By Nicholas Chase – Using Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) is often the easiest way to transform your XML data from one form into another, as it allows you a great deal of flexibility without having to change an application. On occasion, however, you may run into a snag because
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Debate foams over SOAP 1.2
By Tom Sullivan – AS THE WORLD Wide Web Consortium (W3C) works to add the finishing touches on SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) 1.2, debate is heating up over Web services interoperability and SOAP's future in the Web.
Project 2002 Adds Collaboration, Resource Management Capabilities
By Barbara Darrow – Microsoft Project 2002, which adds a server component for centralized data management, will be generally available next month… The product line now includes a server that runs atop SQL Server 2000 to store and manage resource data. “You can now run portfolio management and anal
SQL Server 2000 I/O configuration in a SAN/NAS environment
(Edward Whalen) In this article the fundamental concepts and tuning of SQL Server I/O subsystems will be explored. By understanding the limitations of the I/O subsystem, you will be able to design and properly size it so that performance can be optimized.
Database performance tuning strategies
A quick listing of the general strategies to try when maximizing the performance of any database.
Check digit function
By Michael Kleiser – It is a good idea to have a check digit in ID columns, especially if values are entered manually. Here is a check function to use:
SQLXML 3.0 RTM Available
XML is where things are going relative to data retrieval and manipulation in SQL 2000 and, in the future, the Yukon product release. SQLXML is an add-on that you can download from Microsoft and begin working immediately against SQL Server with XML, etc. Previously available in beta rel
Berners-Lee underlines importance of royalty-free standards
In his opening keynote at WWW2002 in Hawaii, Tim Berners-Lee stressed how vital it was that Web specifications remain unburdened by royalties.
Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference)
Author: Andy Wigley – This comprehensive reference provides developers with the information they need to develop new applications or move existing applications to handheld devices and other resource-constrained hardware. It offers specific techniques for writing mobile applications, including develo
Using JAXR
Now that we've looked at a simple SOAP client to build a request by hand, and a client that uses a UDDI API to build a request with slightly higher-level tools, let's proceed to the next level of abstraction: the Java API for XML Registries (JAXR). JAXR is a uniform approach to accessing a r