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Course - XML for Enterprise Applications

Course overview:

This course provides a solid background and practical experience of using a variety of XML technologies and positions these technologies in the context of Java / J2EE enterprise applications: B2B, B2C, multi-tiered architectures. This course covers XML and important associated technologies. The main topics cover: XML syntax and structure, validation using DTD and XML Schema, use of Nampespaces, XPath for document navigation and querying, XSLT for XML document transformation and presentation, XSL-Formatting Objects for production of print-oriented output, XML database technologies including XQuery. The course explains how XML is used for both document and data driven applications, providing a close-up view of tools and techniques in action.

This is a highly practical course and has numerous workshops.

Who should attend:

Java developers deploying XML-based e-business applications.

Course objectives:

• to understand XML syntax, components, and structure
• to understand the nature and use of validation technologies
• to appreciate the need and use of namespaces
• to understand the capabilities of processing and transformation technologies
• to use Java in conjunction with DOM & SAX libraries to process XML documents
• to gain an awareness of the range of XML database techniques and tools
• to gain an awareness of the wide-range of XML applications and vocabularies
• to understand the nature and capabilities of XML-based messaging systems
• to gain an awareness of the most widely used XML tools

Prerequisites:

Lightweight working knowledge of HTML & Java.

Duration:

4 days

Course contents:

• Introduction
• History, Standards, Organizations, Background
• XML syntax and Document Structure
• Document Validation - DTD
• Standard Implementations - Vocabularies
• Namespaces
• Document Validation - XML Schema
• XPath
• Parsing techniques
  • DOM, SAX, Pull Processing, StAX
• Parsing XML - DOM
  • Apache Xerces
• Parsing XML - SAX
  • Apache Xerces
• Overview of Tools and Utilities
• The Large and Small of XML
• Declarative Transformation - XSLT
  • Apache Xalan
• Web Services & Messaging - XML-RPC and SOAP
  • Apache AXIS and JAX-RPC
• Persistence for XML
• XQuery
• XML-Based Technologies

On successful completion of this course:

Attendees will be able to understand the wide range of uses, positioning, processing and transformations of XML. Students will also gain practical experience of using a variety of XML tools and of using Java to carry out XML processing using Apache foundation libraries and other tools e.g. XMLSpy.

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