Mozilla Foundation Announces Beta Release of XForms 1.0 Recommendation

Mozilla Foundation Announces Beta Release of XForms 1.0 Recommendation: "Developed in collaboration with IBM, Novell, and the open source community, XForms technology is now available as an extension to the Mozilla 1.8 and Firefox 1.1 web browsers which are currently under development."

Hummm... Novell is on it too...

[Programming][Web]

Mozilla Firefox and XForms

Mozilla and XForms: With looks like XForms is finally going to get some traction...

[Programming][Web]

Open Source Software in Java

Open Source Software in Java(tm): Most Open Source Java software I know - and even some that I don't - is here.

Now, this saves me the trouble of building my own directory...

[Programming][Java][OpenSource]

Time for the FirebirdSQL Open Source database...

SourceForge.net: firebird-devel: "My name is David Shamlin; I am with SAS Institute, Inc (http://www.sas.com/). SAS is the company that comissioned the Vulcan port of Firebird. We are a business and analytic intelligence software vendor."
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"Currently, SAS has three developers and a DBMS product specialist working full time with the Vulcan source. A couple of additional individuals are contributing on a part time basis to additional porting and testing efforts."
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"David Shamlin is a R&D Director for the SAS Institute, Inc."

SAS is the world's leader in business analytics software, delivering the breakthrough technology you need to transform the way you do business. Our software provides one integrated process for analyzing data from every source and gaining the predictive power to drive change at every level.

I am very glad about this. To me, this is the most promising Open Source database. It is a pitty that their marketing skills are not up to the technical quality of their product... but maybe this helps.

[Programming][Database]

Novell strikes back!

Novell Linux Desktop 9 Screenshot tour: Novell strikes back!

SAX made easy

Otaku, Cedric's weblog: "Why I prefer SAX to parse XML" or SAX made easy.

I often use Dom4J with XPath to parse XML documents. I also used the Apache Excalibur configuration stuff (when it was still an Avalon subproject). The two SAX classes used to build the configuration tree structure used in this Excalibur package are simple enough to make one understand that SAX is not such a complicated beast (...even after it started supporting namespaces).

Still, Cedric's display of how simple SAX can be, for (maybe not so) simple parsing needs, is really interesting to follow!


[Programming][Java][XML]