Vitria, a leading integration solutions provider, announced immediate availability of a new business collaboration standard, Value Chain Markup Language(TM) (VCML(TM)). VCML addresses the number one barrier to widespread Web and Internet-based business collaboration within and across industry
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Rescheduled conference dates
New dates have been issued for several XML-related conferences, rescheduled due to the September attacks on the United States: XML World, XML on Wall Street, and O'Reilly P2P & Web Services conference.
An Exclusive Interview with Robin Dewson
Robin Dewson is the author of the Wrox Press book, Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming, and the co-writer of several other SQL Server-related books, including Professional Access 2000 Programming, Professional SQL Server Development with Access 2000, Professional SQL Server DTS, and Professional S
Undocumented SQL Server 2000 System Tables
by Alexander Chigrik – In this article, I want to tell you about the undocumented system tables shipped with SQL Server 2000. These tables are used by some system stored procedures and most are stored in the master database (only the sysfiles1, sysproperties and sysfulltextnotify system tables are s
Open source tools for ebXML, FpML
The Open ebXML Project have released tools supporting document generation for ebXML Business Process Analysis worksheets, and Finetix have released an open source tool for processing FpML, the financial products markup language.
Easy Web Content Management with XMLcmNOW
Using XSLT to produce HTML pages becomes more and more popular. In our last column we examined an approach that dynamically generates content out of a servlet engine. Many Web sites still only serve static pages that have been uploaded through FTP, though. With the subsequently introduced XMLcmNOW,
Xbeans provide a modular approach to building an XML processing toolkit
by John B. O'Donahue – One of the most interesting new developments in XML processing has been the introduction of the Xbean. Xbeans are small and simple software components that take XML as input and process it in some way, passing XML on to the next Xbean. This approach lends itself very well
Using FTP in Transact-SQL
From SQLTeam – I’ve seen a few posts asking “How do I ftp a file into SQL” Well, if you have 6.5 or 7.0 this article should be helpful. Unfortunately it’s not an easy answer, but it’ll work great once you’ve set it up. The answer is that there isn’t a function in SQL to let you do this, you […]
Exposing SQL Server Data to the Web with XML
Extensible markup language (XML) is a meta-markup language that provides a format for describing structured data. Unlike hyper text markup language (HTML), XML does not handle the presentation of data. Instead, the tags used to encompass the data are used to describe the data. This allows for a simp
Microsoft tests JDBC driver for SQL Server
By Barbara Darrow – Microsoft and Merant DataDirect teamed on a driver to allow integrators to pump data back and forth between Windows-centric SQL Server and Java applications.