by Kevin Jones – Writing Web Services Description Language (WSDL) can be a chore because of its complexity and tediousness—not to mention the error-prone tools for writing it. See how to return dynamic WSDL automatically.

By Hitesh Seth – To appreciate the value that XML brings to integration, I decided to talk with leading integration software providers who have used XML in various incarnations (a.k.a. markups) within their products and have extensively leveraged the benefits of XML.

by Frank Sommers – SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) has become synonymous with XML- based Web services. However, many real-world response-request-type Web services don’t use SOAP; instead, they pass XML messages directly over HTTP. This article discusses these two Web service design approaches.

by Bernhard Woehrlin – StrutsCX overcomes the limitations of the Struts Framework by enabling you to utilize XML, XSLT, and XPath technologies instead of its standard JavaServer Pages.

The label “web services” is incredibly generic. Like any promising and loosely defined technology trend, the concepts it describes will be subject to a great deal of speculation and bandwagoneering in the months to come. With the aim of providing a reference benchmark—and of separating posturing fro

by Kendall Grant Clark – In a recent weblog entry, one which has been picked up by Slashdot, Bray asks whether XML has become too hard for programmers. Faced with writing code “to process arbitrary incoming XML”, Bray confesses that the experience was “irritating, time-consuming, and error-prone” —

by Enrique Castro – Here’s a collaborative solution that employs Microsoft Excel spreadsheets in a simple, Web-based, peer-to-peer publish/subscribe service.

XPath is described in XPath 1.0 standard. In this tutorial selected XPath features are demonstrated on many examples.

In the second installment of his quest to make his data available wherever and whenever he wants by using SyncML, Edd Dumbill encounters Wireless Binary XML (WBXML) and examines the minimum functionality required for a SyncML server.

In our last extension of the XMLMap we closed with a discussion of ontologies and topic maps, both concepts for expressing semantics of resources. I received many questions on the rather abstract nature of these concepts, as well as their practical applications and implications. This installment tri