I recently helped Khanderao Kand, one of Oracle's Fusion Middleware lead architects, co-author an article on the current state of OSGi. Here's an excerpt - ....The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) Alliance is working to realize the vision of a... More info

Learn to use XML and XSL in your Java projects to help designers and programmers co-exist on the same project. More info

Is JSON better than XForms? That's an apples and oranges argument. I am willing to predict that XForms + XQuery will become a powerful enterprise model for rich form content, because the enterprise is considerably more XML-centric than the consumer stack is. I'm willing to predict that JSON feeds to most mashups will likely end up being a mix of XML (primarily via feeds) and JSON for quite some time, though I'm inclined to suspect that AtomPub will likely tilt the balance of power towards XML in the long run. More info

So for various reasons I've had the opportunity to get to know a lot of the folks who design, develop, deploy, market, and support the various offerings of Amazon Web Services, and it's because of this I found it funny... More info

Presenting current and emerging state-of-the-art XML-based solutions to the interoperability puzzle, such as SOAP, BizTalk and the BizTalk Server, this presentation will show how these XML technologies can be used to solve real-world integration and interchange challenges. More info

Convert your stored procedures to Web services in SQLXML with instruction from this SQL Server Magazine article by Rich Rollman. More info

This article discusses how component technology evolved and how eXtensible Markup Language (XML) will become widely used as a way for software components to interoperate, in essence acting as a gateway between autonomous, heterogeneous systems. More info

In the first part of a two-part series on indexing XML data, Oleg Tkachenko examines indexing of standalone XML documents, a native XML concept of IDs, XSLT keys, and introduces IndexingXPathNavigator class. More info

To fully understand XML namespaces, you must know what a namespace is, how namespaces are defined, and how they are used. This article is dedicated to answering these three questions. More info

Learn why XML brings us one step closer to universal data access. More info