In the early days of using Java in conjunction with XML, it often seemed more difficult than it should be to use the Java programming language with the XML markup language. Besides the non-trivial and ...

Ant has been widely celebrated as the future of build processing. In fact, it represents a great improvement over previous make tools: it is extendible, multiplatform, and standard-based. Some Ant ...

Have you ever played the “spot the development platform” game? In my version of it, points are awarded to players who correctly guess what programming language an application is written in, simply by ...

The Web was originally intended to make content easily accessible. Today, Web developers focus on style and marketing, but the need to put together content-driven Web sites quickly and easily remains ...

XML acceleration is emerging as a critical technology to offload XML processing from applications, especially in the form of hardware-based appliances. Along with processing XML data, XML acceleration ...