Articles

XQuery For Java, An Enabler For SOA
XQuery offers a rich set of features for working with the structure of an XML document, offering you compelling abilities not possible with XPath or XSLT. In a sense, it's SQL for XML. In this article, Sowmya Hubert & Binildas C. A. look at the Java API for XQuery and how you can use it in your SOA applications. Apr. 19, 2007

JOTM Transactions In Spring And Hibernate
You need transactional integrity across databases, so you either use big app servers or munge JTA into your business logic, right? Maybe there's a lighter approach. Sowmya Hubert and Binildas C. A. say you can achieve the same thing with Spring, Hibernate, and JOTM, the "Java Open Transaction Manager." Aug. 31, 2006