recent meetings
05/28/10: Rod Johnson's Spring talk
04/06/10: Jason van Zyl's "Next Generation Maven Development Stack"
03/03/10: "Boost Your Hibernate and Application Performance" by Greg Luck
01/26/10: "Scaling the Cloud" by Kirk Spadt
12/02/09: "Character Sets, Encodings, Java and Other Headaches" by Brian Clapper
"XML and the Java JAXP API" by Dr. John Lewis
Sponsored by iMedium
Abstract
XML, the Extensible Markup Language, will be a primary player in web-based software development in the near future. It gives us the ability to define the meaning of our web site content, rather than simply describe how we want that content displayed. It provides structure for our information such that it can be managed easily under program control. To fully embrace XML, however, we must also embrace several complimentary technologies (e.g., DTD, XSL, DOM). Java will continue to evolve its role as a web-based language in an XML world. The new JAXP API provides mechanisms for Java software to interact with XML information. This talk will give an overview of XML, its complimentary technologies, and the JAXP API.
Speaker Bio
John Lewis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences at Villanova University. His textbook, Java Software Solutions: Foundations of Program Design, is used at hundreds of colleges and universities around the world to teach introductory object-oriented programming. His specialty area is Software Engineering with an emphasis on web-based software technologies.
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