by Alan Kotok – The emergence of XML as an important business tool has fueled its spread and encouraged scores, if not hundreds, of industry groups to develop business vocabularies using XML. For XML to work successfully in business, however, it needs to address the way business really operates or w

Momentum 2001 Documentum Worldwide User Conference – SoftQuad Software Ltd. (OTC.BB: SXML), an internationally recognized developer of XML enabling technologies, and Burntsand Inc. (TSE: BRT), a leading eBusiness solutions integrator, today announced a partnership to offer XML-based Web solutions. T

In this article, Java consultant Dennis Sosnoski compares the performance and functionality 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. Putting performance re

Content management software developer Interwoven Inc's product suite now supports Adobe Systems' Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) framework, an XML-based content labeling process. Sunnyvale, California-based Interwoven said it expects the move to strengthen its capabilities for automated m

Activity on the XML protocols front continues apace, with Phalanx System's WSDL wizard for COM, SSL support in pocketSOAP, XML protocol support in Applescript, and a new web services book from Wrox.

by Clay Shirky – That high-pitched sound you hear is the Web Services hype machine revving up, as words like "revolution' and "paradigm" begin making their regularly scheduled appearance in the press and white papers, where we are promised a Shiny New World of on-the-fly software cre

Matt Powell reveals the vulnerabilities XML Web Services have to attack from malicious users, and how to protect against them.

Thousands of downloads for RSSApplet show the popularity of displaying RSS news headlines on top notch Web sites. For all its simplicity, the limitations of such an applet solution can only be overcome with a server-side approach. Such a server-side solution is JERSS, a Java servlet for fetch

The JavaTM API for XML Messaging (JAXM) Optional Package enables applications to send and receive document oriented XML messages using a pure Java API. JAXM implements Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1 with Attachments messaging so that developers can focus on building, sending, receiving, an

by Kammie Kayl – James Kao, a senior technology partner with The Middleware Company, a training and consulting company specializing in JavaTM technologies and XML technologies, highlighted some of the key components of ebXML: Collaboration Protocol Profile (CPP), Collaboration Protocol Agreement (CP