Part 1 presents the case for using XML in application development for the purpose of making the application development process simple, cheap, portable, and of high quality. XML programming will bring about the same kind of radical shift in an application development paradigm in this decade as object methodologies did in the last decade.
Part 2 concentrates on the role of the database. Here the focus is both on both DB2 9 (origianlly codenamed Viper), and Viper 2 functionality. You'll learn:
Part 3 focuses on the client, bringing into picture the XML technologies used in the Web browsers and Web server: Ajax, XSLT, SVG, Comet, feeds, and mashups. You'll learn how feeds and Web services are generated in the database, queried and combined in the application layer, and then presented in the client browsers.
Part 4 The fourth article brings together all these technologies and shows a real life working example.
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