By Ed Scannell – HOPING TO BUILD a better bridge for its users to walk between the Microsoft .Net and J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) worlds, Compaq Global Services struck a deal to implement Iona's Orbix E2A platform as part of a new enterprise integration practice.

By Amy Newman – Sun took a three-pronged approach in its enhancements for this latest version. The key new feature is the addition of iPlanet Application Framework, a new application framework for which Sun is claiming a potential ten-fold improvement in developer productivity for organizations that

by Kendall Grant Clark – It seems inevitable that the W3C will eventually offer a standards document which it calls XML 2.0. The post-XML 1.0 period has seen the development of too many attendant technologies, has too often heard pleas for refactoring from the development community, and too many XML

by Martin Gudgin, Timothy Ewald – Using a web service involves a sender and a receiver exchanging at least one XML message. The format of that message must be defined so that the sender can construct it and the receiver can process it. The format of a message includes the overall structure of the tr

by : Atrax – By now, most of our readers are familiar, at least in principle, with XML – the w3c's platform neutral data markup language. However not everyone knows how to use XML with ASP. In this article, I'll run you through using ASP and JScript to open and read XML files. in the next ar

In this article, XML tool watcher Dennis Sosnoski compares the usability of several Java document models. It's not always clear what the tradeoffs are when you choose a model, and it can require extensive recoding to switch if you later change your mind. Combining sample code with analysis of th

By Paul Prescod – The basic model of a REST Web Service is that services are described as webs of linked resources. Typically the resources will be represented by dynamically generated XML documents but that is not necessarily the case. Just as with services based on COM, CORBA or SOAP, it is useful

Petr Cimprich announced the creation of an "entry point" and mailing list to develop Streaming Transformations for XML (STX).

by Paul Prescod – In this article I discuss the applicability to REST of several industry buzzwords such as reliability, orchestration, security, asynchrony, and auditing. Intuitively, it seems that the Web technologies are not sophisticated enough to handle the requirements for large-scale inter-bu

by Cameron Laird – Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations (XSLT) is a computing language specialized for mapping XML documents into other XML documents.Explanation of XSLT is no small ambition. The problem has to do with variety; there are many uses for XSLT, many instances of XS