In this Webcast, we’ll look at the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), a high-level XML-based language that defines the logic and flow of a process in terms of existing services and applications. Creating and modifying a BPEL document is easy, especially with the BPEL editor and debugger in

(Mark Pilgrim) Atom is an emerging standard for XML workflow: web editing, web publishing (including syndication), and archiving. It has recently become the basis of an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group, co-chaired by Paul Hoffman and Tim Bray. (Yes, that Tim Bray). Since join

(Benoît Marchal) This article concludes this series on modeling XML applications with the industry-standard UML. The previous installments left one question open: What if you have more than one possible relationship between the UML model and the XML vocabulary? The article further refines what h

Sometimes you need a SAX InputSource from a DOM Document object. For example, if you are using SAX parser to map XML to Java objects, but your source is a DOM Document object. Here is a solution found by software engineer Albert Yu, in which the only problem is that it throws a RuntimeException

(Mike J. Brown) This is a crash course in some essential concepts for software developers who are reading and writing XML documents on a regular basis. It is oriented toward people with some sort of programming background. The intended audience should already understand some basic things like wh

(Hao He) Despite the lack of vendor support, Representational State Transfer (REST) web services have won the hearts of many working developers. For example, Amazon’s web services have both SOAP and REST interfaces, and 85% of the usage is on the REST interface. Compared with other styles of web

(Ron Hankison) August 2004 Merging the Worlds of the Mainframe and the Web By Ron Hankison For decades, the computer industry has struggled with the problem of how to get heterogeneous systems to interact and to pass data in a form that is self-describing and through interfaces that are o

(Jan Mendling, Mark Strembeck, Gerald Stermsek, and Gustaf Neumann) The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) has become the defacto standard for Web Service composition. Yet, it does not address security aspects. This paper is concerned with access control for BPEL based pro

(Olexiy Prohorenko) Imagine a software project for which the front-end developers work with PHP and the back-end developers create Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs). As the project evolves, the front-end applications need to speak to the back-end EJBs, but this can’t be done in one simple step. So what’s

(Oleg Tkachenko) This article shows how to make XML programming easier and to boost your productivity using XSLT and XPath extensions, provided by the EXSLT.NET library