Customers say they want them, vendors are scrambling to provide them, and opinions vary as to how to set them up correctly. They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that ...

When the Classwell Learning Group began building a database of online lesson plans and other information for teachers, it needed to store and access content ranging from word processing files to copy ...

The basic tenet of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is to provide loose-coupling for different applications. It is thus imperative that data is produced by and for these applications, and that ...