What is JAX-P-

Hello and welcome to JAX-P article,

in this article,we will discuss details about JAX-P. JAX-P stands for XML processing.

As we disscussed in 'What is XML' article, XML is also a document which contains data.

earlier there were no options in JAVA to read XML files, users has to use java I/O to XML document.

later JAVA has provided to this API to process XML documents.

XML can be read either from starting or in random order ,JAVA provides two types of parsers to process XML files.

SAX-PARSER :

SAX parser reads the document in sequential order.
it is event based parser.
there are different types of events called document start,element start,element end..

it can read only one element at any time.
it uses less memory
it is fast compared with DOM parser.

SAXParserFactory saxparserFactory=
SAXParserFactory.newInstance();

 SAXPARSER parser=saxparserFactory.newSAXParser();

using parser, we can parse the XML documents. it provides some set of methods to perform the read operations

SAX parser can only read the documents.

Web services-Part 01

Web services is a technology, using which applications of two different technologies can communicate with each other.

the application which implements web services is called provider

and the application which uses these web services is callled consumer.

W3C organization has provided some set of guidelines to implement web services.

Initially W3C has released a document with set of guidelines that document is called BP 1.0 (Basic profile).

Java has provided JAVA-RPC specification to follow these guidelines and to implement web services

later W3C has provided a document another set of guidelines called BP1.1. java has provided JAVA-WS API to implement these guidelines

Once we implement web services using any of the above API, we need to provide their details using WSDL.

WSDL stands for web services description language, using which we can provide details about our services and methods and heir parameters

When a consumer wants to use these web services, they can refer this WSDL document.


once this WSDL is ready, and if you want to make your web services public, we can add this WSDL in UDDI

UDDI stands for universal desciption,directory integration.
we can add details about our web services in UDDI.

read our next article to understand more about web services

What is XSD

Hello and welcome to this article... in this article, we will see some basic details of XSD

XSD stands for XML Schema definition.

in XSD root tag is mandatory, all other tags should come under this XSD.

as we already know,XML can contain either simple tag or compound tag.

to define simple tag, we can use

<xs: element name="itemcode" type="xs:string">

to define complex attributes, XSD provides xs:complexType as shown below.


<xs:complexType name="address">
<xs:sequence> or <xs:all>
 <xs: element name="street" type="xs:string">
<xs:element name="state" type="xs:string">
</xs:sequence> or </xs:all>
</xs:complexType>

when we use xs:sequence, it specifies the all the nested elements should come in the same order
 
when we use xs:all, these attributes can come in any order

once we define a complex element, we can refere them in any other complex types

<xs:element name="permentaddr" type="address">

</xs:element>


Working with multipole XSDs
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If you want to refer one XSD in another XSD, we can use import or include.

if both XSDs are in same location, we  can use include

if both XSDs are in different locations, we use import

<xs:schema targetNamespace="xxxx">
</xs:schema>

<xs:schema targetnamespace="XXX">

<xs:include schemalocation="po1.xsd"

</xs:schema?