(Amlan Debnath) In recent years the application server has greatly evolved, expanding the set of core services provided by the infrastructure. The current Java platform supports XML data handling, scalability, load balancing, and other capabilities that allow application-level services to be develop

(Eugene Kuznetsov) The rise of internetworking was fueled by the use of network-level security technologies such as SSL, IPSec and firewall filtering to create a secure perimeter around an enterprise network. Today, this secure perimeter has become permeable as enterprises cut costs and drive re

(Paul Kimmel) The typed DataSet lets you write code that is strongly typed, more expressive, and conveys meaning in the language of the solution domain. Paul Kimmel shows you how to visually design an XML schema and use that schema to generate strongly typed DataSets without writing a single line of

(Elena Litani and Michael Glavassevich) In this final installment of a three-part series describing best practices for writing XML applications, the authors explain how to use Xerces2-specific features and properties to improve performance. They also give a short overview of the Xerces Native Inter

The functionality to specify parameters for a T-SQL or XPath query is provided by enhancements in ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) 2.6. This article presents a sample of how to specify parameters to a templated query against SQL Server 2000 from an MDAC 2.6 client.

(Les Wilson) The emerging world without wires has fostered a growing number of small and mobile devices (everything from PDAs to smart phones) capable of accessing data and running applications. The trouble is, while devices are getting smaller, human hands and fingers are not.

(Edd Dumbill) The vacation season has brought renewed vigor in discussion among XML developers. A recent thread about validation illustrated one of the most useful properties of XML-DEV as a community: technical discussions often evolve to encompass the wider context of practice in which they are re

(Gary Kupecz) The way XML has been positioned over the last several years – namely, as some type of savior for companies that have invested in myriad systems with numerous incompatible data types – it makes you wonder why organizations aren’t adopting any XML solution they can get their hands on.

(John E. Simpson) As I explained last month, in my final XML Q&A column, my new monthly column will focus on the ways people use XML. The XML ocean is a big one, populated with a good number of whales (EDI, web services, RDF, and so on). But there are also plenty of pilot fish and guppies swimming a

Most web applications have connections to databases and use XML to transfer data from the database to the web application and vice versa. Every major database vendor has proprietary extensions for using XML with relational databases, but they take completely different approaches, and there is no int