(Gaidar Magdanurov) A common task for a developer working for a large business is to build and connect applications that process data. The data could be generated by an application which was working in a production environment for years and sometimes it is really difficult to connect one application

(Brett McLaughlin) In previous articles in this series, you’ve examined the concepts involved in Document Object Model (DOM) programming — how the Web browser views a Web page as a tree — and you should now understand the programming structures used in the DOM. In this article, you put all of this

(Vincent DUVERNET) Looking up on Google about XML serialization would give us many links about problems, questions, and other things about it. But nowhere, did I find an article that has it all. So if you are looking at how to serialize hashtables, GDI objects (GraphicsPath, Fonts…), etc., read on

(Robert D. Kugel) Master data management (MDM) and eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) are two key technologies that promise to address important information management issues. Ventana Research believes both will enable companies to reduce the cost, time and effort needed to collect, analy

(Jack D. Herrington) A couple of years ago, many developers bet their futures on XML, XSLT, Extensible HTML (XHTML), and a host of tag-based “X” languages. Now, the new rage is Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), and investors’ eyes are turning toward data-driven Rich Internet Applications that

(Wim Martens and Joachim Niehren) Automata for unranked trees form a foundation for XML schemas, querying and pattern languages. We study the problem of efficiently minimizing such automata. First, we study unranked tree automata that are standard in database theory, assuming bottom-up determinism

Organizations developing and deploying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) often face a myriad of problems: cost, complexity, security concerns and performance. Learn how to offload XML processing overhead of Web services and SOA from application platforms and software middleware to the network allo

(Edmond Woychowsky) I’ve made no secret that a former manager described me as the guy that does “mad scientist stuff”, and that he used a word other than stuff. This statement does a lot to explain my love of tinkering will all aspects of application development. Often my creations are nothing speci

(Louis E Mauget) This tutorial on information modeling is the second in a series of five tutorials that can help you prepare for the IBM™ certification Test 142, XML and Related Technologies. This tutorial analyzes XML data, contrasts narrative documents with record-like documents, and models a smal

Microsoft announced today that Atlas, its popular tool for working with Ajax and ASP.NET technology, has been renamed. The newly named product will also ship by the end of the year and will work with Visual Studio 2005. (R)