JavaTM and XML (Second Edition)

Author: Maclaurin
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: For some time now, XML has become a hot topic among Internet developers. But how can one gain a deep understanding of XML and make it work? This book demonstrates how to use XML APIs, tools, and various techniques to build real-world applications, with the requirement that all the code and data are truly portable. Java provides a platform-independent language for programming, leading to a revolution in the programming world. XML provides a platform-independent language for data exchange, taking this revolution further. For building Web-based enterprise applications, Java and XML share many similar characteristics, such as platform independence, scalability, reusability, and support for the global language (Unicode). This book shows how to combine the two to build dynamically generated content Web sites, how to write enterprise-level software for information sharing and data exchange with lower overhead, and how to develop simple and efficient solutions for other problems that require portable data. This book covers the following topics:
· XML fundamentals, including DTD, namespaces, XML Schema, XPath, and XSL;
· SAX API, including all processing classes, SAX2 extensions, filters, and writers;
· DOM API, including DOM Level 3 and the DOM HTML module;
· JDOM API, including the core API and XPath support;
· Data binding, using DTD and XML Schema as constraints;
· Developing applications using XML-RPC and SOAP;
· Using Web publishing frameworks, such as Apache Cocoon;
· Creating Web services using SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL;
· Building information channels and dynamic content using RSS and XSP.