By Richard Karpinski – Swingtide, a startup with deep roots in Web services, launched this week and will deliver later this year a platform for helping enterprises make better use of XML-based Web services.Led by Jack Serfass and David Sweet, co-founders of directory and Web services vendor

by Rich Salz – You know the old saying, that a picture is worth a thousand words? There’s an awful lot of binary data out there, and XML is not going to replace it all or even a significant percentage. After all, what’s the benefit to xmlifying things like MPEG’s or program executables?

by Laurence Moroney – Defining data in XML and parsing it in XPath gives you considerable flexibility in presenting business data graphically. Learn how to write a chart server that creates dynamic business graphics from any XML source—in either Java or VB.NET.

While many software testing tool vendors provide rudimentary Web Services testing, very few vendors have presented plans for providing tools that will help companies test standards-based Service-oriented architectures, according to a report released today by ZapThink, LLC, an XML-focused industry an

A growing number of enterprise projects today call for a reliable method of binding Java objects to relational data — and doing so across a multitude of relational databases. Unfortunately (as many of us have learned the hard way) in-house solutions are painful to build and even harder to maintain