XPath expressions are much easier to write than detailed Document Object Model navigation code. When you need to extract information from an XML document, the quickest and simplest way is to embed an XPath expression inside your Java program. Discover the javax.xml.xpath package, an XML object-model independent library for querying documents with XPath.

This purpose of this post is only to provide a jump start in setting up a Maven environment and start working with Jersey . I will try to provide a detailed version later when time permits. The existing tutorials are outdated to some extent due to refactoring. Hence I hope this post is useful for developers beginning to use Jersey.

Developer: Wow the JavaScript interpreter on Firefox 3 is awesome, but the one on the new Safari is even better. It is a great time to be a JavaScript developer! Me: It is still a lot slower than ActionScript.

Writing API for XML (WAX) is a free, open-source library for writing XML documents. Created because of an OutOfMemoryError while trying to output a large XML document. (Bonus: wacky intro video)

This article mentions about few small idiosyncrasies which one has to face while working with XML APIs. Describes few sample scenario of usage of DOM and Transformer classes

How to use XStream for marshalling including annotations and custom converters.

Discover Jaxer, the first true Asynchronous JavaScript + XML server. Jaxer makes it possible to execute JavaScript code, Document Object Model, and HTML on the server side as well as giving you the ability to access server-side functions asynchronously from the client side. This article describes the features of Jaxer and shows the great potential that Jaxer has to offer.

Spring web services a product of spring community, helps in developing web services using contract first web services and helps in manipulating the xml in many ways. In this tutorial I am about to show a step by step guide in developing spring web services using JAXB as mashalling technology.

The PHP Presentation System hosts over three hundred presentations, covering a slew of different topics including performance, testing, debugging, XML, and security. The presentations are from speakers at a variety of conferences. You will see (and hear if interested) presentations from speakers like Derick Rethans, Tobias Schlitt, Rasmus Lerdorf and many many more. These presentations have been at conferences all around the world and contain a great deal of information.

XAML, Microsoft's eXtensible Application Markup Language, was released with the .NET 3.0 framework and works with the new technologies available in the framework, such as WPF, WCF, Windows CardSpace, and WF.

Many applications write log files to get some information about what the application is doing. Especially applications without a user interface use log files, like for example Windows Services or Web Applications. These log files are plain text files normally.

nillable="true" and minOccurs="0" is really confusing terms in XML Schema. Here is a simple explanation of what it actually means.

Some developers view AJAX as the silver bullet for every scenario. However, AJAX introduces its own set of hazards in various areas, which include: development time, browsing history and experience, search engine interaction, accessibility, server load, and security. Let’s take a closer look at each of these 6 areas.

A short screencasts on how to do XML Data Manipulation with XLinq

JAXB simplifies the use of XML data in Java applications by shielding you and your code from the low-level details of working with XML. Essentially, JAXB allows you to move easily back-and-forth between XML and Java. A JAXB implementation supplies a schema compiler, which takes in an XML schema and generates Java classes which map to that schema. Data from XML documents which are instances of the schema can be bound automatically to the generated classes by JAXB's binding runtime framework

SubSonic is a .NET ORM (object relational mapping) tool with plenty of extras. In the ORM market, it can be compared to other tool such as Linq and NHibernate. I chose SubSonic over NHibernate, because of the ease of configuration or Linq, because I am still programming for .NET 2.0. That being said, there are three different ways to generate your data access layer using SubSonic

If you are doing Ajax development, there is one library you need to know: Direct Web Remoting (DWR). This library leverages the Java language and Java Web technologies to simplify Ajax development. It has set the standard for how to integrate Ajax seamlessly into a Java web application. In this article, see just how easy Ajax can be using DWR.

I have been using AppFuse 2.0 to create some applications that read from legacy databases. Under AppFuse’s standard configuration, you can populate the development application with sample data by adding data to the sample-data.xml file located in the src\test\resources directory. In my case, I have several data tables that contain appropriate sample data, so my real chore has how to easily get a subset of that data into the sample-data.xml file.

Jeff Atwood once wondered what's the point of alternative markup languages; this is the answer.

Write efficient XML processing applications more easily using the XML Enhancements for Java (XJ) framework. XJ includes a set of extensions to Java 1.4 that integrate support for XML, XML Schema, and XPath 1.0 into the language. Also, discover the advantages of XJ over existing mechanisms for the XML development.

How to load an XML file in the classpath if it is not in the classes folder..

Last few days, while working on grails tutorials, I needed to translate some Grails domain objects to XML. I thought it should not be so hard as there is lot of articles about Groovy and XML. But what I found out is that most of the articles present only the simple usage of Groovy XmlSlurper. One of the examples would be:

I had a chance to do some XML crunching lately. I used a design pattern for this purpose which is both efficient and elegant. I'm not sure who thought of this first, so I won't name it after myself (:-), but it's well worth writing about it.

Grails uses XPath in its XML converter, which requires additional processing in the Flex / ActionScript world. This post introduces a very simple solution that converts XML references into non-reference nodes.

This article describes how to serialize an object to XML and deserialize an object from XML in C#. This method is useful for persisting the state of an object and it is also useful for cloning an object by de-serializing the XML back to a new object.