Xquery

DataDirect created a suite of tools to replace this complexity with a single XML layer capable of accessing data in a wide variety of formats. This work evolved into the XML Integration Suite that consists of the XQuery engine, XML Converters, and the Stylus Studio IDE. The latest update provides a number of significant upgrades designed to support more formats, and simplify More...

service bus and the BEA AquaLogic service bus."

He noted that the AquaLogic ESB has "a number of elegant features" including high performance transport, support for stateless routing, and transformations using XQuery allowing document streaming for faster processing without requiring the reading of the entire XML coding.

The Oracle ESB has complementary rather than More...

the purchase of Systinet.

"The Systinet repository is a RESTful repository," she said. "Everything in the repository can be accessed using a URL driven from the browser. You can publish through AtomPub and you can create an XQuery that generates a report. That report can be published through AtomPub. It can be put into a browser. It can go anywhere."

But in the end it seems to come down to the price More...

adoption although, even then, I would argue it remains focused on individuals projects rather than enterprise-wide. "

2. Don't forget the data

The year started with good news on the data integration front when the XQuery specification finally gained W3C ratification. REST was also picked as potential ally in creating a data services layer.

In fact, analysts urged users to apply More...

a more efficient way to handle the XML processing, Subramaniam said, he had a brainstorm one day while talking about the problem with a colleague.

"I realized the XML architecture is fairly rich these days," he said. "You have XQuery. You have XML security, XML Schema. So why not process XML as XML. The reason most people don't do that is because XML processing can be very CPU and memory intensive More...

This is the first working draft of the XML Query Language, XQuery, by the W3C's XML Query Working Group More...

Kurt Cagle digs into the functionality behind XQuery 1.0 and sees a big future for using it in combination with REST More...

In conjunction with the W3C final approval of XQuery this week, Ipedo Inc., an enterprise information integration software vendor, announced upgrades to XQuery Views in its Ipedo XIP product. Among the upgrades are capabilities for publishing XQuery Views as Web More...

In their top 10 XML and XQuery predictions for 2005, DataDirect Technologies anticipates 2005 to be the year for XQuery, a language for querying and creating XML documents. Moving closer to standardization by the W3C, XQuery will have a great More...

XQuery, .NET, open source applications in production, enterprise-caliber commodity hardware and compliance-driven infrastructure investments will be the IT projects going "production grade" in 2005 More...