David G. Halsted

Suppose you're approached to build a distributed Web back end for TechnicalNotes.com. TechnicalNotes.com wants it's Web site to display brief pages summarizing recently published articles on various Web technologies. The notes are written by authors scattered over a wide area using many different platforms, so the company has chosen to store their submissions in XML. TechnicalNotes.com has contracted with another company to collect and store data about the articles themselves, which will be stored in XML on another server in a remote location. Provide Code that's Easy to Maintain Your task is to parse the XML pieces on the fly and combine the summaries on the TechnicalNotes.com server with the data on the remote server. You need to provide the customer with code that's easy to maintain and change. TechnicalNotes.com doesn't have a lot of Perl or Java programmers capa... (more)