When XML came along five years ago, promising to rewrite the rules of data management, vendors of relational databases took note, but they didn’t panic. They’d already seen this movie a decade before, ...

The services that comprise distributed applications must communicate with one another to exchange data or information. You need a common data format for these communications, which narrows the options ...

While many development conferences feature introductory sessions on various topics, more advanced tutorials are comparatively rare. Going beyond the many "hello world" presentations out there, expert ...