(Kendall Grant Clark) This week I’m attending XML 2004 Conference and Exhibition, organized by IDEAlliance, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC. Titled “XML: From Syntax to Solutions,” North America’s premiere XML conference is moving in the same direction as XML.com and XTech 2005.

(Luis Felipe Cabrera, Christopher Kurt and Don Box) This introduction to the Web services architecture describes the design principles underlying the architecture and foundational technologies for Web services. Features are described and linked to the specifications that formally define them. Th

(Preston Gralla) XML data has started to clog enterprise network traffic and bog down processors due to the increasing quantity and size of XML messages, according to a just-released report from the IT market intelligence firm ZapThink.

(Ed Tittel) As evidence of the ever-increasing exploitation of the overlap between XML markup languages and Windows development tools and environments, I urge those with a foot in the .NET camp and another on the Web to check out Xamlon Pro, for which the first commercial release just shipped days a

(Paul Festa) To listen to David Temkin, you’d think the future was here already. As chief technology officer of San Francisco start-up Laszlo Systems, Temkin is selling the idea that the long-predicted era has arrived in which software applications will live on Web sites rather than desktops.

(Rich Salz) I recently read the Last Call drafts from the Web Services Description Working Group of the W3C. I had no choice; I was on a cross-country flight, my laptop batteries were dead, and the in-flight movie was execrable.

(Alan Earls) Ellis Admire, director of emerging technologies at Direct Holdings, parent company of catalog fashion retailer Lillian Vernon, found himself in a tough spot about four years ago when it became clear the company needed to jump into Web retailing in a big way. His options were to create a

(Michael S. Mimoso) XML security isn’t all about shady crackers, malicious code and computer crime for profit — not yet anyway. Instead it’s about removing complexity and remedying performance degradation introduced by hefty authentication methods, experts and users said at XML Conference & Exp

(Micah Dubinko) A number of markup technologies involve attaching behaviors to specific parts of a document. XML Events is a W3C Recommendation that allows declarative attachment of a behavior — which can be a predefined bundle of actions defined in XML or a more general call to a scripting languag

(Ted Neward) There was a time not too long ago when a Java developer could walk up to a new enterprise Java development project and know ahead of time which tools they would use. It was all so simple then: J2EE was new, the HTML browser was the accepted norm for user interface, and complexity, a