(Daniel Rubio) If there is mantra to developing applications on the Web it’s that of being a stateless medium, something that is due to the inherent design behind its base protocol: HTTP. However, conventional wisdom has shown that most interactions between client and server require maintaining some

(christophilus) My most recent project makes heavy use of remote scripting (or what some people might call AJAX). As such, I wanted an easy way to write XML from JavaScript so that it could be sent to my server. Now, there might be a very simple way of doing this, but I don’t know it if there is. So

(Marcos André Gonçalves, Ganesh Panchanathan, Unnikrishnan Ravindranathan, Aaron Krowne, Edward A. Fox, Filip Jagodzinski and Lillian Cassel) We describe current efforts and developments building on our proposal for an XML log standard format for digital library (DL) logging analysis and

(Frank Coyle) This December, Interop 2005 held its major network interoperability conference at New York City’s Jacob Javits Center. I decided to stop by and have a look, interested in seeing what impact, if any, XML was having on the movers and shakers in the world of networking.

(Bill Lewis) Recently I’ve had the opportunity to interface with several government initiatives concerned with modeling data to be shared among law enforcement agencies at federal, state, local and tribal levels. These initiatives typically are labeled with exotic and arcane acronyms: FEA DRM, N

(Marcelo Arenas, Wenfei Fan and Leonid Libkin) Data description for XML usually comes in the form of a type specification (e.g., a DTD) together with integrity constraints. XML Schema allows one to mix DTD features with semantic information, such as keys and foreign keys. It was shown recently that

(Dion Hinchcliffe) Ajax has been the other big software story of 2005, along with Web 2.0. An optional ingredient to Web 2.0 software, Ajax has changed the perception of Web-based software as being horribly clunky, page-oriented, and boring when compared to native computer applications. Ajax descr

(Jorge Luis Fernandez) This small tip shows how to pass the required parameters of a Stored Procedure in Crystal Reports.

(Ed Tittel) Anybody who’s been following application development trends for any time knows that Web Services is fast becoming the veritable "hot seat" of the development world. It’s where the action (and the money) is, and has become a line of business if not an outright obsession for everybody from

(Erin Cavanaugh) Though Web services are intended to simplify communications, developing them manually can be anything but simple. Altova has added visual Web services development and implementation capabilities to two of its most popular products, giving developers the ability to build a Web servic