Conference Consensus: Web
Services Taking Over the
IT World Web Services Edge West
and XMLEdge 2001 opened
for business October 22
with a series of sessions
and tutorials. Five
tracks were maintained
throughout the
conference. The
conference proper began
on Tuesday, October 23,
with a keyn... Dec. 3, 2001 Reads: 11,828 |
XML and Security As XML becomes the de
facto format for
businesses to communicate
over the Internet, the
need for security comes
to the fore. Digital
security has always been
about the compromise
between convenience and
peace of mind. This holds
true for XML also. Dec. 3, 2001 Reads: 8,836 Replies: 1 |
Private UDDI Registries This article is based on
the UDDI chapter in
Building Web Services, to
be released this month.
It appears here in
slightly different form
by permission of the
publisher, Sams.
Contributors to the book
are Doug Davis, Steve
Graham,... Dec. 3, 2001 Reads: 13,634 |
Shedding a Little Light
on XML Wouldn't it be great to
have something named
after you? Up to now I've
had no luck. Off the top
of my head, the only way
for this to happen is to
(1) have children, (2)
invent a lifesaving
technique like the
Heimlich maneuver, (3)
... Dec. 3, 2001 Reads: 8,237 |
The Next-Gen User
Interface After months of hype,
developers are finally
sinking their teeth into
the competing new
initiatives by
powerhouses Microsoft and
Sun - MS .NET and Sun
One. A beta version of
.NET has been available
on Microsoft's Web site
since Ma... Dec. 3, 2001 Reads: 8,658 Replies: 5 |
Introduction to SAX Path
and Jaxen The W3C (http://w3c.org/)
defined XML as a data
model. Soon thereafter,
work was started to
define XPath, the
language for addressing
parts of an XML document.
XPath isn't a technology
for performing queries
upon an XML document -
... Dec. 3, 2001 Reads: 12,832 |
XSL Extensions and
Java... The element extension
mechanism allows
namespaces to be
designated as extension
namespaces. When a
namespace is thus
designated and an element
with a name from that
namespace occurs in a
template, the element is
treated as an inst... Dec. 3, 2001 Reads: 9,845 |
How to Transform Static
Data Descriptors for
Audio and Images on the
Web Synchronized Multimedia
Integration Language - or
SMIL, pronounced smile -
is an XML application and
currently a W3C
recommendation. The basic
idea of SMIL is to give
media components - text,
images, audio, video, and
the like - a U... Dec. 3, 2001 Reads: 10,582 |
Using the IBM XML
Security Suite With Web services moving
to the forefront at a
very rapid pace,
components will share
their data. SOAP, an XML
derivative, will be used
to exchange data between
the services, and XML is
the glue that will hold
the e-commerce and
W... Dec. 3, 2001 Reads: 7,981 Replies: 1 |
Everything You Need to
Know about XML What an excellent little
book! In a scant 96
pages, Eckstein and
Casabianca have managed
to present everything you
need to know to get up
and running with XML.
After the obligatory
review of what XML is and
why it's needed, as well ... Dec. 3, 2001 Reads: 6,655 |
RDBMS XML Extraction with
SQLJ and Java Stored
Procedures Extracting data from a
relational database into
a DTD-validated XML file
has proved to be an
incredibly difficult
quandry for the
IT/IS/e-commerce
industry. While myriad
commercial solutions have
been offered, many still
lack the ... Dec. 3, 2001 Reads: 9,921 |
Ipedo XML Database 2.0 by
Ipedo, Inc. The advantages of XML as
a data storage and
transfer mechanism are
well known and almost
universally understood.
However, much of the data
that will be manipulated
with XML is currently
stored inside back-end
systems. XML tends to b... Dec. 3, 2001 Reads: 10,254 Replies: 3 |
These Requests are Really
Starting to Get Weird Kris Kringle's history is
kind of a mystery. He
didn't seem too
interested in giving us
much information on his
technical experience. We
know that he started
working in Russia, so
maybe he knows Cobol or
something. Regardless,
unl... Dec. 3, 2001 Reads: 6,003 |
Code Reuse: From Objects
to Components to Services Now that the age of
limitless optimism is
over and it's trendy to
be cynical, I hear many
Web services cynics
remark that there's
nothing new here. They're
just components. Been
there, done that, and in
fact we called it CORBA
(or... Dec. 3, 2001 Reads: 9,107 |
E-Business as Usual? I just got back from the
Web Services Edge/XMLEdge
conference hosted by
SYS-CON Media in Santa
Clara, California.
Although attendance was
lower than usual, this
wasn't unexpected and the
show was quite well
received by both vendors ... Dec. 3, 2001 Reads: 7,687 |
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