XML Weekend Crash Course covers the ins and outs of XML in 30 sessions. Each session is designed to take 30 minutes to complete, so the Crash Course is an intense 15-hour learning period. You can complete the Crash Course over a single weekend — but you can also easily adapt the Crash Course sessions to whatever schedule best suits your needs.
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If you’re reading this, you are likely ready to work with the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and are seeking some direction.This book provides information about XMLand the issues involved in designing XML-based solutions for business problems. It does so in a case-study format, with each chapter taking one part of the single main project, and leading you through the design of a solution for that, so that by the end of the book, you will understand every aspect of using XMLto design business solutions.

After a broad-stroke introduction to XMLtechnologies, the book surveys solutions to typical business and technology needs that are best solved using XML. You’ll tackle XMLmarkup—more specifically, the kind of markup that you find “under the hood” of everyday applications and web services. Commonly available resources are used to show you the fundamentals of what XMLmarkup is, how to get at valuable information through these resources, and how to begin providing valuable information to others through XML.
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The book you are holding in your hand is a battle plan.You are engaged in mortal combat and might not even recognize the kind of battle you have to fight.But fight it you will,and fight it you must.

If you are reading this foreword,the title Hack Proofing XML has interested you. You might have picked it up in some bookstore and are thumbing through it to get a sense of whether or not you are willing to plunk down the ducats to buy it.Or you might have ordered it online.How you got the book into your hands doesn’t matter a whit.You are here,and the dialogue has begun.

Wherever these words find you,find a comfortable place to sit down and read these few introductory pages in one swoop.It will only take a few minutes,but it’s important.Really.
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* Offering a unique approach to learning XML, this book walks readers through the process of building a complete, functional, end-to-end XML solution
* Featured case study is an online business product catalog that includes reports, data input/output, workflow, stylesheet formatting, RSS feeds, and integration with external services like Google, eBay, and Amazon
* The format of presenting a problem and working through the design to come up with a solution enables readers to understand how XML markup allows a business to share data across applications internally or with partners or customers even though they might not use the same applications
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* Offering a unique approach to learning XML, this book walks readers through the process of building a complete, functional, end-to-end XML solution
* Featured case study is an online business product catalog that includes reports, data input/output, workflow, stylesheet formatting, RSS feeds, and integration with external services like Google, eBay, and Amazon
* The format of presenting a problem and working through the design to come up with a solution enables readers to understand how XML markup allows a business to share data across applications internally or with partners or customers even though they might not use the same applications
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The UML Profile for Framework Architectures provides a UML profile for object and component frameworks. It shows how to describe framework architectures and to support framework modeling and annotation by using UML-compliant extensions.

If you are a software developer, project manager, researcher or student interested in design patterns, framework technology or UML, this book is essential reading. It will enable you to:

* Understand the basic elements of the UML-F profile and to harness UML to support framework development more effectively.
* Define UML-F tags for domain-specific design patterns.
* Learn a real-world approach for framework design, development and adaptation, through practical hints and guidelines.
* Apply UML-F, illustrated by the sample framework JUnit and a framework for embedded control system.
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For database professionals, this book provides a practical guide to the use of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for database design. It is intended for those who have to make things happen in the real world; those who have to deliver real systems to meet real business needs. In short, this book is designed for those pragmatic, working database designers who need to get things done. UML for Database Design addresses the questions most frequently asked of us by database professionals from all over the globe: How can I use UML for database design in the real world? How can I fit the UML into my current process? How should the database design team adopt this approach? How can database and application teams work together using the UML? The Approach We have endeavored to ensure that this book didn’t get lost in theory, buried in formalism, or trivialized by unrealistic, contrived examples. Thus, at times we may run contrary to the purists. That’s OK. The approach we take is to introduce the use of UML for database design in a stepwise fashion, for each phase of the system development life cycle. We move from business modeling at the beginning of the life cycle to database design at the end. We show how the UML applies to the process and the value it provides to the database designer in each phase.
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* Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of UML (Unified Modeling Language), including use, diagramming notation, the object constraint language, and profiles
* UML is the industry standard specification for modeling, visualizing, and documenting software projects
* Includes up-to-date coverage of both UML 1.4 and the new 2.0 UML specifications
* Thoroughly covers executable UML and testing UML diagrams, making coding more efficient
* Companion Web site provides additional code samples and updates
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* Uses friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style to help readers learn to model systems with the latest version of UML, the modeling language used by companies throughout the world to develop blueprints for complex computer systems
* Guides programmers, architects, and business analysts through applying UML to design large, complex enterprise applications that enable scalability, security, and robust execution
* Illustrates concepts with mini-cases from different business domains and provides practical advice and examples
* Covers critical topics for users of UML, including object modeling, case modeling, advanced dynamic and functional modeling, and component and deployment modeling

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RSS and Atom in Action is organized into two parts. The first part introduces the blog technologies of news feed formats and publishing protocols-the building blocks. The second part shows how to put to those blocks together to assemble interesting and useful blog applications. In keeping with the behind Manning’s “In Action” series, this book shows the reader, through numerous examples in Java and C#, how to parse Atom and RSS format newsfeeds, how to generate valid newsfeeds and serve them efficiently, and how to automate blogging via web services based on the new Atom protocol and the older MetaWeblog API. The book also shows how to develop a complete blog client library that readers can use in their own applications. The second half of the book is devoted to a dozen blog apps-small but immediately useful example applications such as a community aggregator, a file distribution newsfeed, a blog cross-poster, an email-to-blog gateway, Ant tasks for blogging softwarebuilds, and more.
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