First, it was HTML that transformed the previously text-based Internet into a dynamic graphical marketplace. Then, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Web standards body, began work on an extensible markup language (XML) standard in order to carry the Net to the next level. If HTML broke ground
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Embracing Web Services
by Edd Dumbill- Greg Hope laid out the future of web business as Microsoft sees it, and especially the role of XML technologies, in a talk entitled, "Web Services: Requirements, Challenges and Opportunities" at XML DevCon in San Jose on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2000. Hope, an architect of the .
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Achieving High Availability – Part 1
I was going to hold off on this series of articles for the time being. But there have been several mailing list/newsgroup threads concerning this. High availability is also appearing on the radar screen more often in upper management. Why? They read the trade mags and see high availability, clus
A Uniform Interface for Authoring
by Edd Dumbill- In the first session of the XML DevCon Fall 2000 conference, Greg Stein delivered an introduction to WebDAV, the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol. Stein is an open source developer working with WebDAV and Python — he is the author of the mod_dav Apache DAV support,
The Basics of XHTML
-Scott Klein-We all know the history of HTML and how it came about from the pains of SGML so I'll spare you the details you’ve heard many times before. My intent today is to discuss XHTML and its background. In this article we'll discuss the basics of XHTML, what it is, how it originated, ho
Using WSDL in SOAP applications
Uche Ogbuji has written a couple of articles at IBM's developerWorks concerning XML protocol-related technologies. Using WSDL in SOAP applications explains WSDL, the Web Services Description Language.
SQL Server 6.5 Configuration
Memory – This is the single most important parameter to configure on your system. Memory is used for a variety of things within SQL Server. Upon start up, a portion of this is used management the number of connections (40K), locks (32 bytes), and open objects configured on the server. The remaining
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Should XML become a real standard?
by Edd Dumbill, In an evening meeting at XML DevCon Fall 2000 in San Jose, some 60 people representing XML specification developer groups gathered to discuss the future development of XML standards. The issue: should XML be submitted to a more formal standards body, such as the International Organ