By Ed Scannell and Paul Krill – AS XML WORKS its way deeper into the enterprise, the database war heats up, with IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle wrestling over emerging query standards and database architectures.<Br><Br>Despite agreement that XML has become the lingua franca of the Internet, a lack of ti

Aleksey Sanin has released version 0.0.9 of the XML Security Library (xmlsec), an open-source libxml- and OpenSSL-based implementation of the joint IETF/W3C XML Signature (dsig) and W3C XML Encryption (xenc) specifications. This release fixes some major bugs found in the 0.0.8 release.

While whole countries go on vacation in August, the W3C churns out one candidate specification after the next. Determined to fix the problems that HTML accumulated over its ten years of development, the frameset feature is under review.

By CAROL SLIWA – IT professionals should wait for the Web Services Security specification to be finalized and implemented before they start building sophisticated Web services that extend beyond their company’s firewalls, according to the specification’s co-author.

by Will Provost – Pattern recognition is fundamental to the human intellect. In pursuits as varied as art appreciation, home repair, and software engineering, patterns naturally inform our thinking and help us to mature. The practice of pattern recognition and use was first formalized with respect t

By Darryl K. Taft – Palm Inc.’s Palm Solutions Group has teamed with BEA Systems Inc. to announce a long-term strategic relationship to deliver Web services to Palm-based handheld devices.Palm will develop tools and a device-side software suite for simplifying development and deployment of m

By Richard Karpinski – DataPower Technology said it has delivered a network device to speed the performance of XML-based Web services. The DataPower XA35 XML Accelerator can be deployed either alongside application servers — which store and deliver Web services — or downstream in the networ

by John E. Simpson – Last August, for the one-year anniversary of my stint as the XML Q&A columnist, I wrote a piece called “Nobody Asked Me, But…” It covered some rather strange questions that no one, to my knowledge, had submitted to the oreillynet.com XML forum. One of those bogus questions ask

By Darryl K. Taft – For the second day in a row at the XML Web Services One conference here, a keynote speaker got up and signaled the impending end to the Web services era, at least on a standards level. Don Box, an architect in Microsoft Corp.’s developer division told an audience of Web se

By David Mertz, Ph.D. – In this two-part series on XML editors, David looks at the progress of commercial tools in the year-and-a-half since he last looked at this tools category. These tools have progressed from largely cosmetic wrappers around text editors to fleshed-out development environments t