What do you get when you cross J2ME, SQL, and company that has already built a successful business providing Java-based database solutions? In this case, the answer is PointBase Micro, from California-based PointBase, Inc.
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Cisco Unveils XML Community Site
By Thor Olavsrud – Working on the assumption that customers are sold on applications and not technology — and that customers know their needs best — networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. launched a community Web site that aims to connect its IP telephony services customers with independent XML devel
Apache Cocoon 2.0
Apache Cocoon 2.0 is a complete rewrite of the Apache Cocoon XML publishing framework that is supposed to remove all those design constraint that emerged from the Apache Cocoon 1 experience. This documentation is alpha, like anything else, so don't expect that much. If you are not a devel
Interactive Web Services with XForms
by Micah Dubinko – A form — whether a sheet of paper or a web page — represents a structured exchange of data. Web services, as typified by emerging standards like SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, is an excellent approach to exchanging data in a structured way, although usually the exchange is between machin
Use the Correct ASP (ADO) Syntax to Enable Connection Pooling for Best SQL Server Performance
by Brian Lockwood – There is much confusion about how to actually implement connection pooling in VB/VBScript code. In this article I have actually tested various ASP syntax variations and verified the results when using connection pooling.
Price Comparisons
Compare pricing for SQL Server 2000 and Oracle9i with this pricing calculator. Click Oracle-SQL.xls on this page to use the Microsoft Excel–based calculator and determine pricing differences between these two relational database products.
SQL Server: Top 10 Tips
by Mary V. Hooke – SQL Server is a robust tool that provides many useful features. But with so much functionality available, you can easily overlook the important features. These 10 tips point out some often overlooked techniques.
Version 2.0 Working Draft for Financial Products Markup Language (FpML)
A communiqué from Steven Lord (Chair, FpML Interest Rate Product Working Group) announces the release of a version 2.0 Working Draft for the FpML specification. The Financial Products Markup Language (FpML) "is an XML-based protocol enabling e-commerce activities in the field of financial deriva
What's next for XHTML?
By Ann Navarro – XHTML 1.0 is only the first step in the bridge between HTML and XML. Additional work at the W3C has produced several new recommendations that take us incrementally closer to a fully XML-ized HTML. Immediately after publishing XHTML 1.0, research began on the Modularization of XHTML.
From COM to .NET
This article discusses a few tips and strategies on how to prepare for the move to .NET, so that when the time comes to shift, the move will be with minimum cost and as smooth as possible. This article assumes that your company is already heavily involved with Microsoft technologies, and that you us