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Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 Working Drafts Published
3/29/2004
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The Web Services Description Working Group has updated two Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Message Patterns. WSDL is a model and XML format for describing network services. The drafts enable abstract functionality and concrete details, and define sequence, cardinality and criteria for conformant processors.
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SVG Profiles Version 1.2 Working Draft Published
3/29/2004
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The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released the second Working Draft of Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic, Version 1.2. The draft defines two mobile profiles of SVG 1.2: SVG Tiny 1.2 is suitable for cellphones, and SVG Basic 1.2 is written for PDAs.
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XPath Basics: Identifying Nodes and Selections in XML Data
3/29/2004
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XML data is becoming more prevalent as more businesses and systems become integrated over the Web. Happily, XML itself becomes easier to work with in every release of the .NET Framework and Microsoft SQL Server. The upcoming release of .NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 (code-named Yukon) next year is no exception. To work effectively with XML, however, you need to get comfortable with a number of related XML technologies, including XML Schema, XPath, XSLT, and - eventually - XQuery. This article focuses on the basic syntax of XPath. XPath is particularly important because many of the other XML technologies (including XSLT, XPointer, and XQuery) use XPath as the means to identify nodes and selections within XML data.
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ISO Approves ebXML OASIS Standards
3/29/2004
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The International Standards Organization (IS0) has approved a suite of four ebXML OASIS Standards that enable enterprises in any industry, of any size, anywhere in the world to conduct business over the Internet. The submissions from OASIS will be published as ISO technical specifications, ISO/TS 15000.
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Creating Web Services, Part 2: Managing your SOAP messages with JAX-RPC handlers
3/29/2004
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The first article of this series looked at the APIs necessary to wrap a Java class so that it could send and receive SOAP messages, by taking a Java class, EmpImpl.java, containing a JDBC database query of an employee table, and publishing and consuming it, using JAX-RPC. Now we focus on what is often called out-of-band message processing, using a powerful feature of JAX-RPC called handler classes, which let developers preprocess and postprocess SOAP messages so that specific actions can be taken independently of the SOAP message processing.
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SQL in, XML out
3/29/2004
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New SQL/XML functions provide a standards-based bridge between relational data and XML. For decades businesses have been pouring their data into relational databases. If you're trading data with another business, however, it's more and more likely that you'll need to pull data out of your relational database and format that data as XML before transmitting it to your business partner. Oracle9i Database implements a number of standards-based functions enabling you to query relational data and return XML documents. These functions collectively fall under the heading of SQL/XML, sometimes referred to as SQLX. SQL/XML is now an emerging part (Part 14, to be precise) of the ANSI/ISO SQL standard and is on track to be published as an ISO/IEC standard later this year. The SQL/XML standard has broad industry support; major database vendors involved in the effort to define the SQL/XML standard include IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Sybase.
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PolarLake appoints Director, North America
3/28/2004
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PolarLake(tm), a leader in standards based incremental integration, provides a complete suite of products for implementing XML and Web Services-based solutions, including those based on the Enterprise Service Bus architecture. PolarLake's products deliver rapid Return on Investment by focusing on solving high value business problems with a standards based approach capable of evolving and expanding to address the longer term objectives of the organization. PolarLake™ today announced the appointment of Peter Melroy as Director of its North American office, located in New York City.
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Overview of Native XML Web Services for Microsoft SQL Server 2005
3/25/2004
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Get an overview of how to set up and use XML Web Services using SOAP/HTTP inside SQL Server 2005 (formerly known as "Yukon"). Illustrative examples are included. To get the most from this paper, you should have a basic understanding of Web service technologies including HTTP, SOAP, and WSDL.
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WS Choreography Model Overview Working Draft Published
3/25/2004
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The Web Services Choreography Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the WS Choreography Model Overview. The Working Group is defining a choreography definition language for coordinating interactions among Web services and their users.
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Java/.NET Interoperability with the Microsoft.com Web Service
3/25/2004
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This article covers interoperability between the Microsoft.com Web service, built with Web Services Enhancements 1.0 SP1 for Microsoft .NET, and a Java client. See how the WS-Security specification and implementation can be used to validate a Web service call from Java to Microsoft .NET. GLUE 4.1.2 Professional from webMethods will be used to enable WS-Security functionality for the Java client.
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XSL Formatter V3.1 for Windows/Solaris/Linux released
3/25/2004
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V3 is a brand new formatting engine that has been developed to provide the ability to format a very large document at significantly faster speeds. XSL Formatter V3.1 offers all the features (GUI, support for over 50 languages, PDF generation), W3C compliance, extensions and formatting capabilities of our previous Version 2.5 plus the significantly enhanced performance, unlimited document size and SVG support . In addition V3.1 offers vector support for EMF and WMF, CMYK support, new output capabilities and numerous other enhancements. With V3.1 a customer can now have all the advantages of V3 and V2.5 in one.
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goal:technology integrates with Corebank to provide new retail banking demonstration software
3/24/2004
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Focus Solutions, the creator of goal:technology – a leading XML data capture technology, and Fidelity Information Services (Fidelity), a division of Fidelity National Financial, have teamed up to provide an e-business software demonstration for the global retail banking market. goal:technology has provided a demonstration interface to Fidelity’s Corebank solution, an integrated set of banking components that provides continuous real-time processing, enabling a financial services organisation to adjust its business activities to reflect the constant shifts in market focus.
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Ephox's Leading Web Authoring Solutions Boast Major New Enhancements
3/24/2004
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Ephox (www.ephox.com) today introduced major enhancements to their market leading browser-based authoring software products – EditLive! for Windows 3.0 and EditLive! for Java 3.0. With these releases, Ephox further enables non-technical users to easily contribute content to content management systems and other content-driven applications. Ephox’s powerful authoring solutions are deployed in areas, such as Website management or Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, where the creation and ongoing maintenance of content is key business issue.
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Bob DuCharme on XSLT's tunneled variables.
3/24/2004
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While coding for a large, complex stylesheet project at work last year, I wanted to reuse code that I had already written elsewhere in the same template rule. Like a good little programmer, I resisted the temptation to copy the old code and paste it in the location I was working on; instead, I moved the code to be shared into a named template and called the template rule from the two locations.
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Dale Waldt on growing XML usage in content and records management
3/24/2004
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The Association for Applied Interactive Multimedia (AIIM) CMS conference and exposition was held in conjunction with the OnDemand conference from March 8 to 10 in New York City. Record attendance at both the exposition and the conference itself was reported by organizers, AIIM International and CAP Ventures. More than 33,000 people from around the world participated in the show, which focuses on document and records management processes and technology, with a growing undercurrent of XML related topics.
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Create and consume XML-RPC, SOAP and REST web services with PHP
3/24/2004
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Web services are widely supported by all the major technology vendors and organizations including IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and the W3C. Millions of dollars have been invested in the development of this technology. Web services allow you to share data across many platforms and hardware configurations. For example, you can create a Java web service and someone else can consume it using a .NET client without having to learn one line of Java code.
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VoiceXML 2.0 and Speech Recognition Grammar Are W3C Recommendations
3/24/2004
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The World Wide Web Consortium today released two W3C Recommendations written for the world's estimated two billion fixed line and mobile phones. The Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0 uses XML to bring speech, touch-tone input, digitized audio, recording and computer-human conversations to the Web from any telephone. The Speech Recognition Grammar Specification Version 1.0 is key to VoiceXML's support for speech recognition, and is used by developers to describe end-users' responses to spoken prompts.
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VoiceXML 2.1 Working Draft Published
3/24/2004
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The Voice Browser Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1. Fully backwards-compatible with VoiceXML 2.0, the draft's purpose is to standardize eight additional features implemented by VoiceXML platforms.
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XML Schema Second Edition Is a Proposed Edited Recommendation
3/24/2004
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The XML Schema Working Group has released a Proposed Edited Recommendation for XML Schema Second Edition in three parts: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Structures, Part 2: Datatypes. The second edition is not a new version; its purpose is to correct errors in the XML Schema Recommendation. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies and the structure of XML documents using those vocabularies, using a modular approach well-suited to distributed applications.
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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2 Working Draft Published
3/24/2004
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The SVG Working Group has released the sixth public Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2. The SVG language delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML.
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Cape Clear Software Simplifies SOA Development with Free Editor
3/24/2004
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Cape Clear Software has today announced a free service-oriented architecture (SOA) editor. The SOA Editor provides programmers with a graphical environment that simplifies the creation of standards-based Web Services, which can be deployed into an SOA-based architecture. The SOA Editor offers easy-to-use tools for building services, including automated wizards for common development tasks, support for Web Services standards, tools for testing code, support for XML Schema, and detailed documentation to help programmers get up and running quickly. The SOA Editor is available for download immediately.
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Ensure portable trust with SAML: The objectives, architecture, and basic concepts of Security Assertion Markup Language
3/24/2004
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The Security Assertion Markup Language, or SAML, addresses the long-felt need to provide a mechanism that transfers information about entities between various cooperating domains without the need for those domains to lose the ownership of that information. The information exchanged could be assertions related to a subject or authentication information. This is also known as single sign-on.
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Describe open source projects with XML, Part 2: Keep project information up-to-date with the DOAP vocabulary
3/24/2004
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Edd Dumbill continues the development of a vocabulary for describing open source software projects, looking at existing software registries and examining the problem of constraining property values.
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SAX dot NET
3/24/2004
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SAX dot NET is a C# port of the original Java based SAX API specifications. When compiled into a .NET assembly it becomes available to the other .NET languages as well.
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Sarvega Appliance Inspects XML Traffic
3/24/2004
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Until recently, the term "XML security" essentially has been used interchangeably with "Web services security." Because XML is the basis for Web services, many vendors and enterprises have treated the two as one. But one vendor, Sarvega Inc., is hoping to change that perception with its Guardian Gateway XML security appliance, which it unveiled this week. Although the appliance includes support for all of the existing Web services security standards, such as WS-Security, SAML and XML Dsig, it also is capable of filtering incoming XML traffic to find sophisticated new attacks.
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