Preface

While a number of books on XML are available, none covers XML support in Oracle JDeveloper. Welcome to Processing XML documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g, a book that will teach you about using Oracle XML technologies in Oracle JDeveloper. XML is the standard medium of data exchange. Examples of data exchange using XML are web feeds, which include RSS feeds and Atom feeds, and XML messages in web services. Java is the language most commonly used to process XML. Among the IDEs, Oracle JDeveloper has the most XML features. Some of the graphical XML features in JDeveloper are an XML editor to create an XML document, an XML schema editor to model an XML schema, and an XPath explorer to process XPath expressions. JDeveloper also provides built-in support for JAXB compilation. JDeveloper includes an integrated application server—the WebLogic Server—for running XML-based applications. Oracle XML Developer Kit (XDK) provides a set of components, tools, and utilities for developing XML-based applications. The XDK 11g libraries are included with Oracle JDeveloper 11g.

The objective of this book is to discuss XML development in Oracle JDeveloper. We shall use JDeveloper 11g, the latest version of JDeveloper. As developers commonly use an IDE for processing XML and developing XML applications, the book covers all aspects of XML development, which include:

We shall use the Oracle XDK 11g for Java to develop XML applications. We shall also discuss Oracle XML Publisher and Oracle Berkeley DB XML. By the end of this book, you should know everything there is to know about XML and JDeveloper.