(Ed Scannell) IBM Global Services (IGS) added a little more muscle to its services-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative by signing up two new partners and broadening its portfolio with new technical capabilities.

(Scott Klein) For HTML experts, the information in this series of articles is going to mainly be general information on how to accomplish certain tasks (such as today’s article on Tables, future articles such as Links and Frames) in XHTML, with a few new added bits like the differences, if any, bet

(Alan Lewis) With a simple web service like a stock price lookup service, you can pass in a string representing the stock symbol and get back a decimal indicating its current price. Web services like these are easy to document and even with slightly more complex services, like an address validation

(azamsharp) I love AJAX, it really cleans my dishes. Unfortunately, in this article we will not be talking about washing detergent. If you like you can visit Clean My Dishes for more details. In this article we will be talking about AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). All you need to know right

(Jeremy Geelan) Web services and SOA aren’t boring,” mused Sun’s Tim Bray (pictured) 6 months ago in an essay about Sun’s strategy that everyone seems to have forgotten. “But we may have to destroy that village in order to save it,” he continued. Has that process now begun? Do SOA and Web services r

(Alberto Venditti) Did you ever need to find specific text inside an XML file? Or did you ever need to identify, in a set of XML files, those containing a specific text? If yes, probably you used some kind of “multiple file search” utility, or simply the operating system “Search” feature, able to lo

(Tony Patton) I was working with developers recently who are new to the .NET environment, and they were scratching their heads at the concept of storing configuration information. They were stuck on the older concept of using initialization (ini) or text files. I steered them away from this aven

(David Utter) DataDirect’s XQuery mimics one proposed standard, but as an embedded component instead. That should allow for faster XML queries from applications. The DataDirect XQuery is based on the Java XQuery API and the W3C’s XQuery standard.

(Karl Seguin) Learn how AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) can be used to make your Microsoft ASP.NET applications more dynamic and responsive.

(ColinBashBash) Simple stuff. These are just adapters to help separate xml document from the business logic. The Reader allows you to grab a child’s value or a child’s attribute. Also allows you to check to see if child exists. Lets you grab a node subset –> basically, if you sent it “childList” it