by Aleksander Slominski, Stefan Haustein – We are very happy to see that XML pull parsing is gradually gaining more attention. We are also happy to see an article about XmlPull API published on XML.com, as it will expose this approach to a wide audience of Java and XML developers.
Other News
SQL Server Achieves World Record Benchmarks
Read about record-breaking performance results for SQL Server 7.0 Enterprise Edition and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. Benchmark records include Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), TPC-H, SAP R/3 Sales and Distribution, SAP Retail, and PeopleSoft HRMS.
Simplify Mobile Development with CE
By Brian Moran – Last week, Microsoft announced availability of SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition 2.0. The new release includes several upgrades, but the most important change will make building applications for mibile devices easier.
JDOM and XML Parsing, Part 1
By Jason Hunter – Chances are, you’ve probably used one of a number of Java libraries to manipulate XML data structures in the past. So what’s the point of JDOM (Java Document Object Model), and why do developers need it?
Oracle 8i Row Chaining and Migration
Though a number of factors can contribute to performance degradation in your databases, many performance issues can be prevented by properly designing and/or diagnosing the databases. As Gaurav Sharan Gupta discusses in his first article for DBAsupport, proper diagnosis of Row Migration (RM) and Row
Transform data into Web applications with Cocoon
By Lajos Moczar – If you’ve read about Apache Cocoon or started dabbling with it, you might be wondering about the best approach for implementing your custom Java logic into it. This article will get you coding with XSPs (Extensible Server Pages) and actions. Lajos Moczar walks you through a few exa
Introduction to Xindice
By Arun Gaikwad – This article is an introduction to an Open Source Native XML Database System, called Xindice (pronounced zeen-dea-chay). It is also an introduction to Native XML Database concepts.
JAXB or W3C XML Schema “a la carte”?
Sun has released version 0.7 of their JAXB (Java Architecture for XML Binding) specification introducing a partial -and controversial- support for W3C XML Schema.
Gigabit Ethernet Direct Connect Networking
by Joe Chang – If you need to direct connect two gigabit cards, as you might want to do in a SQL Server cluster, here’s how to do it.
Migrating from Oracle to SQL Server
By Vyas Kondreddi – In Microsoft public newsgroups, I’ve been observing a recent increase in the number of questions that deal with migrating from Oracle to SQL Server. It is not an easy task to migrate your Oracle database and applications to SQL Server, as there are major architectural differences