Developing XML-Based Applications

Ojbectives

On completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand XML syntax and the capabilities of XML
• Define XML grammars and validate documents
• Use XSLT to transform XML documents
• Program with XML APIs based on DOM, SAX and StAX
• Understand Web Services, security and SOA
• Create and deploy a Web Service Endpoint
• Use XML in web applications and database applications
• Leverage XML for use in Enterprise Systems

Creating and Using XML

• XML document structure
• Elements and attribute
• Text nodes
• Processing instructions and comment
• Namespaces
• Unicode and character encoding

Defining XML Grammars with DTDs

• What is a grammar?
• Validation
• What is a DTD?
• Writing and applying a DTD

XML Schema Definitions

• What is an XML Schema?
• Writing and applying an XML Schema
• Element groups
• Data types and structures

Transforming XML Using XSLT Stylesheets

• Style sheets: CSS, XSLT
• Benefits of XSLT style sheets
• Obtaining node values
• Applying and matching template rules
• Processing selective nodes with XPath
• XSLT programming with loops and if statements
• Creating new content
• XML grammar transformation

SAX Parsing

• Event-driven parsing
• Push with SAX
• Pull with StAX
• Handling errors

Introduction to DOM Parsing

• Introduction to DOM
• DOM interfaces
• Loading an XML document into a DOM parser
• Navigating a tree
• Accessing elements and attributes

Further DOM Processing

• Creating new content using DOM
• Removing/replacing/rearranging content

XML and Objects

• OO Programming concepts: properties and methods
• Distributed applications and Objects
• Binding technologies, schema generation and code generation

Introduction to Web Services

• Web Service Interactions
• SOAP and WSDL
• Registries: UDDI, ebXML, BizTalk
• Toolkits: AXIS, JAX-RPC & JAX-WS, SOAP-lite, .NET

XML Security

• XML Encryption
• XML Digital Signatures
• SAML
• WS-Security and WSE

Using XML in Web Applications

• XHTML standards
• Using XML to communicate with a server
• AJAX and Web 2.0 Technologies
• Portals

XML and Databases

• Database support for XML
• LINQ and ADO.NET
• JDBC RowSets

Using XML in Enterprise Applications

• EAI and Interoperability
• Oriented Architecture
• Common XML Grammars: FIX, SWIFT, etc
• Architectural options
• Performance issues