by Stefano Mazzocchi – It took two years and three different project leaders to finish Cocoon 2.0 but we made it. It's an XML framework that raises the usage of XML and XSLT technologies for server applications to a new level. Designed for performance and scalability around pipelined SAX process
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Listen Software Solutions’ “How To” Series: Normalization
By David Nishimoto – Following the normalization guidelines usually means splitting tables into two or more tables with fewer columns. Primary and foreign key relationships are designed into the new smaller tables, so they can be reconnected with a join operation. The advantage of splitting the tabl
Stepping Up to Java 2, Enterprise Edition
By Joe McKee – Client-side Java (Java Standard Edition) never became the software that rendered operat-ing systems obsolete, but Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.3has delivered an improved devel-opment solution for structuring large and complex server-based application development.
SAML Brings Security to XML
by Edmund X. DeJesus – Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML) is a new standard that uses XML to encode authentication and authorization information. That information can then be moved between systems within an organization, or between organizations in a transaction. Because its basis is XML, SA
AxPoint: Generate PDF slideshows from XML source
Matt Sergeant has announced the upload to CPAN of XML::Handler::AxPoint, a Perl module for generating Powerpoint-like presentations/slideshows from XML documents.
XML Origin Editor
XML Origin Editor is an XML development environment for Windows that also handles Extensible Style Language Transformations (XSLT) authoring, including a provision for an XSLT debugger.
Top 10 database security headaches
By Jan Stafford – To say that database security managers have to be masters of multitasking is a huge understatement. While their daily to-do lists are large and varied enough to give anyone a headache, some parts of the job cause more headaches than others.
A stored procedure to send email
(Eli Leiba) Here is a stored procedure to send an email message using Oracle’s utl_smtp package. I tested this on Oracle 8.1.7 running on HP UX 10.20 system, with the Exchange server is installed on an NT 4 SP6 machine. (R)
Sun ships Java tools for Web services
By Wylie Wong – Sun executives said that the company has released a starter kit, which features a tutorial and development tools. The kit will allow software developers to use the Java language to begin building and running Web services, which allow software to be delivered over the Internet to PCs,
Apache XML project releases Xerces 2.0.0
Xerces 2 for Java, the Apache XML Project's second generation XML parser, has now finished its beta phase and is considered production quality.