Forum Systems, the provider of Web services and SOA security products for threat protection and trust management, announced the availability of Forum Vantage XML Accelerator, a new product designed to provide XML acceleration across networks for secure and optimized delivery of Web Services.

(James Chamberlain, Guy Kempny, Gary Elliott, Susan Manoy, Regiane Takenaka, Eric Derksen, Clifford Lau, Bill Blythe, Jeff Kobal and Julie Breitfelder-Parker) IBM’s next generation WebSphere Voice Server V5.1.1 and V5.1.2 products leverage the power of IBM WebSphere Application Server. It supports f

(Aaron Skonnard) In my last column, I provided a brief introduction to BizTalk Server 2004 for XML developers. I covered the product evolution, core architecture, and several aspects of the underlying messaging layer, all of which have helped make BizTalk Server 2004 the powerful integration technol

(Jason Brooks) I was pretty impressed when, just before Thanksgiving, I came across a Financial Times article reporting that Microsoft was pledging to open up the specifications for its Office file formats, although those specs wouldn’t be available for 18 months or so.

(Uche Ogbuji) In two previous installments — "Querying WordNet as XML" and "Serving up WordNet as XML" — I presented code for XML-based processing of the useful WordNet project. WordNet represents an important parallel to the central theme of this column: Thinking XML covers semantics in XML; Word

(Lee Asher) There’s a craze on the web at the moment, and that craze is named AJAX. What’s that? Well, according to some people, it’s a technology that’s going to redefine the web. Just how many times have you heard that statement.

(Doug Tillman) The XML format has become a de facto standard in contemporary IT work. Amongst all the XML-related technology advances, Java-XML binding and serialization has especially been of use to me because much of the work I do involves back-end business components. Java-XML binding and seriali

(Daniel Rubio) Linking Web service requesters and providers entails a fair amount of work for both parties, encompassing such things as agreeing on the business function to be fulfilled, the technical contract details and of course integrating the service into the grander scheme of an application. B

(Doug Tidwell) To get things started, we’ll write a 10-line servlet that generates an XML document. As we build our XML-aware servlets, we’ll follow three steps: –Set the content type to text/xml. –Create the XML document. –Write the XML document back to the client.

(Ed Tittel) Those who’ve been reading my XML tips for any length of time, especially recently, will know that I just finished up a marathon 9-part collection of same on the subject of XSLT. After a brief hiatus, I’m now playing catch-up for all the cool XML specifications, tools and technologies I d