According to a September 2001, IDC (International Data Corp.) report on IT Education and Training Services, the fastest-growing certification areas were for database professionals and network engineers. And in an October survey from crn.com on Certification: What’s Hot, What’s Not, 58% of respondent
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Interactive Web Services with XForms
by Micah Dubinko – A form — whether a sheet of paper or a web page — represents a structured exchange of data. Web services, as typified by emerging standards like SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, is an excellent approach to exchanging data in a structured way, although usually the exchange is between machin
Working XML: Compiling XPaths
By Benoit Marchal – The Java-based Handler Compiler (HC) project for SAX parsing nears its alpha release. This month our columnist describes how he implements the DFA construction algorithm, giving the first concrete example of using the compiler to recognize XPath.
BizTalk: E-Commerce the Microsoft Way I
While the non-profit sponsors of ebXML, OASIS and the United Nations, aim for the high grounds of world-wide electronic commerce, Microsoft enters the same field with what it does best: delivering a piece of software, in this case BizTalk Server.
Oracle Pushes Portal For App Integration
By L. Scott Tillett – Oracle plans to make its portal software more “aware” of alternative technologies when the product debuts as part of version 2 of Oracle’s application server this quarter.
Identifying the Oracle datafile MAXSIZE
Shankar Govindan – There is always some ambiguity regarding the datafile size limit on a given platform and version of the database. Here is a simple way of identifying the maximum size to which a datafile can grow before switching to the next datafile. To do this let’s create a tablespace with some
Database Connections and SQLJ Statements
by Jason Price – This second column in my Learning SQLJ series explores how to connect to a database and embed SQL statements in your Java programs using SQLJ. These columns reference numerous SQL scripts, source code, and other files that are available for download at O’Reilly’s Web site.
Announcing the Microsoft .NET Best Awards 2001
The time for talk is over – its time to write code! We're looking for the hottest web service developers IN THE WORLD to face off and show us what you've got. Microsoft .NET Best Awards will recognize those who innovative with XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. WIN $25,000 cash, developer workstation
Extending the Web: XHTML Modularization
by Kendall Grant Clark – Many … have indicated that they wish to subset and extend HTML … They want to do this to accommodate device-specific functionality, to limit the content that is sent to smaller-footprint devices, or to enhance their ability to produce useful Internet content … The best
The Market Outlook for XML Servers
Despite current economic conditions that could slow implementation of Extensible Markup Language servers, International Data Group is predicting the market for XML servers will reach $3.7 billion in 2005.