by Martin Gudgin, Timothy Ewald – In last month's column we put a stake in the ground, offering a definition of "web service". This month we're going to examine one of the underlying protocols upon which such services are being built, namely, SOAP. The original SOAP specification, ve
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Web Services and UDDI: The New Wave of E-Business Renaissance
by Sandip H. Mandera – Successful e-commerce requires disparate businesses to be able to discover the services offered by others and integrate those services within their existing infrastructure. Therefore, Web services must use standard technologies for service discovery, service descriptions, and
Pretty printing XML
Mike Brown and Jeni Tennison have developed a stylesheet for pretty printing XML. The stylesheet creates an HTML and CSS representation. A version that produces plain ASCII output is also available.
Microsoft Accepting Applications for SQL Server SP2 Beta Program
By Kathy Blomstrom – The Microsoft SQL Server product team is accepting applications for the SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2) beta program. Only registered members of this private program will receive the beta version of SP2 for testing and evaluation purposes. SP2 beta program participants will
ASP Neat Released
ASP Neat is a powerful, yet easy to use, code generator for Active Server Page code. Database programming for the web just got easier, and much faster!Designed for use with Microsoft SQL Server and MS Access databases, ASP Neat helps you to quickly create Active Server ‘Page Sets’ for basic
New PASS North America Dates Announced
Thank you for being patient while we deliberated on a new PASS user conference venue. PASS is pleased to announce that PASS North America has been rescheduled to January 28-31, 2002 at the Adam’s Mark Hotel in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Idoox WASP Lite 3.0 released
The toolkit, available for free, includes support for SOAP 1.1, WSDL 1.1 and W3C XML Schema. It features development tools for Sun Forte for Java, remote debugging of web services, dynamic proxy generation, and many other features.
Roll Your Own Swing-based XML Editor
By Kyle Gabhart – If you've been looking for a cross-platform, open-source XML editor, you've likely come up short. In the following series of three articles, I will walk you through the development of a simple, no frills, XML editor, utilizing several of the most common Java 2 Swing compone
Command Line Transformations Using msxsl.exe
Until now, there has been no off-the-shelf way to perform command-line Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) transformations using the Microsoft® XSL processor. MSXSL is a small command-line utility that invokes MSXML3.DLL or MSXML4.DLL to perform the transformation.
Keyword search using a tally or sequence table
From SQLTeam – Ryan writes “I am looking for a way of creating a stored procedure that will carry out a keyword search without building up the SQL dynamically in the stored procedure. What I’m after is a method of doing this that doesn’t require me to build up a huge string.”