(Jon Fancey) The potential of the service-oriented enterprise is huge. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) will simplify the building, managing, and maintaining of distributed systems, in part because the technologies you will use to build these new systems are standards-based, thanks to the collabo

(David Berlind) While I track trends in the Web services space, I have to admit that I’m normally not a follower at the API level as this or that company opens up its systems to public developer access. When I saw today’s news that Yahoo’s Jerry Yang was going to announce that Yahoo is embracing Web

(Ryan Paul) The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) provides a flexible and efficient way to store, transmit, and express data. Many applications have adopted it as their sole data format, and the availability of comprehensive XML development libraries makes it easy to add support for XML to new and ex

(Linda Briggs) Although the XML market has so far been focused mostly on data management and Web services, XML also works well for content management. With the right tools, it’s a natural for tracking information created by humans, including the contents of product manuals, technical material, Web s

The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) has announced the submission of a proposal for a new IETF Working Group for ‘Language Tag Registry Update’ in the IETF Applications Area. The Steering Group requests comment on this proposal through March 2, 2005; it is expected that the creation of the

(Laurence Moroney) There are many Java user interface toolkits. The most common, of course, are AWT and Swing, each of which has its advantages and drawbacks. Swing in particular, while it looks great, can be burdensome to develop and leads to large code footprints. As an example, Figure 1 shows a v

After you apply the WebDAV software update that is associated with Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-030, you make a WebDAV request that has many XML attributes. When you do this, you may receive a “500 Server Error” error message.

(Uche Ogbuji) In a previous tutorial, the author showed how to use Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) to display XML in browsers, presenting basic techniques. However, as anyone who has tried to master CSS even in the world of HTML and Javascript can attest, there are numerous tricks, traps and nuances. Th

(Micah Dubinko) This week I’ll be looking at some broad developments in the XML world and on the web. Especially in the software realm, new and useful technologies have a way of quietly developing under the guidance of one or a few stewards, sometimes for years, without being widely noticed. Even wi

(Ed Tittel) Developers who work with multiple kinds of data in any kind of volume typically find they must use databases to access relational data and XML to access document data. For example, report generators, or enterprise resource planning applications, work mostly with relational databases, yet