By Dan McDonough, Jr. – Oracle and DoCoMo plan to provide the software and services needed to convince corporations that wireless apps can deliver tangible benefits. ‘The biggest obstacle is that enterprises need to justify the investment,’ Yankee Group analyst Gene Signorini told Wireless NewsFacto
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Database vendors keep the XML faith
By Tom Sullivan and Paul Krill – DATABASE ARCHENEMIES IBM and Oracle are at it again, and the battle over how to store and manage XML data rages on. Both companies are set to issue new versions of their relational databases in the near future, with Oracle planning a May release and IBM slatin
Dynamic SVG: Graphic Interactivity in a Browser?
by Nigel McFarlane – Go beyond simple point-and-click interactivity in your Web pages and see how dynamic SVG provides new ways for users to supply input. Download the Adobe SVG Plugin and then try the sample now.
Additional XML Security URIs
By Donald E. Eastlake 3rd – This document is intended to be a convenient reference list of URIs and descriptions for algorithms in which there is substantial interest but which can not or have not been included in the main documents for some reason. Note in particular that raising XML digital signat
Flash XML Studio Lab
This page provides links to three chapters from Flash XML Studio Lab, a friends of ED book by Ian Tindale, James Rowley and Paul McDonald. The book is aimed at Macromedia Flash developers familiar with ActionScript but new to using XML with Flash.
Oracle Gets Into The Collections Biz
By Michael Singer – Oracle Thursday unveiled Oracle Collections, a collections software enhanced Customer Relationship Management (CRM) features. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based business software giant says the new software is part of its Oracle E-Business Suite and is now available as tradi
Oracle loses Ellison’s Java certification challenge
Oracle Corp risks slipping further behind leading application server rivals and failing to broaden its product appeal to customers, after losing a self-imposed race for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.3 certification against BEA Systems Inc.
Creating Efficient MSXML Applications
by Ben Berck – I have read dozens of books and articles directed at programmers who need to get something done with XML. While these resources can be helpful, many are for programmers new to XML development and contain examples that use tiny files (e.g., always less than 10 KB and often smaller than
SVG: Modularized and mobile
Mid-February the W3C released last call drafts of SVG 1.1 and SVG Mobile. SVG 1.1 is a modularized form of SVG 1.0, specified in W3C XML Schema rather than DTDs. By dividing up the functionality of SVG into modules, it facilitates the production of SVG profiles. Mobile SVG creates two such profiles:
Converting RTF documents with graphics into HTML documents
In a previous tip, Khor Soon Hin showed you how to get your RTF documents onto the Web quickly. Now, what if you have some graphics in your RTF documents? What happens to them during conversion from RTF to sdocbook XML? Read on to find out.