browser and the Web server. Microsoft recognized the power of AJAX early with the Atlas offerin

(Dino Esposito) Whether you’re a system administrator, a designer, or a developer, your job will be significantly affected by AJAX. Administrators have to ensure that the security bar is still high enough to face new types of possible attacks. Intranet administrators have to guarantee that JavaScrip

(Ben Nadel) Over the past few months, I have been learning a lot about XML and especially the use of XPath in ColdFusion. As a natural extension of that, I felt it was time to look into some ColdFusion XML Transformation stuff in the form of XSLT. I don’t know anything about it other than I looked a