Tag Archives: JSON

JSON is an easy standard to parse in client-server applications. It is easy to implement and simple to understand. With the release of the iOS 5 SDK, the NSJSONSerialization class was added in the SDK, which gives an easy to … Continue reading →

XML parsing is an essential element for client-server applications. Most of the data transferred between client and server is in XML format, and generally, the XML data received from the server is of XML-RPC, SOAP, REST or RSS standard. In … Continue reading →

It’s been an exciting year! From Responsive Web Design to jQuery Mobile, we’ve published a lot of great tips and tricks for developers in our Safari Books Online blog. Here we’ve compiled our most popular posts of 2012, along with … Continue reading →

MongoDB is a NoSQL document-oriented database that enables applications to readily scale with increased load. In a previous article, we covered MongoDB’s basics and explained how data can be modeled in it as well as the programming environment it supports. … Continue reading →

In a previous article, we covered what MongoDB is and how it enables scalability to be achieved due to its unique architecture. One key component of that architecture is the data model, which is based upon schema-less documents and collections. … Continue reading →

SQL databases such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle have served us well for the past decades. From small desktop applications to large enterprise resource planning systems, these databases have been faithfully fulfilling their tasks. The massive growth of … Continue reading →

In a previous article we covered the basics of the Apache Cassandra database, a modern, open source, NoSQL database inspired by Google’s BigTable implementation. Cassandra exposes a unique data model composed of rows, columns, and column families all stored in … Continue reading →

Spring MVC is an implementation of the Model-View-Controller pattern for the Web. Providing Web services requires building code which speaks potentially many protocols, such as JSON and XML. The modular architecture of Spring MVC allows translation from these protocols to … Continue reading →

In case you missed these blog posts when they were first published… here are five of the Best of Safari Blog posts that are bubbling to the top as the most popular for October 2012.

The recent popularity of Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ has brought new challenges for popular websites on the Internet. The ability of certain links to go “viral” resulting in the associated websites to experience the slashdot … Continue reading →