After publicly retracting the results of J2EE versus .NET benchmark tests it conducted back in 2002, The Middleware Company (TMC) bravely ventured recently to revisit this minefield. From IBM's point of view, according to an internal document obtained today by WebSphere Journal, TMC ha

A leading medical publisher has chosen XyEnterprise's XML-based software, to take the company's distributed content and format it. In this manner, information can reach its clients much faster, says the company, and revenue increases can be realized as well.

Patch 3 of NeoOffice/J, described by XML pioneer Tim Bray as 'the Mac port of OpenOffice with the X-Windows UI switched out and Cocoa switched in' makes - in Bray's view - all the difference, by moving the NeoOfficeJ menus to the top of the screen where they belong.

Microsoft's Derek Denny-Brown explores the various issues he has with the XML 1.0 specification, including whitespace, allowed characters, and lastly XML Namespaces - 'which pushes an immense burden of complexity onto the APIs and XML reader/writer implementations,' argues Denny-Brown.

Small and medium-sized businesses are being offered ShopSite 7.1. This version of the popular shopping cart Web service provides security measures in keeping with modern hacking methods. Furthermore, clients gain more control when retooling their online sites with new XML support and p

'SAP is now delighted to be able to participate in the application server shootout and demonstrate the power of SAP Web Application Server as a development and runtime platform for enterprise-scale Java applications,' said SAP's Christopher Hearn as the news was announced.

Open source Web services provider Montag has released version 0.6 of its Java-based system for XML database interaction. This release, which is functional but still in development, allows every native XML database that provides a Java implementation of the XML:DB API, to communicate wi

Any business-savvy engineer knows that algorithm improvements come at a price: the engineer's time. But what about asking programmers to be a little more lazy? Warren MacEvoy chews over some of the technology issues of the day and offers his own suggestions.

This article looks in detail at how to generate XML data from your relational database. Although the examples were run on Oracle, very little of the code is Oracle specific. You can easily use all the ideas and examples presented here in other relational databases. We did this project

The way XML has been positioned over the last several years - namely, as some type of savior for companies that have invested in myriad systems with numerous incompatible data types - it makes you wonder why organizations aren't adopting any XML solution they can get their hands on.

SYS-CON Media today announced further details of the 'Application Server Shoot-Out' due to take place at its upcoming cross-platform technology event, Web Services Edge 2005 East - International Web Services Conference & Expo (www.sys-con.com/edge) - in which leading application server

It remains to be seen whether or not Delaware Chancery Court Judge Leo Strine this week will side with Oracle and declare void PeopleSoft's poison-pill strategy designed to stave off the hostile takeover bid. Before then it may become moot; if Oracle ups its current $21 tender offer fo

Anticipating the changes that will beset enterprise systems, as result of new XSLT and XPath specifications, Altova has released updates for 2005, synchronized with these new mandates. As a result, Altova has the distinction of being the first company to include implementations in its

'Software is more complex than a cotton gin or whatever else you might typically invent in a bricks and mortar world,' argues Groklaw.net Editor Pamela Jones. 'Software and patents don't belong together,' Jones maintains.

Stylus Studio 6 XML Professional Edition ships today, the latest major release of the award-winning XML Integrated Development Environment (XML IDE) from Stylus Studio, a product from Progress Software Corporation.

This tutorial discusses the simpleType and complexType XML Schema structures and their corresponding representations in an XML document. XML Schema is used as the basis of an XML document structure, and some of the XML technologies, such as JAXB, are based on XML Schema.

There is no doubt that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML Schemas enjoy quite a success. They are used in many major software environments and are applied to many domains, from finance to the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

Organizations have found value in using XML for integration tasks within the enterprise and across businesses in information exchange projects. In this section, we describe several common cases where XML has proven valuable for integration.

Should emergency personnel and law enforcement be called to the scene of a suspected chemical warfare attack, the last thing these frontline workers will want to do is wrestle with incompatible IT systems. Therefore, the federal government is in the throes of linking databases scattere

Stylus Studio 6 XML Professional Edition ships today, the latest major release of the award-winning XML Integrated Development Environment (XML IDE) from Stylus Studio, a product from Progress Software Corporation.

These days Calvin Austin is one of the busiest people in the Java world: J2SE 5.0, that was also known as the 'Tiger' project, is being officially released today! JDJ's Yakov Fain was able to catch Austin, spec lead for Java 5.0, right before the plane from San Francisco to New York wh

Red Hat's vice president for open source affairs, Michael Tiemann, has said Sun needs to prove its devotion to the open source community, by releasing Java. According to Tiemann, the move is needed to stop Microsoft's .NET from advancing. Open sourced Java, he believes, will accelerate

After an OpenOffice team and a Microsoft team were invited to present to the European Commission on the relative merits of their XML-based office document formats, it looks as if 'the Open Office XML Format will probably become an ISO Standard,' according to Sun's Tim Bray.

Zeus Technology's flagship, next-generation Web services trafficking system utilizes XML to aid in routing decisions. Zeus Extensive Traffic Manager (ZXTM) alleviates the burden SSL-encryption and XML translation places on CPUs running in enterprise systems, by taking up support of the

Mark Logic announced that it has developed a means for enterprises to work with seemingly incompatible XML content. Using its Open Content Architecture (OCA) and leveraging benefits of a new Partner Network, customers now have the ability to work with data-centric content, which before

Spooked at the thought of an Oracle-PeopleSoft combination to the point of considering playing white knight, IBM has now allied directly with PeopleSoft, getting it to promise to standardize its applications on IBM's WebSphere middleware.

'I get confused by a lot of Sun's technology advertising and marketing,' writes Roger Strukhoff. But there are numerous reasons, he argues, not to give up on Sun - the company that famously grew 'from start-up mode to $1 billion in annual sales without spending one cent on advertising

Late Friday night, Scotland Yard released a statement officially confirming the arrest of a 20-year-old-man in connection with the hacking of Cisco's network that resulted in the theft of 800MB of its primary operating system. The code found its was onto servers in the Netherlands and

Abhi Talwalkar, the general manager of Intel's Enterprise Platform Group, was seen alive and well at the Intel Developer Forum Wednesday, the day after he publicly admitted during a Q&A that the company's precious multibillion-dollar Itanium chip wasn't meeting Intel's 'aggressive' int

The antitrust authorities have failed to prove their case requesting that the US District Court should block - on antitrust grounds - Oracle's proposed $7.7 billion hostile takeover bid of PeopleSoft. Shares of both companies rose yesterday, PeopleSoft's climbing about 15 percent to $2

For over a decade, Tim Bray, one of the prime movers of XML, managed the Oxford English Dictionary project at the University of Waterloo. That was from 1988 to 1999. During the end of his time there he launched one of the first public Web search engines (in 1995), coinvented XML 1.0, a

Not having kept, or being able to access, the right information at the right time is now a serious offence that puts the CEO and/or the CFO in jail for perjury, regardless of who in the organization may or may not have been to blame. Capgemini Group's Global CTO Andy Millholland report

'When we hear about short-term job losses that result from outsourcing to India and China, we also need to consider the long-term benefits of these nations developing into prime markets for U.S. exports,' says Dr. Adam Kolawa, the co-founder and CEO of Parasoft. Outsourcing actually of

In what one savvy commentator noted as being 'another milestone towards world peace in the Web services industry,' the WS-Eventing specification was republished yesterday with the addition of some major new co-authors - IBM, Sun and Computer Associates.

As US events such as COMDEX and CeBIT America get canceled, the equivalent IT mega-shows in Europe seem to be going from strength to strength, reports Fuat Kircaali directly from Istanbul, where CeBIT Eurasia opened earlier this week to more exhibitors, more attendees, and more foreign

There are some people who are passionate about the differences between 'free software' and 'open source.' I'm beginning to wonder if the difference matters. The term 'free software' came into use at about the same time that Richard Stallman quit his job at MIT, launched the GNU Project

This article demonstrates how we can integrate XSL-FO, XSLT, and JavaMail into our existing web-based applications. I show you how we can generate PDF reports for an application through the use of XSLT and XSL-FO embedded within the Java application. I also illustrate how the generated

The Data Center Markup Language (DCML) Organization announced that it is moving its operations and technical committees under care of OASIS. Through the move, the OASIS DCML Member Section is created. Access to OASIS' global member database is a very valuable tool that is put into the

The record profit made in connection with an IPO, namely the 698% rise on the first day of trading for VA Linux in December 1999, is a record which will probably stand for some time, says the New York Times in its look at the Google IPO, which it calls 'messy' before concluding 'But it

Google has acquired one of the foremost minds in modern i-technology, and it knows it. If the search colossus, or anyone else, is in any doubt, just read what he had to say recently about the bloated nature of full-blown Web services, versus the simplicity of XML over HTTP.