SOAP is a simple XML based protocol to let applications exchange information over HTTP. In our SOAP tutorial, you will learn what SOAP is, and how it uses XML to exchange information between applications.

(Charles Sterling) I want to create a Windows Application that allows a user to enter/edit/access data that he or she creates without connecting to a remote database. I want all of the data accessing to be local. Is this possible? I was thinking maybe using XML files to store the data and read the d

(Adam Bosworth) As XML starts to be used more and more ubiquitously in the industry, both for integrating applications using XML messages and for describing metadata, a hard issue has started to emerge. How do you store XML and retrieve it? Should you use SQL databases or the file system or an XML r

(Joe Gentry) Central Hudson Gas and Electric, a New York State utility company, wanted to find a way to improve its customer service by creating a Web-based platform where customers could view and retrieve bills online. Replacing or rewriting the company’s 20-year old mainframe billing application w

(Faheem Khan) In this third and final article of this series I demonstrate the use of Xerces, which is the most popular Java-based implementation of DOM. In this article’s first section I develop a couple of Java classes that can create and process SOAP messages. This will demonstrate the basic DOM

XForms are the next generation of Web forms! XForms use XML to create forms on the Web. In our XForms tutorial you will learn how to start using XForms in your applications.

(Edmond Woychowsky) My manager doesn’t like scrolling through page after page of tabular information when using a browser-based application. And the delay he experiences while waiting for the next page to load provides him the opportunity to exercise his vast knowledge of the more interesting parts

(Kieran Kelly) In a recent FAQ I explained how to create recursive XML using a somewhat complex stored procedure. This method is not very intuitive and seems to be forcing SQL Server to do something it wasn’t meant to do. In this FAQ I am going to use the same table and data from the previous FA

(Matt Nicholls) Whether it be SQL, HTML, XML, or even ASCII, odds are just about every application you’ve written has to generate a formatted String of some kind that represents the state of an object. Figure 1 shows a common (albeit bad) way to generate an INSERT SQL statement for a Customer object

(Gayathri Gokul) In this article, I’ll show you one of the greatest features about ADO 2.5, which allows us to access a recordset as an XML document, providing a different way to manipulate data.In this article, I’ll show you one of the greatest features about ADO 2.5, which allows us to access a re