Jonathan Bruce

The rise in prominence of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) has triggered a storm of debates on how best to build enterprise SOA-based applications and establish a predominant industry position. In the meantime, the W3C XQuery language is accelerating toward "Recommendation" status; although comparatively little time has been spent debating XQuery-s role in SOA, I expect that its rising prominence will soon capture the attention of many Java developers seeking to build enterprise SOA-based applications. The W3C XQuery specification provides a native XML query language that integration platforms and components can use to aggregate data under the unifying umbrella of XML. XQuery levels the data integration playing field by providing a single interface that lets develope... (more)

JDBC – The Indispensable Component of Persistence Mechanisms

Few serious database applications are considered enterprise-worthy without a core database engine backed by a normalized and optimized relational database architecture. Traditionally, such database applications rely on SQL statements to retrieve and update data in the back-end data source. This well-established model continues to have strategic importance and is the basis for the continue... (more)