I have previously blogged on several utilitarian tools that are provided with the Java SE 6 HotSpot SDK such as jstack, javap, and so forth. I focus on another tool ...

XML has two main advantages: first, it offers a standard way of structuring data, and, second, we can specify the vocabulary the data uses. We can define the vocabulary (what elements and attributes ...

When Excelon Corp. disclosed plans for its Extensible Information Server (XIS) XML database to support Oracle 9i, the company's Coco Jaenicke was often asked an important question: Why would one ...

Extensible Markup Language (XML) has evolved considerably in its short five-year history. It started out as a simple way to mark up data and relied on seasoned technologies for data validation, such ...