The W3C's Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has commenced formal meetings and mailing list discussion. The TAG, a group of nine people chaired by W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee, is chartered to focus on:
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BizTalk: E-Commerce the Microsoft Way II
Welcome back to the second part of our BizTalk tour. While we focused on the framework in our last installment, we are going to examine the BizTalk server and Web site now.
Java coding done right
By Peter Coffee – If there’s one thing that a Java development platform should be able to produce and host, it’s a first-rate integrated Java development environment. Many candidates for that title have come through eWEEK Labs, but Oracle Corp.’s Oracle9i JDeveloper 5.0 (which we reviewed in its lat
Quest consolidates Oracle database tools
By James Niccolai – QUEST SOFTWARE HAS consolidated several of its Oracle database management tools into a unified product called Quest Central for Oracle, a move that one analyst said could make life easier for database administrators.
XML Linking Language (XLink): Creating Powerful, Flexible Hypertext Structures
by Simon St.Laurent – XLink promises an enormous leap forward for hypertext on the Internet, while providing only a taste of what more hypertext-focused systems have attempted to deliver. As a former chair of the XLink working group put it, "XLink is hypertext for the 1970s." That marks a
Calling XML Web Services from Office VBA Using the Web Service References Tool
By Paul Cornell – The Web Service References Tool is used in the Microsoft Office Visual Basic Editor to create a Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) proxy class module from a selected Web Service Description Language (.wsdl) or Visual Studio .NET discovery (.vsdisco) file. This article describes ho
XForms Enters Last Call
The W3C XForms Working Group has released a new Last Call Working Draft of XForms 1.0. Feedback is requested at www-forms-editor@w3.org.A changelog indicates that most of the changes from the previous version were minor editorial issues and clarifications. More detailed information on the di
Pricing official for new Oracle software
By Ben Heskett – Oracle on Tuesday officially said it would alter the pricing methods for its business applications, after the news leaked out weeks ago. Executives said the plan could save customers 25 percent to 75 percent on license fees.
Building a Client-Side XML Application
By Tony Stewart – This presentation describes a project I was involved in last year, when I served as Director of Consulting at RivCom, an XML consulting firm based in the UK. The project, entitled "XML/EDI in the Transport Industry," was part of a larger European XML/EDI Pilot Project that
Getting Fancy with FOP
By Kurt Cagle – As with so many other terms, FOP has resurfaced with a different meaning—as an acronym for the Formatting-Object Processor, part of the Open Source Apache Project. The FOP processor performs an interesting stunt: it converts an XSL-FO file into an Adobe Postscript Description Format