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Python SOAP libraries, Part 5: New developments for SOAPpy
4/18/2004
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As with its sister project, ZSI, SOAPpy has enjoyed a recent increase in activity and is now in version 0.11.3. This version includes WSDL support and many other improvements. Uche Ogbuji and Scott Archer try out this new version with the same complex Web service they tried accessing with ZSI 1.4.1 and ran into a different set of difficulties.
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Visio schemas link data in diagrams
4/18/2004
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Microsoft has released documentation that allows corporate and third-party developers to take full advantage of the XML-based schemas, called DatadiagramML, in its Office Visio diagramming tool. The move, announced last week, will make it significantly easier for users to access information residing in their Visio diagrams and to share that information with server-based CRM and ERP applications from companies such as SAP and PeopleSoft. This makes it easier for corporate users to integrate that data into their core business processes, company officials said.
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Microsoft Continues Commitment to Open and Royalty-Free XML Schemas
4/16/2004
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Microsoft Corp. today announced the addition of the XML schema used by Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003, DataDiagramML, to the Microsoft Open and Royalty-Free Office 2003 XML reference schema program announced in November 2003. Through the Microsoft documentation and a royalty-free license, customers and partners can take advantage of the XML schema in its diagramming and data visualization tool. The availability of the Visio schema builds on Microsoft's commitment to XML by providing a complete and W3C-compliant description of the Visio Extensible Markup Language (XML) file format, enabling organizations to access information captured in their Visio diagrams and use it with other XML-enabled applications, such as customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, as part of their business processes. While Microsoft is providing this documentation in an effort to aid solution providers and in-house developers who want to create Visio solutions, some early adopters already have begun developing solutions with Visio 2003, and have touted DataDiagramML's usefulness in creating data visualization solutions.
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Q&A: Microsoft Announces Availability of XML Schema for Microsoft Office Visio 2003
4/15/2004
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Microsoft today announced the addition of the Microsoft Office Visio 2003 XML Reference Schema to its open and royalty-free documentation and license program that was initially unveiled in November 2003. Microsoft Office Visio 2003 is the diagramming and data visualization tool in Microsoft Office 2003. Microsoft is providing the complete description of the Visio Extensible Markup Language (XML) file format to enable organizations to access information captures in their Visio diagrams and to integrate with other XML-enabled applications, such as customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Extensive support of XML in the Microsoft Office suite will allow Office applications to create, view and edit structured data stored in disparate systems.
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Microsoft opens up Visio schemas
4/15/2004
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Microsoft on Thursday announced it has released documentation that allows corporate and third-party developers to take full advantage of the XML-based schemas, called DatadiagramML, in its Office Visio diagramming tool. The move will make it significantly easier for users to access information residing in their Visio diagrams and to share that information with server-based CRM and ERP applications from companies such as SAP and PeopleSoft. This makes it easier for corporate users to integrate that data into their core business processes, company officials believe.
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W3C Math Activity Launched
4/15/2004
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W3C announced the relaunch of the Math Activity. The W3C Membership approved the Math Interest Group and its charter. The group will maintain the MathML W3C Recommendation and continue its task of facilitating the use of mathematics on the Web, for use in science, technology and education. Participation is open to W3C Members.
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Efficient Techniques for Modifying Large XML Files
4/15/2004
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Dare Obasanjo shows two techniques for efficiently updating or modifying large XML files such as log files and database dumps.
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BizTalk Server 2004 Management Pack for MOM
4/14/2004
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The BizTalk Server 2004 Management Pack is a set of instructions that define how to monitor and manage BizTalk Server 2004. This management pack enables you to:
- Identify and measure the health of the system.
- Monitor critical components and services.
- Address and correct issues with actionable responses.
- Understand when to escalate issues.
- Analyze and troubleshoot the data and information received from BizTalk Server 2004.
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Jean-Luc David shows how to create mobile content with XHTML
4/14/2004
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Creating unified solutions has always been a challenge in the mobile space. Until recently the industry has been solidly divided: all mobile providers aggressively pushed their own proprietary platforms and languages. For example, Nokia and Openwave developed WML and WAP for consumption in North America. In 1999, NTT DoCoMo launched the popular i-Mode service in Japan based on Compact HTML. Mobile developers had to become specialists, learning the intricacies of each platform. They also had to learn to create content compatible with hundreds of devices. Development took weeks and months and projects were very expensive to implement.
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Joe Gregorio implements an Atom-enabled Wiki
4/14/2004
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In my last article I covered the changes from version 7 to version 8 of the draft AtomAPI. Now the latest version of the AtomAPI is version 9 which adds support for SOAP. This change, and its impact on API implementers, will be covered in a future article. In this article I'm going to build a simple implementation of the AtomAPI.
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Explains how web services might learn about trust from P2P
4/14/2004
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In last week's article ("From P2P to Web Services: Identification and Addressing"), I examined the ways in which the development of web services might learn some lessons from the peer-to-peer phenomenon of a few years ago. I focused on identification and addressing. In this article I conclude my examination by focusing on trust.
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All About Blogs and RSS
4/13/2004
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What is blogging all about?
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Build this XAML Rendering Engine for Your .NET Apps Today
4/13/2004
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Find out how to take advantage of XAML in your .NET applications today by building this extensible XAML rendering engine that accepts a XAML file describing a UI, and outputs .NET objects.
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XInclude Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation
4/13/2004
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XInclude introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML documents (information sets) using existing XML constructs—elements, attributes and URI references.
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GRDDL Coordination Group Note Published
4/13/2004
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Through joint efforts, the RDF in XHTML task force of the Semantic Web Coordination Group and the HTML Working Group has published a Coordination Group Note. Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL) is a mechanism for encoding RDF statements in XHTML and XML to be extracted by programs such as XSLT transformations.
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Compress XML files for efficient transmission
4/13/2004
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Binary XML has generated a lot of talk, and one of the motivators is the need for a less verbose transfer format, especially for use with Web services. One solution that is already at hand is data compression. This tip shows you how to use compression to prepare XML for transmission over Web services.
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Standardize annotations with Web services
4/13/2004
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Annotation is the process of associating metadata with data. This article presents a Web services API intended as an industry standard for client-server systems designed to facilitate the structured annotation of heterogeneous data. The author presents the goals of the Annotation Web services API and then discusses how those goals motivate the data model around which the API operates. The author also discusses 29 methods that comprise the API including two examples of possible sequences of API calls to create and retrieve annotations.
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Invoke native code from within WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4/13/2004
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This article describes an alternate approach to Java Native Interface (JNI) for calling native applications and shared libraries from within the IBM® WebSphere® Studio Application Developer (Application Developer) platform. In the approach, the authors propose to wrap native code as a Web service and to run that service within the context of an Axis C++ engine running inside of an Apache Web server. By using this method, you can maintain your naming conventions and separate the execution of native code from the Application Developer platform to provide a more reliable and isolated operating environment.
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Bloghorn: A Blog Reader Built in XAML
4/13/2004
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The next version of the Microsoft Windows® operating system, code named "Longhorn", contains an exciting new technology called XAML, which is an acronym for the "eXtensible Application Markup Language". XAML (pronounced zam-el) allows you to specify the user interface portion of your Windows® applications using markup to represent the usual items in an application, such as controls, text, hyperlinks, images, etc. XAML itself is built on top of a technology named Avalon, which brings a compositing, vector-based rendering engine to the Windows desktop.
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xml:id Working Draft Published
4/9/2004
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The XML Core Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of xml:id Version 1.0. The specification introduces a predefined attribute name that can always be treated as an ID and hence can always be recognized.
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Web services security spec locked down
4/8/2004
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A very anticipated Web services specification has been approved as an industry standard, paving the way for broader usage of Web services protocols in mainstream business applications. The Web Services Security, or WS-Security, technical committee within the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) on Wednesday said several security-related technical specifications have been accepted by the group as standards. Now that the Web services security specifications are ratified, software and security companies can incorporate support for them into commercial products.
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OASIS to Advance E-Business Architecture
4/8/2004
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E-business standards consortium OASIS, which stands for the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, on Wednesday announced its plans to further develop an electronic business architecture. The namesake Electronic Business Service Oriented Architecture, or ebSOA, will build on ebXML and other Web services technology for its business architecture. ebXML, started by OASIS and another standards body, UN/CEFACT [the United Na-tions Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business], is designed to enable businesses to transact using XML-based messages. The emerging standard provides an infrastructure for data communication interoperability, a semantics framework, registry and repository that helps companies find each other electronically and agree to business.
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Patent filings meet XML
4/8/2004
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The major patent organizations all have the dual goal of making electronic patent filing easy and making such filings compatible from one office to another. XML is the leading technology behind these efforts and a great deal of thought and work has gone into XML formats for patent filing. In this column, Uche Ogbuji examines the background of XML patent e-filing and chats with patent expert Carl Oppedahl about the practicalities of XML filings.
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Consuming ADO.NET DataSets in the Microsoft Office System
4/8/2004
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Create a vital link between Office solutions and ADO.NET using COM interoperability and the new XML features of the Microsoft Office System.
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DOM Level 3 Core and Load and Save Are W3C Recommendations
4/8/2004
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The World Wide Web Consortium today released two Document Object Model (DOM) specifications as W3C Recommendations. With DOM Level 3 Core, software developers and script authors manipulate the content, structure and style of Web documents. DOM Level 3 Load and Save allows programs and scripts to load, serialize and filter document contents.
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