(Kyle Gabhart, Paul Visan, Rick Hightower, David Fraser, Peter Schmitz and Jacob Weintraub) This tutorial will provide you with hands-on experience securing Web services with the IBM WebSphere SDK for Web services V5.1 (WSDK). More specifically, you will learn how to secure a WSDK SOAP service using

In this XQuery tutorial you will learn what XQuery is. You will learn how to use XQuery to extract data from your XML documents.

(A. Russell Jones) XML is a fundamentally simple idea—take bits of content and give them identifying tags—but it has far-reaching effects. In just a few short years, XML’s evolution has sparked an explosion of innovation that’s touched nearly every facet of computing, even the most basic computing b

(Ronald Bourret) This paper summarizes two different mappings. The first part of the process, generally known as XML data binding, maps the W3C’s XML Schemas to object schemas. The second, known as object-relational mapping, maps object schemas to relational database schemas. The two mappings can

(Bilal Siddiqui) In the previous column of this series, we discussed the usage model of Web Services Security (WSS) and introduced WSS4J, a Java-based API for WSS, a project we will be constructing through this series. In this column, we start implementing the WSS4J API. The first section of thi

(Jeremy Geelan) The visionary in question was Allan Vermeulen, coauthor of the codehead’s classic The Elements of Java Style, and now CTO of the world’s largest online retailer, Amazon. com. The Edison employee was Sam Unsell, whose contribution to the development of technology – Vermeulen explained

(Jim Wagner) Furthering its commitment to Java developers, BEA Systems launched two programming aides and a Web site tracking standards-based initiatives. The Java Page Flow Portability Kit and XML Beans as Apache Project are just the two latest developer tools released by the San Jose, Calif.-b

XPath is a set of syntax rules for defining parts of an XML document. XPath is a major element in the W3C XSLT standard. Without XPath knowledge you will not be able to create XSLT documents.

(Edd Dumbill) At the opening of this year’s XML USA conference in Philadephia, PA, smart XML documents were the star. Keynotes from Jon Udell of InfoWorld and Shantanu Narayen of Adobe focused on XML documents that conveyed the nuance of real world communication. Udell spoke of the importance of

Goal: Using the following XML, insert three node records in the node table and then three two subnode records into the subnode table with a reference to the correct parent node. The node table uses a GUID as the node key.