suns jdbc spec lead for the past seven years, jonathan bruce has for the past 6 months been technology product evangelist for datadirect, and is now championing xquery, the query language for xml and relational data no matter where it lives, which he talked about with sys-con.tv (http://sys-con.tv) at web services edge 2005 in boston.
at sun, bruce had a lot of experience with sql and query languages working with jdbc and trying to express that in the best possible way at the api level. "we really struggled with certain things that we just could not express because of the limitations and history of sql when it came to dealing with xml in a graceful manner," he said, "whereas xquery is a fully functional language so you can deal with xml as xml - you dont have to do an... 下一页