by Brenda Coulson – Historically, digital signatures have handled the job of data validation and encryption in Web services. But new developments in XML specifications are improving security in SOAP messaging. Get the details on the specification changes and find out how to use them to enhance Web s
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Sybase Retools PowerBuilder for Web Services
By Darryl K. Taft – Sybase Inc. is ramping up the support for XML and Web services in the beta versions of its PowerBuilder rapid application development tool. The beta version of PowerBuilder 9.0, announced Monday at Sybase’s TechWave 2002 user and developer conference in San Diego, includes
PyXML 0.8 released
Version 0.8 of the Python/XML supplementary distribution has been released. Major changes include addition of DOM Level 3 (WD) load/store and dropping of Python 1.5 support.
Demand Isn’t High For Database Software
By Rick Whiting – The demand for database software will remain low for the near term, according to a recent survey of more than 600 business-technology professionals conducted by InformationWeek and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Nearly three out of four respondents have no immediate plans to buy datab
Server System Architecture, 2002
by Joe Chang – Learn about the various chipsets, and their pros and cons, available for your SQL Server.
Designing Databases for Extreme Performance
By Brian Moran – Avoid performance-tuning mistakes and design a database that can handle unpredictable future demands for extreme performance and scalability.
Database Power Play
By Matt Hicks – A few years ago, Green Mountain Power Corp. found itself in an all-too-common predicament as it examined the state of its database systems. It had multiple systems running on multiple operating systems, spread across the company supporting specific enterprise applications. It
Step By Step: Getting Started With UDDI
By Richard Karpinski – If some Web services protocols such as SOAP have soared—and they have, despite high-profile consumer missteps like Microsoft Hailstorm—then it’s also fair to say that UDDI stalled on the take-off ramp.UDDI, or Universal Description, Discovery and Integration, aims to c
Nasdaq, PwC, Microsoft Team on XBRL
By Peter Galli – The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) and Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday will launch a pilot program that allows companies to more easily communicate their financial information over the Internet and which helps investors more easily analyze this data. The p
UML For W3C XML Schema Design
by Will Provost – Even with the clear advantages it offers over the fast-receding DTD grammar, W3C XML Schema (WXS) cannot be praised for its concision. Indeed, in discussions of XML vocabulary design, the DTD notation is often thrown up on a whiteboard solely for its ability to quickly and complete