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Technology News [November 2001]
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Performance testing SOAP-based applications: Is your Web service production-ready?
[November 30, 2001]
SOAP is a boon in the quest for interoperability between servers -- but it is still a challenge to deliver SOAP-based solutions which perform well in production environments. Frank Cohen offers tips on overcoming scalability problems, and introduces a free open-source utility to proof performance in SOAP-based Web services.
Borland is participating in the SOAPBuilders Interoperability Lab "Round 2".
[November 30, 2001]
Borland is participating in SOAP interoperability testing with vendors providing other SOAP protocol implementations like Apache SOAP, EasySoap++, GLUE, .NET, SOAP Lite, and others. We have put up a Delphi-based SOAP server machine that everyone is welcome to test.
UDDI - The Weather Report: The Outlook is Mixed
[November 29, 2001]
Over the next few years many tens, possibly hundreds, of thousands of Web Services will be made available across the world. Many of these will find their way onto the UDDI registry, a registry which when it delivers on all of its promises will revolutionize the way we do business with others by allowing us to search in a systematic way for help, contacts and functionality (Web Services) that other companies supply.
Evan Lenz of XYZFind Corp. announces TransQuery
[November 28, 2001]
TransQuery comprises a small, flexible set of XSLT conventions and processing model constraints that enable the use of XSLT as a query language over multiple XML documents. It is an interoperability specification for XML databases, allowing them to use a standard XML query language today--the W3C-recommended XSLT.
XMCL introduces XML to media content
[November 26, 2001]
Streaming media is a cornerstone of the future entertainment industry. Several media giants have teamed up to create the eXtensible Media Commerce Language (XMCL)—a new open standard being developed to help the business of online media commerce, the most high-profile sector purchasing music and video online. Here’s a look at the goals and features of XMCL.
What's New in MSXML 4.0
[November 26, 2001]
The Microsoft® XML Parser (MSXML) 4.0 is full of new fea-tures and functionality related to XML Schema and SAX. XML Schema Definition (XSD) validation and reflection are the most significant of these, but there are many others that deserve attention as well. So even if you're still living in the reality of the "unmanaged" world, MSXML is full of improvements that will help you enhance your XML-based applications today.
XML dominates database file formats
[November 26, 2001]
With Oracle's annual OpenWorld conference on the horizon, database vendors are preparing for battle once again. This time around, the big three -- IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft -- are brandishing XML as the not-so secret weapon for making their databases faster and using it to anchor Web services. Microsoft is readying its charge into the enterprise-class arena with the forthcoming version of SQL Server, code-named Yukon. Yukon is being hailed as an XML-savvy, back-end engine for Microsoft's .Net Web services initiative.
Data Encoding or Data 'n Coding? (Web Services need to relate XML and programming language types)
[November 26, 2001]
One key to designing a web service is determining what information a client and server will pass back and forth on the wire. This process has two stages. First, you need to develop an abstract notion of what data needs to be exchanged, e.g., an Invoice, an Itinerary, etc. Then you need to design a concrete XML representation of that abstract data; should a customer's name be an element or an attribute. There are two very different ways to accomplish the second step. One is to focus on the structure of the XML itself and to write a schema definition by hand. The other is to infer the structure of the XML from an existing programmatic data type, like a structure or a class.
Connecting Web Services: IBM and Java to VBScript and Microsoft
[November 26, 2001]
Zoran Zaev builds a Web Service in Java using IBM Web Services Toolkit, and then calls it from VBScript. This article shows the kinds of problems that you can run into as you use VBScript to call Java-based services.
XrML, a Digital Rights Management XML flavour, is to become independent
[November 26, 2001]
XrML candidates as industry standard as main proponents, Microsoft and Xerox, let go of control and launch developers kit. ContentGuard is launching version 2.0 of its eXtensible rights Markup Language (XrML), and is releasing a Software Developer's Kit to enable developers to build XrML-based Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions quickly and easily.
Web services directory put to the test
[November 21, 2001]
The Universal Business Language (UBL) is a new effort to standardize XML business documents, being spearheaded by Jon Bosak. In this interview, Bosak describes UBL's aims and its relationship to ebXML.
COM+ Web Services: The Check Box Route to XML Web Services
[November 21, 2001]
COM+ Web Services adds features that integrate with Microsoft .NET remoting to provide check box activation of XML Web service publication via SOAP for COM+ components. This document includes several examples and walkthroughs covering basic interoperability, configuration, and deployment of managed and unmanaged COM+ components published as XML Web services on Microsoft Windows .NET Server and Microsoft Windows XP Professional.
High Hopes for the Universal Business Language
[November 11, 2001]
Four major software makers will launch an updated test version of a public Web services directory that lets businesses list and find online services.
Commentary: XML in the financial industry
[November 08, 2001]
"XML" comprises many competing or overlapping standards, and each industry is fighting its own XML standards battle. Financial services offers an example of how difficult the battle can be.
Web Services Toolkit Update
[November 08, 2001]
WS-Inspection, WebSphere 4.0 support, HTTPR demo, XKMS prototype, Web Services for Browser, run-time and tooling enhancements, HTTP proxy support, more documentation.
What is the Web Services Toolkit?
Web Services ToolKit is a software development kit that includes a run-time environment, a demo, and examples to aid in designing and executing Web service applications that can automatically find one another and collaborate in business transactions without additional programming or human intervention. Simple examples of Web services are provided, as well as demonstrations of how some of the emerging technology standards, such as SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL, work together.
Service Registry Proxy: A higher-level API
[November 08, 2001]
In order to provide additional tools to the Web services developer, this article discusses a new API -- the Service Registry Proxy, or SRP -- which helps to raise the abstraction level during application development and promotes seamless integration between UDDI and WSDL elements.
The release of the UDDI4J API (see Resources for links to this and other references made in this article) enabled the creation of UDDI-aware applications, making the publish, unpublish and find operations available from an open-source API.
Introduction to Native XML Databases
[November 4, 2001]
Native XML databases are an important part of the emerging XML software infrastructure. This article explains their features, strengths and weaknesses.
Native XML Databases Listing
DOM Level 3 XPath Working Draft Published
[November 04, 2001]
The DOM Working Group has released an updated
Working Draft of the "Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath
Specification." The draft provides simple functionalities to access a
DOM tree using XPath 1.0.
 Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0 Published [November 02]
The VoiceXML Forum announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It marks the VoiceXML Forum's release of the trademark to the public domain. The signing of the MOU also coincides with the W3C release of the first Public Working Draft of VoiceXML version 2.0.
Related news:
Two new KB Articles [November 01]
HOW TO: Navigate XML with the XPathNavigator Class Using Visual Basic .NET
HOW TO: Query XML with an XPath Expression Using Visual Basic .NET
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