(Aaron Skonnard) Back in the July and August 2003 issues of MSDN Magazine, Dan Sullivan and I covered various Web services validation techniques. We highlighted the fact that the ASP.NET Web services framework (ASMX) does not perform XML Schema validation on incoming messages and we illustrated the

(Uche Ogbuji) The world of XML is vast and growing, with a huge variety of standards and technologies that interact in complex ways. It can be difficult for beginners to navigate the most important aspects of XML, and for users to keep track of new entries and changes in the space. XML is a basic sy

(Russell Butek) JAX-RPC supports SOAP with attachments. This tip describes how you can use JAX-RPC APIs to send MIME attachments.

(Edmond Woychowsky) One of my favorite parts of Web applications development is user interface design. My primary concern is with the flow of a page as opposed to how pretty it is. There is nothing more frustrating than having clients make their selections, click a button, and then wait for an entir

(Tom Bradford) dbXML is a native XML database written in in Java. Native XML databases (NXDs) are databases that store XML using an internalized format for faster overall processing, and representational flexibility. NXDs also provide support for indexing XML for improved query performance.

JSQLMapper is a bi-directional data mapping tool that eliminates the need to construct custom code in order to bring relational data into XML format. The beta release allows for rapid linking of business applications with the creation of relational data entries into a standards based XML format and

In the January/February 2003 issue of Oracle Magazine, Jonathan Gennick wrote about XML DB and explained some of its capabilities offered in Oracle9i Database Release 2. Gennick referred to the two different storage architectures of the new datatype, XMLType: CLOB (Character Large Object) and struct

Last month, Microsoft applied for a patent to cover a word-processing document stored in a single XML file. That was in Europe and New Zealand. “The present invention,” it said in its accompanying Summary submitted to the European Patent Office, “is directed at providing a word-processing docum

(David S. Linthicum) While there are many standards that look like ebXML, ebXML is the first horizontal standard designed to address the exchange of information and adherence to inter-enterprise processes. However, in attempting to reach this lofty goal, ebXML is also a complex standard and takes so

(Andrew Conrad) The second in a series of articles by Andrew Conrad showcases the XML functionality of SQL Server 2000 by turning SQL Server into an object repository using XML as the bridge between relational and object-oriented data.