(Jimmy Zhang) SOAP is an XML based data protocol standardized by W3C for the purpose of enabling inter-application data exchange over the Internet. In a typical Web Services scenario, a SOAP message delivered via HTTP needs to be parsed before anything else can happen. As two popular SOAP proces
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Configuration API Improvements in ASP.NET 2.0
(Thiru Thangarathinam) Microsoft has greatly enhanced the management tasks for your .NET 2.0 applications by providing a set of configuration APIs that you can use to programmatically access, modify, and save the configuration of an application using minimal code. This article explores the new a
.NET Unwrapped
Tune in to .NET Unwrapped, the webcast series focused on real-world developer solutions for the financial services industry. Hear from the Microsoft financial services team as well as experts who have deployed technologies and systems at some of the largest financial institutions. Learn how to:
Guarantee SOAP Message Integrity
(Mike Lehmann) In my last column, I introduced WS-Security and its implementation in Oracle Application Server 10g Release 10.1.3. The focus was on the basic WS-Security conceptual model, where security—specifically authentication—was carried in the SOAP message rather than in reuse of HTTP protocol
Window on the World
(Robert Catterall) When I first started working with DB2 version 1.2 for mainframe servers back in the late 1980s, DB2 did a great job of storing and managing data, but couldn’t serve it up without help from a program running in an address space external to DB2, such as a CICS or IMS transaction or
Hardening SQL Server hardware
(Barrie Sosinsky) When most people think of the phrase “hardening a server,” they tend to think in terms of security practices that make it difficult for people to gain unintended access to your database. That is only one kind of hardening. From the standpoint of Windows server technology, harde
How to use Oracle 10g Single-Sign-On with Microsoft .NET applications
(Sanjeev Malik) Today’s enterprise-wide systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated with a variety of operating systems and software development platforms. This presents the constant challenge of integration, which requires creative ways of configuring products from multiple vendors to work in t
Moving A SQL Server Database
A database move can be done a couple different ways, but when the database is updated frequently and the move needs to be completed with minimal downtime and no data loss, it is best to move it by detaching and then reattaching the database on the new server.
Looking for Memory Leaks
(V. Benjamin Livshits) J2EE allows developers to create large, complex enterprise systems relatively quickly. However, applications using comprehensive, multi-layer libraries such as provided by J2EE are prone to performance bottlenecks. That’s why it’s especially important for developers to profile
FIX: You may receive a 3628 error in SQL Server 2000 when you query many items that have an IN clause
The following issue is fixed in this Microsoft SQL Server 2000 hotfix package: • When you run a query in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 that has many items in the IN clause, you may receive the following error message: Server: Msg 3628, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 A floating point exception occurre