(Anthony Hart) The technique to which I refer is called “Object Serialization”. Object Serialization is a process through which an object’s state is transformed into some serial data format, such as XML or a binary format, in order to be stored for some later use. In other words, the object is “dehy

Gartner analyst Ray Valdes recommends orgs focus on usability and usercentric design from the start of any AJAX project. It’s not about using shiny new tech for the sake of it, he says. Using AJAXto improve the user experience is how you’ll create real business benefit, Valdes told Senior Editor Kat

(Arulazi Dhesiaseelan) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is another strategic milestone in the enterprise architecture world. Many enterprises fuel the myth that surmount the today’s SOA mantra. Is it real or hypothetic? Are CTOs and CIOs responsible for this hype? The questions remain unanswered.

(Naveen Karamchetti) During the development of complex maps using the BizTalk Mapper tool, one encounters several situations where custom mapping would be required in order to complete a transformation. This article will explain how to perform custom XSLT transformations using the BizTalk Mapper too

(Ivan Pedruzzi) Jonathan Robie is one of the inventors of XQuery. He’s been involved with the XML Query Working Group since the beginning, and has been an editor since the first documents were published by the W3C. Jonathan is the XQuery Technology Lead for DataDirect XQuery, a high-performance, emb

(Yuqing Wu, Jignesh M. Patel and H. V. Jagadish) Structural join operations are central to evaluating queries against XML data, and are typically responsible for consuming a lion’s share of the query processing time. Thus, structural join order selection is at the heart of query optimization in an

(Peter Brittenham, Glen Daniels, Doug Davis, Paul Fremantle, Steve Graham, Dieter Koenig, Yuichi Nakamura, Simeon Simeonov and Claudia Zentner) The Web services Architecture group at the W3C has defined a Web service as follows (italics added): A Web service is a software system designed to suppo

(Coach K. Wei) Gmail, GoogleSuggest, and GoogleMap opened the eyes for millions of netizens to a “new” Web: a smarter, more responsive, and more interactive Web that does not employ a foolhardy “click, wait, and refresh” approach. For the first time, the vast majority realize the Web can be much bet

(Adam Delves) In the first part of this series, we took a look at how PHP 5 can be used to manipulate and parse XML files. In this installment, we are going to focus on Ajax, one of the most useful and topical applications of XML.

A new tutorial entitled Building XML Workflow Applications, written by XML industry guru, Dr. Michael Kay — founder of Saxonica, the producer of the Saxon XQuery and XSLT processor — was announced today by Stylus Studio (http://www.stylusstudio.com), the industry-leading provider of XML development