BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting presents information about how to develop and customize reports of progressive complexity using BIRT Report Designer. This tool was designed from the ground up for Web applications and uses a Web page-oriented design metaphor in contrast to older banded report writers that were developed before the advent of the Internet. This unique approach to report creation makes BIRT an approachable and effective tool for developers of all levels.
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Building Corporate Portals Using XML
Explains the topic to both managers and tech staff. It takes the reader from the planning and concepts stages to converting legacly data to creating and implementing a new, modern Corporate Portal using the XML programming language.
Professional XML
A definitive, practical guide to XML, this book discusses the latest standards surrounding the core XML 1.0 W3C recommendation. It is also a comprehensive guide to applying XML and the technologies associated with it in professional level applications.
XML Bible
The emergence of XML is having an enormous impact on Web development, and scaling the learning curve of this new technology is a priority for many developers. The XML Bible offers an introduction to the subject and the groundwork to understand XML's future developments.
Applied XML: A Toolkit for Programmers
Looking past much of the hype surrounding XML, Applied XML provides a real-world guide to the XML used in the latest browsers and server-side solutions. Approachable yet filled with useful specifics about XML standards, this book fills a valuable niche for any IS professional, including Java developers.
Client/Server Data Access With Java and XML
Written by client/server and Java experts in the world, this powerful book/CD package is a vital programming tool for all database developers interested in using Java and XML Web products and technologies for large corporate applications. You'll find out what these products are, how to program them, and how different and competing technologies can work together.
CORBA Developer's Guide with XML
A book/CD-ROM guide focusing on XML document type definition (DTD) design using the structures of CORBA to present a new perspective to programming in an object-oriented environment. Does not teach XML, but rather discusses design for experienced object-oriented programmers, network designers, and system administrators.
Designing Distributed Applications With XML: ASP IE5 LDAP and MSMQ
Designing Distributed Applications is all about creating Cooperative Network Applications. Their aim is to promote the re- use of Intranet and Internet applications and maintain the viability of applications in the face of change.
Charles F. Goldfarb's XML Handbook
Employing a standards-based unified vocabulary, this handbook describes major trends, applications, and product categories, and how they relate to one another and to XML technology. The whopping 69 chapters cover such areas as content management, portals, publishing, databases, and web services. The fourth edition adds chapters on schemas, datatypes, and XSL. The CD- ROMs contain 175 free software packages.
Structuring XML Documents
Though the book necessarily deals with some of the idiosyncrasies of XML and SGML DTDs and uses XML syntax in its examples it deals with issues--such as learning, usability and ease of processing--that all document designers and analysts must understand, whether or not they use XML or SGML and whether they use DTD syntax or other notations to define their structures.
Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical
This book centers on the technical and scientific fields, demonstrating the benefits XML offers those disciplines through established XML implementations. MathML--an XML dialect that displays mathematical equations--and the Chemical Markup Language (CML) are two examples of the languages presented in depth.
Mastering XML
This "real world" guide to XML covers everything you need to know about XML including how to convert HTML pages to XML, write your own XML documents, use XML authoring tools, and deliver XML documents in multiple formats.
Professional Visual Basic 6 XML
Professional Visual Basic 6 XML introduces the VB community to the concepts of XML. The book is for experienced VB developers who have listened to the hype, and now want to take advantage of XML technology and the available (free-to-use) implementations.
Sams Teach Yourself Xml in 21 Days
Discover the real-world applications of XML with this informative tutorial. Learn to write Web page markup tags without the complexity of SGML. Readers will develop real-world applications of XML, including Channel Definition Format (CDF), electronic commerce, and the Mathematical Markup Language.
XML For Dummies Quick Reference
Cut to the heart of XML's robust tools and open standards with XML For Dummies Quick Reference. Discover all the tips and tricks you need to create your own markup language that works any time, anywhere, on the Web. Get fast answers on what you need to know, when you need to know it.
XML: A Primer
If you are curious about the hype surrounding XML, ready for an XML book you can read cover to cover, and comfortable with lengthy code examples, XML: A Primer will offer you the knowledge you need to understand this emerging technology.
XML: A Manager's Guide
Amid the technical hoopla over the XML, many managers and executives find themselves scratching their heads and wondering what the new language means to them. In this book, author Kevin Dick offers an executive summary of this exciting new technology that focuses on the big picture.
XML by Example
Teaches Web developers to make the most of XML with short, self- contained examples every step of the way. The book concludes with a large real-world example of XML in e-commerce.
XML by Example: Building E-Commerce Applications
This book discusses what XML is and how it differs philosophically from HTML without competing with it. This introduction shows why XML is generating such excitement and how it will be of great importance to ecommerce.
XML Design and Implementation
Author Paul Spencer teaches readers XML through a combination of traditional tutorial and practical applications. Aimed at HTML coders, this book covers XML implementation using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and Active Server Pages.
XML For Dummies
This book provides an overview and reference for the XML. It introduces the structure and syntax of XML and includes a review of relevant SGML terminology and technology.
XML in Action
XML is the universal format for data on the Web. It allows developers to easily describe and deliver rich, structured data from any application in a standard, consistent way. XML IN ACTION is a valuable, insightful guide for HTML/Web authors eager to develop richer and more efficient Web applications and Web pages-using XML.
XML Specification Guide
A comprehensive technical reference that includes a concise overview of the purpose and scope of XML and its principles and an in-depth annotation specification guide that includes sample applications.
Beginning XML
Beginning XML provides a complete course in the Extensible Markup Language (XML) with an unusually gradual learning curve. In fact, the introduction states that the book is "for people who know that it would be a pretty good idea to learn the language, but aren't 100 percent sure why." Despite its recognition of the fuzziness of readers' understanding of the technology, the book delivers a rather comprehensive study of XML.
ActiveEducation's Introduction to XML
This course explains how to create, edit, display, style, and validate Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents and should require approximately two days to complete. This course is designed to explain major XML features and implementations to students, and to provide extensive hands-on exercises. This course also discusses the creation and use of document type definitions (DTD), cascading style sheets (CSS), and Extensible Style Language Transformation (XSLT) stylesheets. This course is not intended to be a comprehensive XML resource; instead, it is intended to provide students with a strong background in a wide range of XML capabilities so that students can more easily learn additional XML functions and capabilities.
Professional XML Meta Data
For any developer or designer creating XML and searchable Web documents, Professional XML Meta Data covers the essential XML- based standards and concepts that will facilitate the emerging "semantic Web" of the near future. Mixing the practical side of existing standards with a bit of prognostication of this evolving technology, this ambitious book casts a wide net to highlight some standards that may very well play a role in the evolution of the Internet.
Definitive XML Schema
To leverage the full power of XML, companies need shared vocabularies to base their documents and scripts upon. XML Schema makes it possible to create those shared vocabularies-and Definitive XML Schema is the authoritative guide to the standard! Written by Priscilla Walmsley, a member of the W3C working group that created XML Schema, this book explains the W3C Recommendation with unprecedented insight and clarity—and introduces practical techniques for writing schemas to support any B2B, Web service, or content processing application.
XML Schema: The W3C's Object-Oriented Descriptions for XML
The W3C's XML Schema offers a powerful set of tools for defining acceptable XML document structures and content. While schemas are powerful, that power comes with substantial complexity. This book explains XML Schema foundations, a variety of different styles for writing schemas, simple and complex types, datatypes and facets, keys, extensibility, documentation, design choices, best practices, and limitations. Complete with references, a glossary, and examples throughout.
Definitive XSLT and XPath
Whatever your XML applications—e-business, application integration, Web- and paper-based publishing, or content management—you need to master XSLT and XPath, today's key tools for transforming information into new and varied structured vocabularies and output formats. Definitive XSLT & XPath delivers concise, authoritative coverage of every key facet of these W3C recommendations. Nobody has taught more about XSLT and XPath than G. Ken Holman— chair of OASIS's XSLT/XPath Conformance Technical Subcommittee and long-time leader in the XML community. In this book, Holman draws upon live training materials to help you master the XSLT and XPath standards—fast—just as he's done for thousands of developers.
Building Oracle XML Applications
In a volume aimed mainly at Java and PL/SQL developers who want to use XML (document markup language) in conjunction with Oracle databases, a developer working on Oracle Business Components for Java uses extensive examples in overviewing XML concepts and standards, XML technologies, and building custom applications. Assumes familiarity with SQL and either Java or PL/SQL as a programming language, but not XML. Includes installation and online reference material, and a CD-ROM containing Oracle JDeveloper 3.1 for Windows NT/2000.
XML and Java: Developing Web Applications
Written by members of IBM's Tokyo research lab, this guide explains how to develop Java programs that deal with XML as the input and output data format. The second edition has been substantially expanded to cover DOM level 2, SAX2, XSLT, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. The CD-ROM contains sample programs and trial versions of WebSphere and DB2.
Visual Basic.NET and XML: Harness the Power of XML in VB.NET Applications
With the release of Visual Basic .NET, XML support is tightly integrated into the language and provides numerous methods for manipulating XML data. This tight integration means that VB programmers can load, manipulate, and save XML data faster and more easily than ever before. With real-world and fully functional examples, Rod Stephens and Brian Hochgurtel walk you step-by-step through how to take advantage of XML in all aspects of enterprise VB.NET development.
UML for Database Design
Introduces the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and how it can be applied to database modeling and design. The authors describe how the artifacts provided by business modeling are used to establish system requirements, address issues that arise during the mapping of object models to data models, and illustrate application of the UML diagrams and techniques through a recurrent case study.
Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML
Offers detailed solutions to a wide range of practical problems while equipping you with keen understanding of the fundamental issues-including data models, query languages, and schemas- involved in their design, implementation and optimization. DLC: Database management.
XML for Data Architects: Designing for Reuse and Integration
XML for Data Architects focuses on the combination of architectural and design approaches to using XML, providing numerous syntactical and working examples. It describes the challenges of using XML in a manner that promotes simplification of integration, and a high degree of schema reuse. It also describes the syntactical capabilities of XML and XML Schemas, and the similarities (and in some cases limitations) of XML DTDs. This book is of particular importance in the age of application integration and web services.
XML Data Management: Native XML and XML-Enabled Database Systems
Forty-five international specialists in eXtensive Markup Language (XML) contribute 21 chapters to this text for professionals experienced in database technology and possibly XML, looking to learn how these two technologies can be used together. Coverage includes information modeling guidelines; two native XML databases (Tamino and eXist); products and approaches to XML data management in relational and object-relational database systems; applications and case studies of XML use in such areas as bioinformatics, customer service, cash flow improvement, data warehouses, and inductive database systems; and benchmarks for evaluating XML database performance.
Querying XML
For software developers and systems architects, this book teaches the most useful approaches to querying XML documents and repositories. This book will also help managers and project leaders grasp how querying XML fits into the larger context of querying and XML. Querying XML provides a comprehensive background from fundamental concepts (What is XML?) to data models (the Infoset, PSVI, XQuery Data Model) to APIs (querying XML from SQL or Java) and more.
BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting
Integrating and Extending BIRT
This book describes the key components of BIRT architecture, applications and engines, including installing, deploying and troubleshooting the reporting and charting engines in an Enterprise Java application-server environment. For developers who wish to incorporate custom business logic in their reports or access data from Java objects, the book describes BIRT's extensive scripting capabilities in JavaScript and Java. For developers who want to extend the BIRT framework, the book describes the key extension points to use in creating customized report items, rendering extensions for generating output other than HTML or PDF and Open Data Access (ODA) drivers for new data sources. The book provides extensive examples of how to build plug-ins to extend the features of the BIRT framework.
Data Mining for Business Intelligence
Learn how to develop models for classification, prediction, and customer segmentation. This book provides both a theoretical and practical understanding of the key methods of classification, prediction, reduction, exploration and affinity analysis; features a business decision-making context for these key methods; and illustrates the application and interpretation of these methods using real business cases and data.
