Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

Preface

Someday most business applications will be able to read and write XML files. Until that happens, you are probably going to need techniques and utilities like those presented in this book. This book is for people who use business applications that don't currently support XML and for people who develop those applications and want to build XML support into them. It is designed to provide a tool kit of techniques and utilities that can help you perform common enterprise application integration (EAI), business-to-business (B2B), or electronic data interchange (EDI) data conversion operations using XML.

Nothing in this book is rocket science. Any good programmer with experience in the relevant technologies could develop any of these techniques ...