A REST API (short for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a way two separate pieces of software can talk over the internet using standard rules. At its core, it lets ...

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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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 ...

This is a bit loaded question as if you're looking at this page, it's rendered from (X)HTML = XML. But what I am interested in (for a talk / research topic) is if people are still choosing (directly ...