by Peter G. Aitken – The Simplified Object Access Protocol, commonly known as SOAP, is a technique that uses XML to transport information over the Internet. More specifically, SOAP provides a way to invoke object methods, and to retrieve the results of those methods, using a standard and widely adop
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Did You Know? — April 2002
By Hervé Deschamps – Forms 9i New Features (My Favorite Ones), Forms9i Obsolescence Features, Designer 6i, UNIX.
How to avoid ‘mutating table’ errors
By Pravesh Gupta – Sometimes you may need to do an insert or update in the same table on which your trigger fires, resulting in a “Mutating Table” error. This can be avoided by writing a procedure, function or package that declares the pragma autonomous_transaction. The transaction is thus not visib
Mozilla breaks compatibility with Adobe SVG plugin
As the Mozilla browser nears its 1.0 release, recent builds have proved incompatible with Adobe's SVG plugin, according to a bug recently filed on Mozilla.
Apache SOAP type mapping, Part 1: Exploring Apache's serialization APIs
SOAP defines a simple wire protocol for transferring application-level data. This protocol can easily carry arbitrary Java types as serialized XML, thanks to its rich and extensible type system. In this article, the first of a two-part series on the type system support found in the Apache SOAP toolk
Programming Languages for XML (PLAN-X)
Call for papers on a workshop, organized by Philip Wadler, focusing on the intersection between XML and programming languages. Deadline for submission is 1 May 2002.
Oracle, IBM DB2 Gain Intelligence
By Matt Hicks and John S. McCright – Moves by Oracle Corp. and IBM to embed new business intelligence functionality in their database management systems are designed to improve performance and simplify data warehousing. But they could also add unwanted complexity.Release 2 of Oracle’s 9i dat
Oracle AppsWorld To Focus On Outsourcing
By Antone Gonsalves and Rick Whiting – Oracle, looking to boost sagging revenue by expanding its software hosting business, next week will unveil a service to entice customers to leave their data with Oracle. The Oracle Outsourcing Upgrade targets customers running their businesses on versions 10.7
Are SQL Server Temp Tables Really Necessary?
by Randy Dyess – Learn the the pros and cons of using SQL Server temp tables. Also find out how to optimize temp tables, assuming you can’t find a way to avoid using them.
TAG Watch
by Kendall Grant Clark – Now that a full two months have passed, it seems a good time to look again at what the TAG has accomplished, what's on its agenda at the moment, and where it might be going next. In order to answer those questions, I will be examining the TAG's issues list, the progr