REST, XForms, XQuery, and “skimming”

June 15th, 2007

Interesting concept: REST, XForms, XQuery, and “skimming” –
Pattern of holding data on the server in a native XML database, and offloading all translation and processing to the client. Read the rest of this entry »

Introduction to HttpUnit

June 13th, 2007

In today’s application development environment it is standard practice to build unit tests for each object being developed. Unit testing is increasingly more and more popular in Java due to the many open-source unit testing frameworks available. However, this type of testing becomes more difficult when the application is Web based or contains EJBs because of the dependency on application servers, servlet containers and EJB containers. Read the rest of this entry »

Useful Resources in WSDL Design for Complex Payloads

June 7th, 2007

Some useful articles and best practices information for WSDL design in systems with complex XML schemas. Read the rest of this entry »

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