The most common operation XMLHTTP is used for is to retrive data, whether it be XML or something else, from remote servers via HTTP. It’s a useful trick to have, especially in these days of RDF/RSS feeds and so on, but the second method which XMLHTTP can be used for is perhaps one with less obvious
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Jacada Adds Web Services To Integration Platform
Jacada Ltd., a developer of enterprise application integration software, said it has made available Jacada Integrator 3.6, with full support for Web services protocols.Jacada Integrator creates reusable components out of applications running on IBM zSeries mainframe, IBM iSeries midrange com
Microsoft patches Windows 2000 flaw, SQL holes
By Sam Costello – Microsoft Corp. released a patch for a vulnerability it called “critical” that could allow an attacker to take complete control of Windows 2000 systems. The company also released a cumulative patch for SQL Sever 7.0 and 2000 that repaired a new security hole.
Empirical Hacker – Protect your database server
By Luis F. Medina – Will you be another statistic? Is the connection to your database server mutually exclusive? Has database security become an empirical concept among database administrators in your company? If the probability of an attack in the future is determined by your observations of securi
Using UTL_FILE to find files on the OS
By Steve Montgomerie – Here is how to use UTL_FILE to detect a file on the OS insead of writing a UNIX or DOS script. The procedure can be scheduled through DBA_JOBS to check for the existence of a file that has been FTP’ed, for example. Once the file has been detected, it calls another procedure to
Office Bets On XML Odds
By Ed Scannell – The next generation Office 11, scheduled to ship in 2003, will leverage XML so that it runs on a diverse collection of client devices from Tablet PCs, to PDAs, notebooks, and PCs. These devices in turn will facilitate user collaboration courtesy of a single Microsoft data sto
Building Oracle XML Applications
Book By Steve Muench – This rich and detailed look at the many Oracle tools that support XML development shows Java and PL/SQL developers how to combine the power of XML and XSLT with the speed, functionality, and reliability of the Oracle database.
XHTML 2.0 surfaces
The W3C has released Working Drafts of XHTML 2.0 and XFrames, as well as a second edition of the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation.
Tip: Include external information with general entities
By Nicholas Chase – General entities enable XML authors to conveniently include not only characters that would be difficult to represent directly, but also information that must be repeated. They also enable you to import information from another file, as well as from another location. This tip show
An ASP Class for XML Data Transfer
By Seth Juarez – Hey, I wrote the “A Couple of ASP Functions for XML Data Transfer” functions and, as any self-respecting programmer, was unhappy with its stiffness. I decided enough is enough and created an actual class that handles more things. clsXML.asp is the actual class and objXML.asp is an i