Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Java web frameworks popular at the turn of the century are often slagged for their reliance on ...

Virtual filesystems can be made into writable virtual office documents. The old UNIX slogan “everything is a file” together with the xsltfs:// virtual filesystem allows for transparently editing ...

The Apache Jakarta site is home to many well-known Java open source projects, including Tomcat, Ant, and log4j. A lesser-known subproject of Jakarta is Jakarta Commons, a repository of reusable Java ...

The Session Façade design pattern is popular for developing enterprise applications based on J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition). It not only enforces reusable application architecture design ...

This is a bit loaded question as if you're looking at this page, it's rendered from (X)HTML = XML. But what I am interested in (for a talk / research topic) is if people are still choosing (directly ...

One problem that has plagued XML development is the complexity of parsing and using XML. Everybody knows the advantages of using XML, but I doubt many people are able to write a piece of code that ...

With the ongoing rapid increase in both volume and diversity of 'omic' data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and others), the development and adoption of data standards is of paramount ...