XML and JSON are important to me, and I’m grateful to Apress for letting me write an entire book about them. In this article I will briefly introduce the second edition of my new book, Java XML and ...

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I've come a long way over the years in terms of software development. There was a time when all I needed was an HTML form on the client-side and a Servlet's getRequestParameter() method on the server ...

These text-file formats can all be used to store structured data for embedded and Web applications—but there are differences among them. What are JSON, XML, and YAML? Text-file formats that can be ...

I don't use Visual Studio's Edit menu enough, obviously: For some time there's been a Paste Special option on that menu that I didn't know about. It has up to two choices depending on what kind of ...

The widespread use of ASCII encoding formats like JSON and rest may be killing server performance. A wide variety of emerging binary formats offer significantly improved performance for processing ...

Learn how to build a custom output formatter in ASP.Net Core to exchange data in formats other than JSON, XML, and plain text ASP.Net Core provides built-in support for data exchange in the JSON and ...

Firefox 3 adds a bunch of nice features under the hood for software developers. Many of those features, including native JSON support and web-based protocol handlers, have been under heavy development ...

I know. I’m playing with fire today. I am going to tell you why I don’t like XML and all the reasons it’s not a good way of transporting data on the factory floor. XML has a weight problem, but then ...