Using XML with Legacy Business Applications - Softcover

Rawlins, Michael C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321154940 ISBN 13: 9780321154941

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2003

Synopsis

This resource for technical end users and developers describes an approach to data conversion using Java and C++ that is open, nonproprietary, standards-based, and portable. IT consultant Rawlins offers a tool kit of techniques and utilities for performing common enterprise application integration (EAI), business-to-business (B2B) or electronic data interchange (EDI) data conversion operations using XML. The techniques are illustrated through the building of converters for legacy formats. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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About the Author

Michael C. Rawlins has more than twenty years of information technology consulting experience in a variety of industries. He is the founder of Rawlins EC Consulting and has served as the vice chair of the Communications and Controls subcommittee of ANSI ASC X12 for three years. Before founding Rawlins EC Consulting, Michael worked as a consultant with the Digital Equipment Corporation.

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From the Back Cover

"This volume offers relentlessly pragmatic solutions to help your business applications get the most out of XML, with a breezy style that makes the going easy. Mike has lived this stuff; he has a strong command of the solutions and the philosophy that underlies them."
--Eve Maler, XML Standards Architect, Sun Microsystems

Businesses running legacy applications that do not support XML can face a tough choice: Either keep their legacy applications or switch to newer, XML-enhanced applications. XML presents both challenges and opportunities for organizations as they struggle with their data.

Does this dilemma sound familiar? What if you could enable a legacy application to support XML? You can. In Using XML with Legacy Business Applications, e-commerce expert Michael C. Rawlins outlines usable techniques for solving day-to-day XML-related data exchange problems. Using an easy-to-understand cookbook approach, Rawlins shows you how to build XML support into legacy business applications using Java and C++. The techniques are illustrated by building converters for legacy formats.

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Some day most business applications will be able to read and write XML files. Until that happens, you are probably going to need techniques and utilities like those presented in this book. This book is for people who use business applications that don't currently support XML, and for people who develop those applications and want to build XML support into them. It is designed to provide a tool kit of techniques and utilities that can help you to perform common EAI, B2B, and EDI data conversion operations using XML.

Nothing in this book is rocket science. Any good programmer with experience in the relevant technologies could develop any of these techniques and utilities. The point of this book is that I've done it so that you don't have to. As is often said, good programmers develop good programs. Better programmers steal what they can and modify it. Steal this code.

If you are a user of a business application and already have or can afford to procure a capable EAI or EDI software package, you probably don't need this book. However, if you only have some simple needs that don't justify the purchase of such a package, or if for some other reason you don't want to or can't afford to spend thousands of dollars to purchase one, then this book is for you. In addition, if you are interested in an open, nonproprietary, standards based, and portable approach to data conversion, then this book is for you, too.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321154940
• ISBN 13: 9780321154941
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352