Java has become the programming language of choice for interacting with the Internet and for building distributed, intelligent applications. XML is about to become the universal language for delivering content and machine processable business information. This book will introduce you to the power of using Java and XML as a unified platform. Professional Java XML covers the full scope of both Java and XML. We develop applications with the Java Enterprise platform and its array of sophisticated components and programming interfaces. Similarly, we explore a full range of XML techniques such as XSL transformation, querying with XPath, and validation with XML Schema and DTD, Using state-of-the-art Java XML tools. This book brings together the enabling technologies of Java and XML, and shows you how to develop applications that exploit the best features of each.
Sudhir Ancha is Senior Software Engineer at Nextel Telecommunications. Prior to working at Nextel, he worked at MCI WorldCom Telecommunications and Learning Byte International. He has worked on various Telecom Projects and also developed Training applications using Java and XML. His areas of interest include Security, Improving Performance, Distributed Computing and different Internet Technologies. In his free time, he also maintains this site JavaCommerce.com.
Andrei Cioroianu is the founder of Devsphere.com, where he builds Java development tools and offers consulting services. His projects range from applets and desktop applications to servlets and server side frameworks. He has also written articles for Java Developer's Journal.
Jay Cousins is an Analyst/Consultant at RivCom, a consultancy specializing in helping businesses adopt XML technologies for the creation, management, and distribution of information. Jay specializes in information analysis and modeling with a focus on DTD and schema development and the mapping of data structures. Jay has written and developed training materials on XML integration and also for the introduction and use of business models within an organization. He is currently involved in the application and development of NewsML and XML based applications for clients in the UK and USA, the application of Topic Maps, and the use of PRISM metadata. Other interests include information design, the application of the Topic Map paradigm to knowledge management, the Semantic Web, language and communication, and the economics of information. Jay has a M.Sc. (Distinction) in Analysis, Design, and Management of Information Systems from the London School of Economics, and a BA (First Class Honors) in English with Comparative Literature from the University of East Anglia.
Jeremy Michael Crosbie received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Irvine. He is a Senior Software Engineer with go2 Systems, Inc., a provider of real-world location-sensitive services through your mobile device, where he manages the middle-tier development group as well as designing and developing applications. In past lives, Jeremy has worked in the storage and large-scale server industries.
John Davies is the Technical Director of Century 24 Solutions Ltd.C24's latest product, Elektra, designed to provide a single business view of complex financial transactions makes extensive use of distributed Java technologies, XML and Java3D. John started in IT in the late 70s in hardware, this followed on with 8080 and Z80 assembler, C, C++ in '87 and finally Java in early '96. He spent over fourteen years as a Consultant, ten of them abroad in a variety of countries including the US, Asia and most of Europe where he learnt a few more languages (spoken). Between work and writing John teaches Java, EJB and XML for Learning Tree.
Kyle Gabhart has recently been hired by Brainbench as a Senior Software engineer. Kyle's been involved in web development a little over a year now and has been immersing in Java for most of that time. He's developed and taught a "Fast-Track to Java" course for Oracle DBA's, taught a two-week boot camp for TXU Electric, as well as giving several presentations for a local Java Users Group. His non-technical speaking experience is even more extensive, completing nationally in both debate and public speaking for three years in high school and two and a half in college.
Steven Gould started "playing" with computers 20 years ago, according to his parents. Little did they know, rather than spending much time playing games, he was more interested in finding out how they worked. He spent numerous hours locked away learning the in-and-outs of his early computers, learning BASIC, 6502 assembly language, Z80 assembly language and Pascal. Steven's hobby led him to pursue his degrees in Computer Science (BSc) and Management Science and Operations Research (MSc). Steven's unique combination of Operations Research (OR) and Computer Science strategically positioned him in the IT marketplace. After working for Dash Associates in England, he moved to the States in 1993 to pursue his career "the other side of the pond". Steven utilized his skills in OR and Computer Science in his first few years in the United States, first as Vice President of Software Development for a start-up optimization company in Knoxville, Tennessee, then at SABRE in Fort Worth, Texas. Since leaving SABRE, he has focused his efforts on object-oriented design and development in particular using C++ and Java. These have been his fortes in recent years as an Executive Consultant for CGI Information Systems based out of the Dallas, Texas office.
Ramnivas Laddad is a Sun-certified architect of Java technology. He has a master's in electrical engineering with a specialization in communication engineering. He has been developing software systems involving GUI, networking, distributed systems, real-time systems, and modeling for the past eight years. He has architected and developed object-oriented software systems in Java for the last four years and in C++ for the last eight years. Working with cool new technologies is his favorite pastime. Ramnivas lives and works in Silicon Valley, USA. He is a Principal Software Engineer at Real-Time Innovations, Inc, where he leads the development of ControlShell, a component-based programming framework for complex real-time systems.
Sing Li is an active author, consultant, and entrepreneur. He has written for popular technical journals and is the creator of the "Internet Global Phone", one of the very first Internet phones available. His wide-ranging consulting expertise spans Internet and Intranet systems design, distributed architectures, digital convergence, embedded systems, real-time technologies, and cross platform software design. He is also an active participant in the Jini community.
Brendan Macmillan holds Honors degrees and has won prizes in both Computer Science and Law; and also completed a Masters thesis on "Analysis of Melody". He represented Australia in the 1993 World Championships Skeleton Competition at the La Plagne bobsled track, France. He is a great believer in open source software development, as both effective and exhilarating. Presently, he is a PhD candidate at the prestigious School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University.
Daniel Rivers-Moore is Director of New Technologies at RivCom, a UK-based consultancy specializing in helping companies and organizations adopt leading-edge technologies for information management and delivery. Daniel was actively involved from the outset in the development of XML and its related technologies, having been an invited expert to the XML Special Interest Group that assisted the World Wide Web's XML Working Group during the development of the core XML standard. He has served as Joint Project Leader of the STEP/SGML Harmonization Initiative for bringing together technical documents with engineering data, and is an editor of NewsML, the XML-based standard for the management and delivery of multimedia news. A founder member of TopicMaps.org, Daniel served as chair of the subgroup that developed the XML Topic Maps Conceptual Model. Currently, Daniel is acting steering group chair of Knowledge on the Web (KnoW), a collaborative initiative aimed at furthering the development of the latest generation of Web technologies in the service of knowledge management and knowledge sharing. Daniel has a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of Oxford.
Judy Skubal has over 12 years experience as a Software Developer, the last five of which have been focused on SGML and XML application development. She currently works as a System Architect for Telos Corporation in Ashburn, Virginia.
Karli Watson is an in-house author for Wrox Press with a penchant for multicolored clothing. He started out with the intention of becoming a world famous nanotechnologist, so perhaps one day you might recognize his name as he receives a Nobel Prize. For now, though, Karli's computing interests include all things mobile, and upcoming technologies such as C#.
Scott Williams is a writer and trainer who has been working with Java since it's early beta days, and XML since well before it was a spec. He has contributed to several other books on Java, has co-authored numerous articles for Visual Systems Journal, and has spoken at major conferences across North America. He co-founded The Willcam Group in 1988, where he was senior developer and editor of 28 courses on software development. Most recently he was appointed Director of Technology and Development Training for the Corporate Education Services division of CDI Education Corporation, the largest IT skills development company in Canada. Scott welcomes email at scott.williams@cdilearn.com.
Kal Ahmed has now reached the watershed stage in his life where he has been programming and consulting for more than a third of his time on the planet. Despite the shock of realising this, he plans to continue putting his experience of Topic Maps, XML, Java, Python and C++ to the test on a daily basis, in his role as Principal Consultant for Ontopia, a company dedicated to the creation of premium software tools using Topic Map technology.
James Hart is a Technical Architect at Wrox Press, specializing in open source and enterprise Java technologies. His first computer experiences came at the tender age of five, when he watched his father solder together a Sinclair ZX81 on the kitchen table, and a subsequent mis-spent youth playing around on Ataris and Macintoshes was all that was needed to ensure he could never escape the lure of the IT industry, in spite of several attempts to find something better to do with his time. His main hobby is trying to work out if he can justify buying an Apple G4 Cube, when he already owns a G4 tower...
