By Darryl K. Taft – The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Wednesday announced two tools for testing the interoperability of the WS-I Basic Profile.The new tools, called the Web Service Communication Monitor and the Web Service Profile Analyzer, come in both Java and C# flavor
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Understanding XML Schema
Explore the XML Schema definition language, which is poised to play a central role in the future of XML processing, especially in Web services.
The 64-Bit Question
By Michael Otey – Do you need the extra muscle that the 64-bit version of SQL Server 2000 brings to the table? See what’s new, what’s different, and what’s stayed the same in the latest version of SQL server for the enterprise.
Keeping Up with OracleJVM
By Madhavi Yeleswarapu and Brian Bombard – Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is a scalable, general-purpose Java execution environment that is compliant with the Sun Java JDK specification. Optimized to leverage Oracle architecture, OracleJVM (in Oracle9i, it’s called Oracle9i JVM) is a JVM that is embedde
Microsoft Stays On Top of OLAP Heap
By Lisa Vaas – Microsoft Corp. edged out Hyperion Solutions to nab the leadership position in the $3 billion OLAP market in 2002, according to the latest edition of The OLAP Report.The biggest single reason for Microsoft’s success is pricing, according to Nigel Pendse, the report’s author.
Upgrade an Instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine to SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3
This step-by-step article describes how to upgrade an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (also known as MSDE 2000) to SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3).
Oracle exec: ‘We are targeting Microsoft’
By Ellen O’Brien – Oracle senior vice president of database server technologies Andy Mendelsohn is all worked up over XML, Oracle’s new low-cost message, and the way customers are buying into Real Application Clusters (RAC). In coming weeks, Oracle will target Microsoft with a campaign to convince c
All That We Can Leave Behind
by Mark Pilgrim – Last month I promised an article on the venerable tag, which has been dropped from XHTML 2.0. It was supposed to be a gentle introduction to “stuff we lose in XHTML 2.0, and what we gain in return”. However, during the course of researching, I realized that it was turning out
Book Review: “Web Services: A Technical Introduction”
Now that Web services passed the peak of the hype curve and have moved into productive use, Prentice Hall’s Deitel Developer Series provides a technical introduction to Web services that is packed with information on business models, vendors and products as well as base technology.
IBM, Microsoft Advance XQuery Standard
By Erika Morphy – Like all open standards, XQuery will level the playing field for the next generation of XML-based applications, says AMR Research’s Louis Columbus. “Now it will be possible to create, search, syndicate and populate taxonomies entirely based on XML-originated data.”