(Ash Parikh, Anthony Sangha and Murty Gurajada) This article is part of a series of short articles that introduce readers to the industry’s various Web services standards. These articles provide a quick introduction to these standards, their backgrounds, underlying architectures, benefits, status, a

(Lewis R Cunningham) “How do I get my XML document out of the database?” This is the second most common question I get. It’s usually followed up with “My DBA is afraid to use any feature added since 7.3 (or 8 or 8i, etc) so I am not allowed to use WebDAV, the internal HTTP server or Java in the […]

(Daniel B. Markham) It’s not the latest sequel to the “Jason versus Freddie” movie, it’s one of the decisions you need to make if you’re rolling out a Web 2.0 product. Make the wrong choice, and your project and reputation can suffer. Make the right choice, and you can be a hero. There aren’t any ea

(William Brogden) Early experiments with XML-based messaging using XML-RPC encouraged the development of an extension called SOAP. In the initial submission to the W3C, SOAP was said to stand for Simple Object Access Protocol. Many people have pointed out that SOAP is not particularly simple and doe

(Kris Hadlock) XML has bridged the gap between technologies and added a lot of power to Flash, allowing it to be more dynamic and flexible for building large applications. XML in Flash has been a possibility since Flash 5 with ActionScript 1, and significantly improved when it became a native object

(Sean Kelly) When Microsoft added the ActiveX XMLHTTP object to Internet Explorer’s implementation of JavaScript, the company planted the seed for the revolution in Web applications known as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or AJAX. Today, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and other browsers all support what

(Benoit Marchal) Since it was introduced in November 1999, I have found that XSLT, the XSL Transformations language, is one of the most useful (if not the most useful) tools you can use to manipulate XML documents. Many available APIs and tools work with XML documents from Java or other languages, a

(Bruce Perry) This article describes Prototype, an open source JavaScript library to create an object for an AJAX application. I explain how to use Prototype by describing an environmentally oriented web application that displays an annual atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) level. First, I will discus

(David C. Hays) Everyone knows that we are drowning in information, both from the databases in our companies as well as from the world-wide web, the media, and life in general. The information technology industry has been wrestling with this problem for years, and one is entitled to wonder if thing

(Bruce Wallace) With the increasingly popular AJAX paradigm, a browser page can make requests for server data in the background while the user interface continues to be active in the foreground (hence the “asynchronous” in AJAX). However, the problem exists that these two activities are typically ac