The dream of using your remote control to interact with television broadcast shows has finally become a reality, thanks to interactive television (iTV). Here, John Papageorge explores the opportunities and challenges of creating applications for the set-top box platforms (such as OpenTV, AOLTV, and
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Corel jumps on XML, .Net for enterprise push
By Matt Berger – The Web services bandwagon made a stop at software maker Corel Corp., as the company announced plans to offer a line of enterprise software tools and services for creating "smart" content that can be tied to back-end servers and modified over the Internet.
In a Lather About Security
(Leigh Dodds) This week’s XML-Deviant column recounts a recent discussion about the security of SOAP, RPC, and REST.
Server Databases Clash
By Timothy Dyck – For four weeks last month and early this month, eWEEK and sister publication PC Magazine carried out a comprehensive benchmark of the latest available versions of five server databases. These tests showed us on a level playing field which database performed best when used with a J
Microsoft sharpens tools for SQL Server, BizTalk Server
By James Niccolai – Microsoft released two developer toolkits for building Web services on top of SQL Server 2000, its database product, and BizTalk Server, its software for tying together business applications.The releases coincide with the launch of Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net, whic
Corel jumps on XML, .Net for enterprise push
By Matt Berger – THE WEB SERVICES bandwagon made a stop at software maker Corel, as the company announced plans to offer a line of enterprise software tools and services for creating "smart" content that can be tied to back-end servers and modified over the Internet.The company unvei
New Interim Character Model Draft, Unicode in XML
The W3C has published a Working Draft of Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0 between a previous and an upcoming Last Call draft.
DML Statements
by Jason Price – This third column in my Learning SQLJ series explores how to add SQLJ statements to your Java programs that use embedded SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements. DML statements may be used to retrieve and modify the contents of database tables. In this article, you will also
Fine-Grained SQL Formulation
This tip comes from Eric T. Schmidt – Oracle 8.1.6 introduced 26 Analytic Functions that extend SQL in powerful and creative ways. With this new query formulation technique, it is easy to represent fine-grained control of complex queries without using complex sub queries, correlated queries, or PL/S
Reptile
Reptile is Java and XML -based distributed content syndication and management software with privacy protection from co-founders of the Jakarta Jetspeed project. The extensible architecture integrates several Web and P2P technologies to combine a Hypersonic SQL (hsql) persistent back end database wit