On Jan. 23, 2007 the W3C granted Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. XQuery allows you to work in one common ...

The latest enterprise relational database management systems (RDBMSes) from market leaders IBM Corp., Microsoft and Oracle Corp. all boast improved XML-handling capabilities. XML figured prominently ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. As developers migrate their old Java Persistence API applications to JPA 3, their progress is ...

At its professional Developers Conference this week, Microsoft Corp. quietly revealed an updated version of its SQLXML Web release add-on for the SQL Server 2000 database. All of the major database ...

I want to convert the database definition of an existing SQL database into an XML schema, so I can use the schema with some model-driven development tools to create a new distributed application that ...

Is XML an unstoppable tidal wave? Like most things, that depends on who you talk to. Ted Friedman, a principal analyst who covers database and business intelligence technologies at Gartner, says it’s ...

Customers say they want them, vendors are scrambling to provide them, and opinions vary as to how to set them up correctly. They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. There’s a recent article on TheServerSide that hopefully reminded Hibernate and JPA developers ...

I assume you are already aware of annotations and generics, which were introduced in Java with J2SE 5.0. JDBC 4.0 introduces annotations and the generic DataSet. This change aims to simplify execution ...