By Jim Rendon – The increasing adoption of Web services is beginning to clog enterprise networks with Extensible Markup Language (XML) traffic, causing a series of ramifications, from ballooning bandwidth requirements to the need for new application-layer devices and even changes in firewalls.

Templates are useful for breaking stylesheets into small, manageable units. Another benefit of templates is that the processor selects the most appropriate one automatically, based on the matching condition. Most templates match on elements, but as Benoît Marchal demonstrates in this tip, a template

BEA CTO Scott Dietzen describes how BEA can help .NET development teams achieve secure interoperability with Java-based Web services.

This article describes how to create an InfoPath form template and how to modify Template.xml. You must modify Template.xml in your form template so that the forms that you create with the template can be formatted to display correctly in Internet Explorer.

by Micah Dubinko – If you work with forms, HTML, or XML information, “XForms Essentials” will provide you with a much simpler route to more sophisticated interactions with users. This sample chapter discusses real-world examples, host language issues, linking attributes, and more.

by John E. Simpson – Q: What namespace prefix should I use in a W3C Schema? Although the W3 Schema specification uses the namespace prefix xsd:, it looks as though in current practice only xs: is used. Could you please confirm if this is the case and is the reason just that it is shorter? A

By Jim Rendon – As Web services become more common, companies will be forced to upgrade their networks to deal with growing amounts of bulky XML traffic, industry experts say.

by Brett McLaughlin – The one aspect of data processing with ContentHandler that the author didn’t cover in his last tip was attribute processing. While attributes are most commonly used for information transfer between an XML document and an XML processor, they also often contain valuable business

By Russ Nemhauser – This is the first of an intended two part article on using Web Services to provide information for a remote Windows application. In the article, the author shows how to create a Web service that provides information, then a Windows application that sits in the System Tray and mak

by Sameer Tyagi – Though frequently misunderstood, the handlers classes of JAX-RPC can be plugged dynamically into Web services