by Edd Dumbill – Signs of reality were setting in this week at XML DevCon 2001 in New York City. As vendors and professionals were feeling the pinch of the economic conditions, the cloud of dust raised by recent overmarketing was starting to settle.
Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML
SOAP Interoperability with Microsoft and Apache Toolkits – A step by step guide
SOAP Interoperability – a recent very hot topic on various SOAP mailing/discussion lists, is really an interesting area to focus on. A previous article was a brief introduction to write Web services with SOAP, and we wrote a simple Hello SOAP Web service. There are atleast forty toolkits available t
RDF Calendaring list gets underway
A new W3C mailing list has been created for those interested in the use of RDF in calendaring and scheduling scenarios. The list has been created in response to the widespread interest and embryonic work on calendaring in the RDF community. Announcing the list, Dan Brickley described its
TREX Basics
by J. David Eisenberg – In this article, we'll explore the TREX markup language for validating XML documents, focusing on validating a subset of XMLNews-Story Markup Language. Although the XMLNews-Story markup language has been superseded by the News Industry Text Format, we use the old version
MS SOAP Toolkit 2.0 Beta 1: Microsoft's ASP Implementation
SOAP Toolkit 2.0 Beta 1 makes it possible to call services and publish them according to two Application Program Interface (API) levels: high or low. The choice will depend on the characteristics of the SOAP message that you wish to send or the level of monitoring of the service to be called.
W3C Working Draft on Media Queries Supports Single-Source Content for Multiple Devices
As part of the W3C Style Activity, the W3C CSS working group has released a working draft specification for Media Queries that would apply to CSS and HTML. According to the abstract: "HTML4 and CSS2 currently support media-dependent style sheets tailored for different media types. For example, a
A Web Services Primer
by Venu Vasudevan – Looking back over the last six years, it is hard to imagine networked computing without the Web. The reason why the Web succeeded where earlier hypertext schemes failed can be traced to a couple of basic factors: simplicity and ubiquity. From a service provider's (e.g. an e-s
XML & Binary Data
XML solves varieties of problems. Keep in mind that XML is not only for web. It can be used for virtually any kind of application – depends on your imagination. It's best suited to pass data across machines running different platform/operating system, because everybody understands plain text
Jato: Open Source Java/XML Translator
Andy Krumel recently announced the 'Beta 3 preview release 2' version of Jato, a new library for converting between Java and XML. The preview release contains the initial version of the Jato debugger and improved expression support. With development hosted on SourceForge, Jato is "a GPL
A Brief History of SOAP
by Don Box – It's been a little more than three years since I first started working in XML in general and SOAP in particular. For the past year or so, my own SOAP work has been pretty minimal, mainly because without a stable XML Schema specification, the thought of building tons of SOAP support