(Nicholas Chase) Uploading files is a fairly common task using HTML forms, but how do you do it in XForms, where the data gets stored as part of an XML document? This tip explains how to create an XForms form that enables the user to upload a file, and it explains how to create a Perl script that sa

(Dave Dolan) Quite simply, code generation involves taking a small amount of input and generating a large amount of code from it. Often the structure of the output is very complicated and verbose. One key feature of generated code is that it takes only a small variation in input to produce a vastly

(Dan Wahlin) ASP.NET AJAX provides several different ways to call Web Services including JavaScript, XML Script and the AutoCompleteExtender. In this video tutorial you will see how to call Web Services using JavaScript. Topics covered include creating a Web Service, applying the ScriptService attri

(Davor Gornik) XML files are used throughout software development and information management to describe data structures. In this article, you learn how to turn XML files into data models, and vice versa, with the help of IBM Rational Data Architect.

(Andrew Tweddle) A while back, a colleague created a daily build process using FinalBuilder. As well as building the executable, this also tested the SQL deployment scripts on a recent copy of each customer’s database.

(Tomas Nielsen) Beginning with release 6.5, IBM Lotus Notes offered integrated instant messaging and presence awareness in its applications, including the standard Notes mail template, and enabled developers to add the same features to their custom applications. Wouldn’t it be great to add the same

(Jagadish Chaterjee) This is the first article in a series focused on developing XSLT-oriented applications using ASP.NET 2.0. Even though the title includes ASP.NET 2.0, I use it only as a transformation engine. The entire focus will be on working with XSLT. You can use any transformation engine ac

(Dan Wahlin) Microsoft’s ASP.NET AJAX technology provides a quick and simple way to add AJAX capabilities into new or existing Web pages. In this video tutorial you’ll see how to use the UpdatePanel, refresh it using triggers and detect when it has finished updating using the PageRequestManager al

(David Marston and Joanne Tong) XSLT 2.0, the latest specification released by the W3C, is a language for transforming XML documents. It includes numerous new features, with some specifically designed to address shortcomings in XSLT 1.0. In this collection of articles, you’ll get a high-level overvi

(William Brogden) The title “REST versus SOAP” is somewhat misleading. REST, which stands for Representational State Transfer, is a style rather than a standard. However, as discussed in my previous article, many software designers thinking about Web services have come to the conclusion that SOAP is