(Barbara White) RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is the talk around the net these days because of its many benefits. However many people are not really clear exactly what RSS is?

(Greg Brown) JavaScript is not generally considered a robust programming language, especially when compared to languages such as Java or C#: it is interpreted, rather than compiled; it is dynamically, rather than statically, typed; and it is commonly considered a procedural, rather than an object-or

(Ray Rischpater) The last five years has seen a revolution in mobile application development as carriers around the globe have embraced developers in an effort to raise the average revenue per subscriber (ARPU). It’s an exciting fact that, as developers, we can now tap carriers to distribute mobile

(Sanjit Sil) The DataSet class in .NET plays a major role by providing a disconnected data access model. There are situations when we might not require a database to store data. Rather, we may store the data in an XML file. Microsoft .NET provides support for designing such applications with the

(Robert Cozzi, Jr.) In the current release of OS/400 (V5R4 as of this writing), IBM introduced XML parsing (reading XML data) in RPG IV. But it’s up to the RPG programmer to create XML. However, there are rumors that IBM may introduce XML creation in RPG IV with the next release of the operating

(John Charles) Web services standardization started with the submission of the SOAP 1.1 specification to the W3C. Later, SOAP with Attachments, and WSDL were submitted to W3C. The adoption and use of the Web services specifications (SOAP and WSDL) have grown for the addition of extended specificatio

(William Brogden) The idea that there should be a way to turn a Java object into an XML representation and back again to an object has been pursued by a number of people. As a result of all this developer activity many different approaches exist. (R)

(stewartamackenzie) With many applications, the SQL database doesn’t only hold the business data. There is a good chance that the sys.messages table holds custom messages for the application and that another table may be used for application wide defaults. These repositories for messages, defa

(Jack D. Herrington) Discover three Ajax data transport mechanisms (XMLHttp, script tags, and frames or iframes) and their relative strengths and weaknesses. This tutorial provides code for both the server side and the client side and explains it in detail to provide the techniques you need to put e

(Obi Ezechukwu) The Obix Framework is an XML and Java configuration framework that provides developers with the ability to easily and quickly develop configurable software applications. This tutorial is a quick and short introduction to the framework, which demonstrates how to develop configurable J