By Elizabeth Montalbano – At PartnerWorld, IBM plans to unveil a new developer subscription service and a host of programs to help partners deploy Web services, an IBM executive said. The new developer service, called IBM developerWorks Toolbox, is similar to Microsoft Developer Network and M

By Hitesh Seth – One thing weve learned from Web-based application development is that tools are useful only if they can reuse components and third-party libraries and make it easy to assemble applications. This article reviews how we can build modular speech applications using VoiceXML. The focus w

By Alfredo Gutierrez – IBM has defined e-business on demand as an enterprise whose business processes — integrated end-to-end across the company and with key partners, suppliers, and customers — can respond with speed to any customer demand, market opportunity, or external threat. Are you wonderin

by Karl Cushing – Microsoft aims to muscle in further on the lucrative healthcare market with the summer launch of InfoPath, its XML-based information gathering and document creation application.

“Too many cooks spoil the broth” describes the state of proposed Web service extension “standards.” Roger Jennings examines how the standards race threatens Web services interoperability.

by Michael Fitzgerald, Tomoharu ASAMI – Relaxer is a Java schema compiler for the XML schema languages RELAX NG and Relax Core. Using the Document Object Model, among other APIs, Relaxer generates Java classes based on schemas. It can also create classes based on XML document instances. The classes

In this article you’ll learn about basics of XML processing in .NET. More specifically, this article includes Visual Basic .NET, C# .NET, and C++ .NET code examples to illustrate:

By Hitesh Seth – As an open standard, VoiceXML truly leverages the knowledge and products that the industry has developed around Advanced Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS), telephony interfaces, voice printing, and Voice over IP (VoIP). As an open standard, what VoiceXML has made possib

Continuing our charting of the XMLMap we examine the use of XML as a content description and content transfer format. Discussions about tagging documents with meta data and publishing documents to Web servers conincided with the development of XML, and created first ideas on how to use XML in or wit

Community standards have had a very important role in XML technology, from SAX to RDDL. The most important community standard for XSLT is the EXSLT initiative for standard extension functions and elements. In this article, Uche Ogbuji uses practical examples to introduce and demonstrate some useful