DataDirect will announce XQuery, which it describes as 'an easily embeddable XQuery implementation for XML applications that need to process both XML and relational data sources,' on Tuesday, May 17.

Dell's plans to hire 2,000 more people in India will increase its total workforce to between 9,000 and 10,000. Although the majority will be part of the company's call centers, Dell said it would hire members for its software development office in Bangalore as well.

XML has become the dominant vehicle for data exchange, but a growing awareness of critical performance issues has prevented widespread deployment of Web Services solutions. Not anymore. Tarari Inc., the award-winning acceleration company, announced today that it has overcome Tarari say

Users, vendors, governments, and researchers from Europe and around the world will gather in Amsterdam on May 24 to examine and discuss advances in e-Business standards at the OASIS Open Standards Day. Sponsored by the international, not-for-profit consortium, OASIS, the event will fea

IBM has bolstered its Emerging Technologies Toolkit, available through IBM alphaWorks, by adding three new XML development tools to its collection of emerging technologies for developers and early adopters. The tools aim to help developers reduce the manual coding required to create o

Sarvega conducted an independent product security assessment of its XML Guardian Gateway, and reported that 'the management and administration aspects of the most current release of Sarvega's XML Guardian Gateway adheres to security industry best practices.'

Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems and co-inventor of XML 1.0 will speak at CSW's sixth XML Summer School on 'Trends & Transients in XML.' The XML Summer School 2005 is being held at Wadham College, University of Oxford, between 24th and 29th July. Highlights i

When Microsoft dropped XQuery from .NET Framework 2.0 (Whidbey), it hadn't perhaps reckoned with Stylus Studio's mission to support what it calls 'XQuery for All!' Just as the Java community - through their work in JSR 225: An XQuery API for Java - recognizes the importance of XQuery,

Web Services Journal recently interviewed Theo Beack, Software AG's new Chief SOA Architect. Beack will be heading a new SOA Competency Center, to be based in the Washington, DC area. The Center will draw on the company's 30 years of global experience in developing sophisticated custom

Web services security pioneer Forum Systems on Monday announced plans to add virus protection to its flagship XML Firewall product. Forum Systems Inc., of Salt Lake City, will partner with Computer Associates International Inc. to integrate CA's eTrust anti-virus scanning engine with i

The Department of Defense (DoD) Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS) describes the DOD's preferred approach for decorating data assets with metadata. By providing a common convention for metadata, the DoD is building a common system for asset discovery, search, description, consumpt

Will many of the features in XML Schema be widely used? In particular, I agree that it is better to have an XML language for specifying document layout rather than the DTD language. On the other hand, I am not sure that the document layout should be strongly typed. The nightmare scenar

How important are data considerations to service-oriented architectures (SOA) vending Web services? Consider the following definition of Web services from AMR Research: 'Web services have been commonly defined as a standardized way of integrating applications using Extensible Markup La

Tokyo's Two Space Co., Ltd., has developed the Office Storage Hub, to provide the linking of corporate and office data created in Microsoft Office within a network environment. Official worldwide sales of Office Storage Hub will begin in May 2005. Microsoft Corporation plans worldwide

'Compliance and security are the new Software Quality drivers,' said Dr Adam Kolawa, cofounder and CEO of Parasoft Corporation, talking live on SYS-CON.TV to Sean Rhody, editor-in-chief of Web Services Journal and Yakov Fain, Enterprise Editor of JDJ.

Yakov Fain reaches Lesson 11 in his popular 'Java basics' series. This time he deals with how and why Java programmers working on large projects that have lots of classes usually organize them in different packages; and explores the new element introduced in Java 5.0 called static impo

When in October of last year I asked the rhetorical question 'Is Mergermania Back?' (JDJ, Vol. 9, issue 10), there wasn't much doubt that it already was, but it took until last month to truly demonstrate just to what extent. It's not just back; in March we saw it's back with a vengeanc

At the Open Source Business Conference taking place today in San Francisco, Sun's President and COO, Jonathan Schwartz emphasized that 'free' equates not to 'no revenue' but instead to 'more opportunity to create revenue.'

Adobe has created a new public specification, IPTC Core Schema for XMP, designed to ensure the consistency of metadata.

Approximately 40,000 U.S. Army personnel worldwide can now submit their updated financial information online, along with a legally binding digital signature, using Infomosaic's SecureXML Java Applet. The SecureXML Java Applet allows them to access their common access card (CAC) based P

Now that Yahoo! Mail has matched the Gmail offer of 1GB storage to its free e-mail customers, Google is doing the obvious thing and pulling ahead again, reopening 'the one-gig gap' between its Gmail service and all-comers.

RLX Technologies Inc, the blade pioneer now in its post-hardware, software-only phase, has moved its headquarters to a converted barn in Old Town Spring, Texas, a snug little place in the throes of preservation north of Houston. The move goes along with the company's new perspective an

Arbortext president says, 'XBRL has great potential to bring tremendous benefits to the financial community.'

Reactivity is extending enterprise XML Web services infrastructure with its SOA Gateway, the industry's first gateway optimized for SOA deployments in data centers.

The latest version of Reactivity's patent-pending XML operating system is designed to make using Web services easy and practical.

There are many reasons why security professionals and application developers seem to work at cross-purposes when bringing XML Web Services to production. By understanding the key differences in approach and the way to bridge them, organizations can realize significant time-to-market an

SOAP is an XML based data protocol standardized by W3C for the purpose of enabling inter-application data exchange over the Internet. In a typical Web Services scenario, a SOAP message delivered via HTTP needs to be parsed before anything else can happen. As two popular SOAP processing

The Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) specification provides for morphing XML documents into other XML documents. An XML document can also be transformed into a format other than XML such as HTML or text. An XSLT processor is required for an XSLT transformation. Som

WebRenderer 3.0, called a 'milestone' in Java browser component technology, represents the culmination of development effort and refinement with a number of JadeLiquid's key customers.

SOA Software is acquiring ThoughtDigital, and with it ThoughtDigital's publish and subscribe technology, which SOA Software will integrate with its existing product line to offer complete SOA governance for event-driven applications as well as the more traditional client-server archite

Designed to help enterprise align their business and technology efforts through governance.

AOL, BEA Systems, Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton, Computer Associates, Entrust, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Neustar, Nokia, Novell, Oracle, RSA Security, SAP, Sun Microsystems, and others advance standard for single sign-on.

PEAK achieved strenuous Zebra certification by showing knowledge of in-depth training, dedicated XML/RFID integration resources, and technical proficiency.

It's unlikely that SQL and relational based applications will disappear in the future just because of the rising importance of the XQuery language, Jonathan Bruce told SYS-CON.TV (http://sys-con.tv). 'The relational model remains a highly optimized model for data manipulation and appli

Altova announced general availability of Altova software version 2005 release 3 (v2005r3), which features several significant enhancements to MapForce 2005, including expanded support for Electronic Data Integration (EDI) standards.

Although some folks were predicting a 'bloodbath,' the App Server Shoot-Out at Web Services Edge 2005 in Boston did not result in any serious injuries. Instead, Anne Thomas Manes, VP and Research Director at Burton Group, brought together representatives from a wide assortment of appli

ePath Learning announced the release of ASAP Object Model (ASAP-OM) and ASAP Object Access (ASAP-OA), a high-level object model and a pattern-based, object query language for ePath Learning's ASAP product line.

BEA, Booz Allen Hamilton, Computer Associates, Entrust, Gluecode Software, IBM, Sun, and others advance open standard for secure information access control.

Certification of webMethods Fabric will improve supply chain and distribution channels by increasing interoperability between software providers.

Stylus Studio continues advancing XML with Release 2 of Stylus Studio 6 Home Edition, the most reasonably priced XML IDE on the market.