(Shawn M. Lauriat) You need to take into account the scalability and maintainability of your Ajax application starting with the design phase. This chapter covers general best practices and the use of simple vs. rich interfaces.

(Bob Callaway) With the increasing adoption of Web services and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), ensuring the authenticity, integrity, and nonrepudiability of XML messages has become an essential component of secure and robust messaging infrastructures. Using a sample scenario, this article wa

(Kurt Cagle) The dilemma is common. Your web site starts out by design with a few pages of content—a front page, a products page, perhaps something about the company or person putting up the site—and you can generally manage the various links on the site by hand. However, as the site needs to do mor

(J. Jeffrey Hanson) This tutorial discusses the concepts of REST and the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) and shows how they apply to services. It also shows how to use Java technology to implement REST/APP-based services. (R)

(Dave Johnson, Alexei White and Andre Charland) AJAX has at least three main areas of risk: technical, cultural/political, and marketing risks:

It took me a while to figure out how to correctly output the results of a query with Cold Fusion as an XML formatted response. I had seen plenty of tutorials on how to actually write the XML file out on the web directory, but I wanted it available online so I could query it with AJAX and format the

(Andrew Mooney) This application will create simple HTML reports from a SQL Server database and automatically email them. It is a console application that takes a single XML file as an argument. This XML file contains all the settings for each report. Windows Task Scheduler is used start the applica

(Judith Myerson) Wouldn’t it be nice for developers if all browsers, computer models, and Ajax application users were the same? Maybe, but the reality is that they are not. Developers face a myriad of challenges when developing applications that behave predictably across browsers, computers, and ind

(Steve K Speicher and Andy Smith) The landscape of Web-based rich-text editing today includes blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and more. Learn how to extend the standard XForms set of controls to provide this rich text editing.

In one of our previous blog post, we had covered how to generate XML documents in Oracle. And in subsequent posts, we had covered some of the XML features in SQL Server 2005 – de-construct XML as relational data, difference between typed and un-typed XML, and the difference between element and attri