Eric Pascarello, an Ajax expert, is the co-author of Ajax in Action, the bestselling Ajax book in the market and the author of JavaScript: Your Visual Blueprint for Building Dynamic Web Pages (2nd edition). Eric is the moderator of the HTML and JavaScript forum at JavaRanch and maintai

I'm the 'tech chair' of SYS-CON's 10th annual SOA and WebServices conference that will take place on June 5-6 in New York City. Last week I've invited Joel Spolsky to make a keynote speech at this event. Guess what, Joel has accepted my invitation! If you have a chance to attend this t

Gridlogix, a creator of XML Web Services-based integration solutions, announced the completion of the enterprise-wide integrated network for the eBay Denver data center, one of several regional mission-critical operations.

SYS-CON Events (www.event s.sys-con.com)announced today that the commercial open source company SugarCRM will be one of the four platinum sponsors of the Enterprise Open Source Conferenceto take place June 5-6, 2006, in New York City.

Stylus Studio announced the immediate availability of Stylus Studio 2006 Release 2 XML Enterprise Edition, the latest version of its award-winning XML IDE. The new release provides powerful new XML tools and utilities to simplify XML data integration tasks faced by developers. Software

Reactivity, independent XML Gateway company and Systemation, provider of SOA and Web services enabling technology and services in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg (Benelux), announced that its entire suite of Reactivity XML Gateways are now available in Benelux through a new dist

Stylus Studio, which bills itself as the industry-leading provider of XML development tools and data integration components for XML and legacy data integration, has announced the availability of a new groundbreaking video tutorial entitled: An Introduction to XML Schema Development wit

UModel 2006 presents a rich visual interface and trouble-free, advanced capabilities that help level the UML learning curve and enhance developer productivity by making software modeling easy and fun, the company says.

HostBridge Technology, the provider of HostBridge software for XML-enabling CICS,announced that CA has certified the HostBridge integration software as interoperable with Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom (Advantage CA-Ideal), enabling organizations to integrate Advantage CA-Ideal appl

When we need to store XML in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) we have to think of nonnative ways to store it, since the structure of XML does not fit the flat relations of the RDBMSs. Although some RDBMS vendors support XML storage and XQuery such as Oracle 10g (release

HTML forms are one of the best-known techniques for gathering data from a user and submitting that data to a server. However, HTML forms are only simple tools and don't natively support some of the features needed by current Web applications such as sophisticated data validation. Also,

The Codehaus XFire team has announced their 1.0 release. XFire is an open source Java SOAP framework built on a high performance, streaming XML model. XFire includes support for web service standards, an easy to use API, Spring integration, JBI support, and plugable bindings for POJOs,

Dr Michael Kay argues that developers shouldn't throw away flexibility and adaptability by writing applications that freeze the app's data structure into Java or C# classes, rather than keeping both things by writing the logic in high-level XML processing languages (notably XSLT and XQ

In this second article about service-oriented architecture (SOA), I offer a concrete plan, along with tips and insights, to help you build an effective SOA roadmap, and to help ensure the success of your SOA initiative.

Web services have evolved from plain application-integration enablers to value-added stand-alone functionality providers such as getting a quote to a comprehensive business function like processing orders. Enterprises are exploiting this new revenue model by offering such business func

One of the business benefits organizations strive to achieve by implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) or in utilizing Web services is the opportunity to reuse business components. Asset reuse is one of the core drivers of the SOA or Web service ROI calculation. Although le

The notion of building bridges to service providers and managing the interaction will become more commonplace in 2006 as we learn to accept that many services we leverage within an enterprise are services we may not host. The technology exists today. We need to define and refine our ap

MetaMatrix announced MetaMatrix Dimension 5, a new product for data service design and execution, that helps application teams quickly make relational and file-based data available as XML schema-compliant Web services for service oriented architecture (SOA)-based applications. In addit

Most organizations today are moving steadily toward implementing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for standards-based software interoperability. However, SOA projects are significantly delayed or fail due to the challenges of making data accessible and interoperable. With Web serv

Typically when we think about security for a Web service, our focus is on how to protect it from unauthorized and malicious users. Thus, we tend to concentrate on such things as authentication of the requestor, checking to see that the requestor is authorized to access the service, val

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has emerged as a key strategy for IT and line-of-business executives to jointly enhance business performance and agility in today's intense corporate climate. Using the SOA methodology, business applications are built as an assembly of loosely couple

DocSoft says its new enterprise search technology, called 'Element' unleashes the power of structured data within a company's repository. With Element as a plug-n-play addition to a company's network, users will be able to search for stored data across the network 'smarter,' thus more

'Led by The Father of 'AJAX' himself, the charismatic Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path, 'Real-World AJAX' has one overriding organizing principle: its aim is to make sure that delegates fortunate enough to secure themselves a place - before all seats are sold out - will leave the s

Computer security specialist Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford's character) is a top executive who has built his career on designing top anti-theft computer systems in the industry. His job provides his family a comfortable life. But there's a vulnerability in Jack's system that he has not

Stylus Studio has announced the availability of what it calls a new groundbreaking video tutorial, 'Learn Stylus Studio in 6 minutes!' The online video demonstration provides a comprehensive overview of all award-winning XML productivity tools included in Stylus Studio.

Nexaweb has been seeing rapid RIA adoption in Japan, particularly in the financial industry, and so has entered into a strategic alliance with Hitachi Systems and Services, Ltd. (Hitachi Systems), one of the largest providers of systems integration services in Japan.

SYS-CON Media has announced the results of its 10th annual 'Readers' Choice Awards' for best technologies, products and tools in the SOA, Web Services, Java, .NET, Linux, ColdFusion, Macromedia MX and XML spaces.

DataDirect, whose own branded XQuery product is an XQuery implementation for applications that need to process both XML and relational data sources, has announced the availability of a new interview with XQuery guru and co-inventor, Jonathan Robie.

Every major chip manufacturer has delivered or announced a roadmap for multicore chips that have multiple CPUs on the same piece of silicon. Systems developers are now designing these chips into their entire product line. For Java platform developers, Symmetric Multiprocessing Systems

Ziff Davis announced today the launch of SmartCompany.com, adding to its growing portfolio of over 50 consumer and enterprise technology websites. SmartCompany.com provides entrepreneurs, owners and technology professionals at small businesses with timely, targeted information about th

Oracle today announced the latest releases of Oracle(R) Internal Controls Manager and Oracle Financial Consolidation Hub, part of the Oracle E-Business Suite. The new versions will help to ensure the quality and transparency of financial information across the enterprise by integrati

There is still enough hype around service-oriented architecture (SOA) that it's difficult to get a handle on the realities of implementation. While most IT managers now understand what an SOA can do for IT, many still need help figuring out how to get started. New questions about manag

Ajax is an odd beast, because it gives a very rich user experience when compared to a traditional web page (Yakov writes wonderfully about this at http://java.sys-con.com/r ead/163232.htm), however apart from that it?s hard to figure out what is so great about it. Good technology wins i

If you're old enough, you probably remember the whole episode with Al Haig in the White House, saying 'I'm in charge here' during the period when Reagan was shot. He wasn't really, but it's a good illustration of the concept of confusion, and how different people react to situations. H

IBM today announced availability of newreleases of its core IBM® Workplace(TM) products, including WorkplaceCollaboration Services 2.6, Workplace Managed Client(TM) 2.6, WorkplaceForms(TM) 2.6 and Workplace Designer 2.6. The 2.6 versions of theseproducts include more than 50 new featu

webMethods, Inc. , a leading business integration and optimization software company, today announced the appointment of Marc Breissinger to the position of chief technology officer (CTO), effective immediately. In his new capacity, he will serve as a member of the company's executive

Zimbra (http://www.zimbra.com/), a leader in open source, next-generation collaboration and messaging, today introduced Zimlets, a mechanism for integrating the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) with third-party information systems and content.

Do you love XML? Have you been using XML with SQL Server? Many people have, starting way back when with SQL Server 7.0. Back then, there was no support for XML in the database, so we had to write external programs to convert the relational data into an XML format. This was time-consumi

The Deputy Treasurer and Budget Officer of New York's Tioga County has gone on record as to the secret behind ithe county's ability to streamline the distribution of information and eliminate the potential for human errors as it processes a wide variety of forms for human resource and

Skyway Software, the award winning provider ofSOA design and delivery solutions, announced today that Bill Irwin is nowtaking on the role of Vice President of Sales. With more than 18 yearsexperience in sales and sales management positions in high technology,Irwin is now responsible f