(James M. Snell) Learn how to apply well-defined, proven Web application design strategies to the world of Web services. This first tip in a series shows you how to implement asynchronous query operations using Java Messaging Service (JMS) queues.

(Uche Ogbuji) XML 1.0 was developed by a roundtable of SGML veterans, the worthy founding elders of the phenomenon that XML has become. The result of their initial burst of energy was the first generation of XML technologies. The elders always said that XML 1.0 was but one part of a foundational tri

This article contains tips and interview questions for Java, XML, J2EE and much more.

(Bob Beauchemin) See how improvements to XML support in Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 work together to make handling XML data in your applications easier.

User-friendly navigation is one of the most important aspects of Web site design, and also one of the most challenging. Any novice Web developer can put together a 100-page Web site, but organizing those 100 pages into easily-navigable categories can tax the ingenuity of even seasoned designers. (

(Mike Morgan) Application integration comes in many forms, whether it be integration between components of a single software system or integration between systems. Making use of a common communications protocol between disparate systems allows for the creation of an integrated suite of applicati

(Brian Venn) Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based language for drawing two-dimensional graphics. The ability to render graphics on the fly lends itself naturally to using it for representing data such as graphs. But suppose the data being represented varies in its magnitude. You may want t

(harikishan) OPENXML is a new function added to SQL Server 2000 that provides a rowset view over an XML document which will help to minimize database calls.

(John E. Simpson) If you’re a regular visitor to XML.com, you know the extent to which XML sometimes seems to have taken over the world. It’s so simple to use, and has so much cross-platform utility, that it apparently fires the imagination of people who — or so you might think — otherwise have li

(Vance McCarthy) The lead author of one of the most comprehensive books on web services security offers some key tips for designing and deploying sercurity for enterprise-based web services projects.