Application data should be held in a database or in configuration files, but never hardcoded in the application itself. Developers don’t need to think about a configuration file format: XML is the ...

Web Services Security (WSS) refers to a set of XML message-level standards designed to ensure the security of various aspects of SOA (service-oriented architecture). Yet, due largely to the inherent ...

JPA-based applications can't connect to a database on their own. Rather, they need help in terms of what credentials to use, which schema to seek, which JDBC driver to select and which annotated ...