By Eric B. Parizo – Experts expect Web services security to be a key focus in 2003, and there are a number of companies eager to take advantage of the growing market niche. One of those firms is Westbridge Technology Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based startup. SearchWebServices.com recently spoke w

Today, eXtensible Markup Language (XML) has become the standard for communication between applications over the Internet. In particular, it serves as the protocol for accessing Web Services via SOAP. However, as messages are transported over the Internet, security problems can be considerable.

One of the great features of XML is that you can easily reuse your designs all the way down to the component level. In this first installment of a three-part series, columnist Kevin Williams provides an overview of XML reuse in enterprise-level solutions, with examples in both XML and XML Schema.

By James Niccolai – A Microsoft Corp. engineer had harsh words this week for vendors contributing to the plethora of Web services specifications, and advised developers to read less of them and get on with writing applications.

by Dan Wahlin – The powerful DataGrid control helps you display and collect data in a Web application. Download a sample app that shows how to extend its functionality and bind XML to it.

by Marc de Graauw – Topic Maps provide a very flexible and robust way to add arbitrary data to a relational databases at runtime. Moreover, Topic Maps come with a predefined exchange mechanism (the XML Topic Maps (XTM) interchange syntax) to allow data to be exported to XML.

Learn about XSD Inference, a utility that simplifies the task of writing schema by automatically generating schemas from instance documents.

XML-formatted files are fast becoming the preferred method of saving the configuration settings. The reasons for this include ease of parsing and processing, ability to transform (for instance to generate HTML report from the config settings), extensibility, and so on. The .NET Framework prov

Once again, Corel has improved the way organizations create and edit XML content. Introducing Corel® XMetaL® 4: a new set of tools designed to simplify the implementation of XML applications across an organization.

XML has spread like wildfire throughout the IT industry, creating a broad range of opportunities for developers. What’s the best way to take advantage of such opportunities? In the competitive world of software development, it’s important to stand above the crowd. Thus, some standard for measuring h