Overview of XML and Java Technology

Features and Benefits of XML The eXtended markup language (XML) is a metalanguage -- that is, a language for describing other languages -- that allows people and computers to search for and exchange scientific, engineering and business data/information. Web page content is separated from presentation -- applications decide how the data will be displayed. XML allows for custom interpretation of data sets (write once, publish anywhere). Features and Benefits of Java Java is an object-oriented programming language that compiles into a platform-independent bytecode. Therefore, Java bytecode is portable, and we can reuse software components across heterogeneous computing platforms (write once, run anywhere).

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