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XML IDEs vs. Classic IDEs: competition or synergy? (industry commentary).

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During the past few months I've seen several discussions on the validity of the term XML developer. Does this breed of developer exist in today's computing industry? Has XML matured to a stage that it warrants job descriptions for developers who specialize in XML programming? Is there an independent category of programming that relates primarily to XML?

For example, recent articles in XML-Journal (Vol. 3, issue 3) have sparked a discussion in the community that orbits around the needs of the XML developer -- a new breed of developer whose scope of work encompasses a multitude of different XML-related technologies to a point where the actual programming language these folks work in is no longer relevant. This is much the same process that has occurred in other areas, and gave birth to the database developer some 34 years ago with the standardization of SQL. I'd like to address this issue here, and demonstrate that XML and the XML developer have definitely come of age.

In light of this development, the behavior of such a developer certainly bears investigation, particularly with respect to development environments. This will allow us to shed some light on the recent debate about whether there is a natural synergy between classic IDEs (such as Borland's JBuilder or Microsoft's Visual...

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