Oracle is coming under increasing fire for its repeated claims that its software platform is “unbreakable” and able to withstand the best efforts of any hacker.silicon.com has spoken to two IT security firms in the last week that have found vulnerabilities in Oracle’s flagship software and s
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Living documents with XML events
Most documents today are living documents in the sense that they are constantly updated and never finished. With the advent of HTML and Web browsers documents became also living in that they can interactively respond to events. Now this kind of life comes to XML documents with the newly standardized
Elements Revisited
by John E. Simpson – Element names and content models can be tricky things. This month, we'll start by revisiting a DTD question that came up in September. Q: How do I enforce a range of occurrences of one element inside another?
Sun Touts Web Services Play
By Richard Karpinski – Guess where J2EE is heading? The next version of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, will support an array of XML-based Web services standards.
Oracle To Give Sneak Peek Of Database
Oracle will give a sneak peek of the next release of its flagship database at its Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco next month. The preview of Oracle9i Release 2 comes as the vendor wrestles with slowing database software sales and increasing competition from IBM and Microsoft.
Oracle mends fences with US user group
After 18 months of tension between Oracle and the Oracle Application Users Group (OAUG) in the US, the relationship is now on the mend, declared OAUG president Jeremy Young at its annual meeting.
Oracle unveils weapons against IBM, Microsoft
By Wylie Wong – Looking to jump-start sales in the face of stiff competition and a sagging economy, Oracle is set to disclose plans for new software and a revamped version of its flagship database-management application at a customer conference in San Francisco next week.
The SOAP Factory
Web services continue to evolve, but the underlying simple object access protocol (SOAP) technology is solid and sophisticated. James Cooper shows you how to write elaborate programs by incorporating simple design patterns into your SOAP server system.
ScrollKeeper: Open Source Document Management
by Kendall Grant Clark – System administrators and users need a framework for document collection that's evolved within the ecological niche of a free software Unix-like operating system. And that's exactly what the ScrollKeeper project provides. ScrollKeeper is "a cataloging system for
Microsoft Bolsters .Net Strategy With Developer Tools
By Aaron Ricadela – Gates debuts 'software as a service' strategy at professional developers conference in LA.Gates previewed .Net My Services, Microsoft's vision of how software will be delivered as a service in the future. Microsoft also outlined the Global XML Web Services Arc