Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
In Does SOA threaten developer jobs?, much is said about supposed concerns that developers now have over SOA adoption.
So, one might surmise that Jacquard Loom developers once felt insecure about the goings on in assembler and C development, and that C developers once lost sleep over OO and Java development.
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
XML processing in hardware to boil down an XML doc for simpler binding to objects:
http://tinyurl.com/2syl99
Most importantly:
“We use an object binding framework,” he explained. “We use XSLT to
transform it in hardware. So when the XML comes in, all the validation,
all the business rules that are applied to it, all the transformations are
done, so we get a clean XML that is exactly fitting the object that we
want. So we can make one Java call, say un-marshal, and we have the
object, lo and behold. We don’t have compiled classes. We have no mapping. Nothing.”
Friday, 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.
See: REST, XForms, XQuery, and “skimming”
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