By Apu Shah – This week, new specifications providing Java with business process integration and workflow API’s were proposed along with a proposal for the next generation of the Java API’s for XML Processing. In addition, the Executive committee for the Java Mobile Edition platform approved the fin
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Tip: Use internal references in XML vocabularies
In some cases, you can avoid repeating identical data fields by using internal references from one field to another. Uche Ogbuji demonstrates how in this tip.
Standards: Optional Features or Law?
by Dimitris Dimitriadis – In an earlier article, I argued that providing uniform test frameworks and detailed specification formats would enhance interoperability of specification implementations. Technical issues aside, some of which I discussed in that article, there are a few important reasons wh
Letters, April 2003
From SQL Magazine – Readers give advice about configuring the Client Access ODBC driver for DTS data transfer between the AS/400 and SQL Server and ask about concurrent security role limits in Analysis Services.
Indexed Views Basics in SQL Server 2000
By Andrew Novick – Indexes have been a method to improve the performance of SQL queries since the creation of relational databases in the 1970’s. Up until recently, indexes were always created on a single table and they’ve undergone only limited changes over the years. That was true until a few year
Extend the reach of SQL Server with SQLXML Classes in .NET
by S. Vikram – The term SQLXML is used to denote the XML features supported in SQL Server 2000 in .NET. These new XML features extend the reach of SQL Server, and their effects on the database developer are minimal. The classes in the Microsoft.Data.SqlXml namespace are referred to as the SQLXML-man
How to Acquire Lock without Handling Exceptions
by T.R. Bharath Rajkumar – Normally I use FOR UPDATE NOWAIT to acquire a lock on rows. This statement either locks all the selected rows or the control is returned without acquiring any lock (i.e. even on rows which are available for locking) after throwing an exception.But there is an featu
Return Prewritten WSDL
by Kevin Jones – Writing Web Services Description Language (WSDL) can be a chore because of its complexity and tediousness—not to mention the error-prone tools for writing it. See how to return dynamic WSDL automatically.
XML and Integration
By Hitesh Seth – To appreciate the value that XML brings to integration, I decided to talk with leading integration software providers who have used XML in various incarnations (a.k.a. markups) within their products and have extensively leveraged the benefits of XML.
Why Use SOAP?
by Frank Sommers – SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) has become synonymous with XML- based Web services. However, many real-world response-request-type Web services don’t use SOAP; instead, they pass XML messages directly over HTTP. This article discusses these two Web service design approaches.