Interview by Steve Gillmor – According to Adam Bosworth, Microsoft alumnus and founder and CTO of Crossgain Corporation, another perspective of Web services is as the next generation of n-tier architecture. Editor in Chief Steve Gillmor talks with Bosworth about the roles of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and Cro

West Coast's premier XML training event co-locates with new Web Services conference! It's not often that something this good gets even better. So mark your calendar and secure the funding for a training experience that will pay instant dividends for your career and your business. SIGS/101 Co

The IBM XML Registry/Repository (XRR) is a data management system that manages and provides services for XML artifacts including schemes (DTD, XSD), stylesheets (XSL) and instance documents (WSDL). User can use XRR to obtain an XML artifact automatically, search or browse for an XML artifact, deposi

by Kip Hampton – This is the third and final part of a series of articles meant to give quick introductions to some of the more popular Perl XML modules. In the last two months we have looked at the modules that implement the standard XML APIs and those that provide more Perlish XML interfaces. This

By Richard Karpinski – Later this month, UDDI.org will unveil version 2.0 of its specification for helping companies find each other via the Internet. UDDI provides an XML-based method for businesses to describe themselves and the Web-based services they offer. The UDDI Business Registry is t

By JOHN COX – The ebXML specification — which will be supported in assorted e-commerce software packages — is designed to create a standard XML dialect that will let businesses find each other on the Internet, form trading partner agreements and electronically exchange business documents.

Forte for Java 3.0 lets developers use Enterprise JavaBeans components not only to build enterprise applications, but also to create, publish, and subscribe to XML-based Web services.

Recently released Perl modules for processing XML include XML::XSLT::Wrapper and XML::SAXDriver::CSV. XML::XSLT::Wrapper provides a unified interface from Perl to a variety of XSLT processors. Release 0.32 brings speedups, passing of input either as a string or as a filename, and various

by Kendall Grant Clark – Thinking clearly about the social implications of computer technology always repays the investment it requires, especially when the computer technology in question is the Internet and the Web, both of which have been called revolutionary by their boosters. And it always pays

Java architects and managers face the challenge of choosing among Swing-based, HTML-based, and XML-based front ends for their applications. In this article, Alex Kalinovsky shares his experiences with these three technologies, and provides criteria and tips for choosing among them in your Java devel