| XML Aware Networking |
| Eugene Kuznetsov | August 2002 |
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| XML accelerators are network devices that aim to speed up either the flow or the processing of XML messages. XML processing performance can be a barrier to adoption of XML technologies for business-critical applications. An XML accelerator has the ability to offload one or more resource-intensive XML processing functions onto purpose-built hardware. For example, bottlenecks associated with XML parsing and XSLT are a frequent and well-known problem. XML accelerators can perform security processing or XSLT transformations outside the main processes of your web site. |
| XML Accelerators |
| The following link from network world describes several such accelerators coming into the market place. |
| Who is Using Tomcat or Jetty in Production? |
| SlashDot | August 20th, 2002 |
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| A great conversation about Tomcat and Jetty. Well worth a few moments to scan to see what other developers like and don't like about these JSP/Servlet Containers. |
| Yes, You Can Secure Your Web Services Documents, Part 1 |
| Ray Djajadinata | August 23rd, 2002 |
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| This is a review on how to use XML encryption within an XML document. |
| Skills Survey: What Do You Need to Know? |
| Tim Haight, Pamela Olheiser | August 20th, 2002 |
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| A very informal survey of Jobs showing JSP, J2EE, XML and EJB to be in high demand. |
| Java Allows Sybase and XQL Integration |
| Edward G. Muesch | August 23rd, 2002 |
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| A quick article showing how to use XQL within a Sybase Java application. While not an earth shattering article. I include it with a question which it raised: "How many people are using XQL?" I am more curious and if you are using XQL I would like to hear a little more at JSPBuzz@jspinsider.com. |
| Web Services Pushing JVMs into a New Age |
| Robert McMillan | September 2nd, 2002 |
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| The emerging use of Web services could drive some significant changes in the way Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) work, says Robert Berry, a distinguished engineer from IBM's Hursley Park Java Technology Center. |
| Moving Beyond StreamTokenizer and StringTokenizer for Pattern Matching |
| John Zukowski | August 2002 |
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| While previous versions of the Java language supported pattern matching, the StreamTokenizer and StringTokenizer classes barely scratched the surface of what you can do with patterns. The Java 1.4 (and now 1.4.1) release contains support for pattern matching with regular expressions in the java.util.regex package. In this installment of Magic with Merlin, John Zukowski shows you how to parse sequences of characters with the new regular expression library to add power to your search patterns. |
| Cartoon Turtle Enlisted for Web Safety Campaign |
| Globetechnology | August 29th, 2002 |
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| This is just too strange. These days the concern is Internet safety and security, and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is turning to a new messenger - a savvy little turtle named "Dewie" with a hardened shell that won't get crushed on the Information Superhighway. Ummm excuse me, but I have seen turtles on highways before and they kind of do get squished by traffic. How about using some virus or other really tough super resistant bug as a symbol? I mean you can't squash a virus... Wait that wouldn't work very well with the kids. Oh well on road kill symbols. |
| Combining XML and Databases |
| Roy C. Hoobler | August 29th, 2002 |
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| XML has evolved into a viable alternative for representing data. As more applications use XML, the big question becomes how to combine XML with relational databases. This is a very brief look at XML and database interaction. |
| The XMLPULL API |
| Elliotte Rusty Harold | August 14th, 2002 |
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| A very important trend of XML parsing is the pull model of parsing. Basically this means the program indicates to the parser when it wants the next piece of information to be parsed. Or the program pulls in the data as it is being parse. This is unlike SAX which is a push model, SAX pushes all the parsed data into your program and you have no choice in the timing of the data flow. XML pull is a fast, simple, and memory-thrifty means of loading data from an XML document. However, it is still new and being developed by the community. This is a great introduction to XML pull. |
| Homeland Insecurity |
| Charles C. Mann | September 2002 |
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| Just a great article to read on security or the lack there of. |