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16401 of 17342 | Using JAXP 1.3; even in older JVMs! - JAXP 1.3 is the latest release of the Java API for XML processing and it is part of Tiger. Tiger is great, but, what do you do if you can`t switch to Tiger right away...

16402 of 17342 | Web Services Expert Tim Ewald has Joined Mindreef - Tim Ewald, formly of Microsoft, will focus on helping customers understand the requirements and processes for delivering reliable, scalable Web services and SOAs. "My experience has taught me that, though Web services and SOA offer tremendous promise, they also introduce increased complexity and the potential for serious communication issues"....

16403 of 17342 | Web Services in Workshop 8.1: XML Impedance Matching - When creating a Web Service, a developer typically will start with an existing WSDL, an existing implementation, or some combination of the two. In this article we examine some of the features of WebLogic Workshop 8.1 that make these web services robust to changes in the WSDL or implementation datatypes....

16404 of 17342 | Web Services Reliable Messaging - An Update - Reliable Messaging holds a special interest for me, having played a significant part in my career (in the manifestation of various technologies such MQSeries, MSMQ, and, most recently, the products of Envoy) over the past ten years. Therefore it is......

16405 of 17342 | Web Services Security SOAP Messages with Attachments (SwA) Interoperability - Sun successfully participated in the OASIS Web Services Security for SOAP Messages with Attachments (SwA) virtual interop held from 11/15/04-11/19/04. Click here for more details....

16406 of 17342 | Web Services Version Mania - This past week I attended Oracle`s Developer Days in New Jersey. The sessions basically covered Oracle`s pitch on SOA - although, unsurprisingly, after an initial high level SOA level-set, it seemed to focus more on the presentation, business and persistence......

16407 of 17342 | What is in JWSDP 1.4... - Sun has announced that it will release JWSDP 1.4 in the very near future. New features in this release include support for additional containers and support for two key news specs: BP 1.1 with Attachements Profile 1.0 from WS-I and Web Services Security from OASIS. Stay tuned to this channel for the actual release of the bits....

16408 of 17342 | Wiki pages for Implementations & Uses - I`ve addedd an entry for JAXB at Javapedia.JAXB in the Javapedia and one for Javawsxml.JaxbSI in the WS & XML Wiki. The latter can help to track implementations and uses of this project, please add content if appropriate....

16409 of 17342 | WS-Beers - Glen has a write up on the WS-Beers get together last night, was a lot of fun, some very interesting discussions. One issue that Glen raised, and I totally agree with is when you decide to dump a toolkit and just generate/parse the xml yourself, you must remember to perform the soap processing model rules, Scott Hanselman conveniently posted an example today that skips that step, remember to check for those mustUnderstand headers kids....

16410 of 17342 | WS-Kernel and WS-Vertigo - I was virtually (IRC/Conf-Call) attending the W3C Addressing working group F2F when i ran across this post from Steve talking about WS-Kernel and found an email from Anne Thomas Manes talking about WS-Vertigo. Since am talking about Anne....Anne, Thanks for......

16411 of 17342 | WSCF 0.4: Web services Contract-First Design & Development - for real! - OK, it`s about time. There has been a lot of buzz around schema-based contract-first Web services design & developmentlately. Nearly everybody thinks that it is a good thing, and that we finally should reach a state where we all can live and breath it. But most people have been complaining about the lack of tool support for the so called `first step`. We have two big steps involved: Design your contract`s messages and interface Generate code from the contract Our WSCF (aka WsContractFirst) tool has been quite good at the last one of the two points: code generation. But there always was a missing link to how to design and model the contract effectively. Now we from thinktecture are proud to......

16412 of 17342 | XInclude - It`s often convenient to divide long XML documents into multiple files. The classic example is a book, customarily divided in chapters. Each chapter may be further subdivided into sections. Traditionally this has implemented via external entity references. For example,...

16413 of 17342 | XML developers push for simplicity at XML conference - Last week, a conference Applied XML Developer`s Conference, got developers together to talk XML. Experts such as Tim Bray, Sam Ruby, Chris Sells, and Don Box all talked, disagreed, and publicly challenged each other. One core idea was that yes: data does outlast its code....

16414 of 17342 | .NET My Services goes live. - "My Lists", "My Photos", "My Profile" .... sounds all very familiar over there in MSN Spaces. So ... roll in the Web service interfaces, please. ...

16415 of 17342 | Heartland Developer`s Conference was a Blast! - Speaking and being at the Heartland Developer`s Conference was an absolute blast! As Rocky said, Joe Olsen, Kent, and the other organizers should be proud and for a V1.0 product have outdone themselves. They sold out at 150 people in less than 3 weeks. I want to first thank Joe Olsen and Omaha.NET for sponsoring me through INETA. These folks were super and any INETA speaker should be nothing but proud to go out and speak for these folks and the other fine Midwest user groups. I already alluded to the super 2 and 1/2 hour conversation I had with fellow INETA Speaker Rocky Lhotka that was a peak experience for me and apparently scared some folks-) Rocky is so smart and I just had one of thos......

16416 of 17342 | JSP Conversion Articles and Web Services Interoperability - I am working with several groups of developers that have an extensive background in Java and are currently learning .NET.  It was admittedly difficult to find some of this information using MSN Search or Google as most articles that mention both "Java and C#" or "J2EE and .NET" end with "this platform is better than the other".  The links below simply detail the differences between platforms and show how to move to C# without the zealotry. Speaking of web services interop, make sure you sign up for the Interop Month web casts.  Microsoft is offering a month-long webcast series focusing on interoperability why it matters to the business, common strategies and methods, and guidance on speci......

16417 of 17342 | Quotes of the day - I arrived at work and found 200+ new posts in xml-dev list. Lovely. XML is still extra hot topic. Here are some nice quotes: For my money, XQuery is a heroic effort by a bunch of incredibly smart people which is crippled - we don`t know how seriously - by its insistence on cohabiting with XSD. Tim Bray XSLT has an construct that does a shallow copy of an element node together with all its namespaces (yes, you`re right, I wouldn`t expect anyone to guess its specification by looking at the element name, any more than I would expect anyone to guess what a left outer join operator does). XQuery has no equivalent. My XQuery example used a computed element constructor, which is the equ......

16418 of 17342 | Sun and Microsoft moving towards digital identity interop - On December 1st, a news teleconference was held that discussed some of the progress that Sun and Microsoft have made since swapping hockey jerseys.  The transcript of the Sun and Microsoft news conference is available online, and there is some great information tucked within. Hi, so today, as you`re probably all aware, there are two major stacks, software stacks around Web services, there`s the Liberty technologies, and there are the technologies around WS Star, the federation and security protocols. One of the things that we`ve heard time and time again from our customers is that they would like to be able to build systems that can work in either direction. So, for example, if we had Micr......

16419 of 17342 | Internet Time and the Long Now - I wish to thank Edd Dumbill for syndicating the Metaphorical Web on his superb blog aggregator site http://planet.xmlhack.com. It`s an honor and a privilege, and I hope to be able to produce commentary in keeping with the luminaries on this board. I`ve been pondering for a while the state of the XML world. XML has now been in existence as a standard for nearly seven years. XSLT and XPath for six, SVG for four and change. By the scale of Internet time (how retrograde that expression seems now) these technologies are no longer bright and shiny new, but are actually approaching middle-aged. Heck, Microsoft would have gone through two world changing marketing campaigns by now, and would be gear......

16420 of 17342 | A VS.NET Add-In for "Contract First" development - Disclaimer: There is a good chance you have already heard of this Add-In and/or the concept of contract-first development of Web Services. I just felt I would be remiss for not having a link to it ... even if it has existed longer than this blog has. Heck, even if I`ve just made it easier to find, I`ve done my part. As I`ve said before, if you`re designing and developing Web Services, the most important thing you should be thinking about is what that XML message will look like on the wire. The easiest way to do that is to create the WSDL document first. I know this isn`t very intuitive the first couple of times, but if you`re comfortable with XSD, you can probably copy/paste/modify......

16421 of 17342 | Adeptia Releases the XML Mapper for Easy and Rapid Data Integration - Allows graphical data mapping and auto-generation of programming codeChicago, IL November 23, 2004 -- Adeptia Inc., an innovative provider of business process management technologies, announced today the release of Adeptia XML Mapper version 1.0, a data mapping software with comprehensive functionality to make easier the task of enterprise-wide data integration....

16422 of 17342 | Boeing Australia Expands XyEnterprise XML Content Management and Publishing Solution - XyEnterprise Technology Drives Content Management, Standards Support, and Automated High-Volume Publishing for Aerospace Technical Support OperationsREADING, Mass.--Nov. 30, 2004--XyEnterprise, the leading developer of XML content management and enterprise publishing solutions, announced today that Boeing Australia has expanded its use of the XyEnterprise Content@ content manager application for the structured content required to support a wide variety of Boeing military aircraft and systems. The solution, in production for several years, provides content management and publishing services for Airline Transport Association (ATA) and Continuous Acquisition and Lifecycle Support (CALS) standa......

16423 of 17342 | Book Announcement - Developing Semantic Web Services - Developing Semantic Web ServicesH. Peter Alesso and Craig F. SmithISBN: 1-56881-212-4REVIEW:Developing Semantic Web Services is "well-informed about work on WS [Web Services] and the SemWeb [Semantic Web], and in particular ... understand[s] OWL-S ... very well .... Also, the book ... fill[s] a need that, to my knowledge, hasn`t been met at all." -David Martin, editor OWL-S Coalition...

16424 of 17342 | Download Service Pack 2 of Web Services Enhancements (WSE) - This newly released service pack addresses customer issues and provides a new Kerberos token that enables support for constrained delegation and clustering scenarios....

16425 of 17342 | Features: Hacking iTunes - Niel Bornstein, Mono and C# hacker extraordinaire, returns with a look at Apple`s iTunes service and XML vocabulary, connecting iTunes to Google and Amazon. ...

16426 of 17342 | Forum Systems Enables Adaptive Migration Towards Secure Event-Driven Web Services - Version 4.1 of Award-Winning Forum Sentry Web Services Security Gateway Defines the Service-Oriented Security IntermediarySALT LAKE CITY--Nov. 30, 2004--Forum Systems, a leading provider of trust management, threat protection and information assurance Web services security solutions has today announced the availability of Version 4.1 for its award-winning Forum Sentry(TM) Web Services Security Gateway. Forum Sentry 4.1 has evolved from securing Web services within service-oriented architectures to protecting event-driven applications, allowing for the reliability and robustness enterprises are looking for to deal with exceptions and fluctuations in complex asynchronous software services suc......

16427 of 17342 | Fox Sports Interactive Media Selects Sarvega`s XML Speedway Accelerator for FOXSports.com on MSN - Sarvega`s XML Speedway Accelerator Provides Wire Speed XSL Transformation (XSLT) Performance for Dynamic Delivery of Real-Time InformationCHICAGO--Nov. 29, 2004--Sarvega announced today that Fox Sports Interactive Media, the leader in interactive sports programming, is using Sarvega`s XML accelerator, the XML Speedway, for FOXSports.com on MSN....

16428 of 17342 | Hands on Labs for WSE --Also in VB!!! - Hidden deep on the WSE page of the MSDN Web Services Developer Center are two Hands On Labs for getting up to speed with WSE around messaging and using policy to implement secure Web services.  These are great ways to get your feet wet with WSE and dig pretty darn deep into the capabilities WSE provides. But the original labs were only available in C#.  We just posted new versions that were tested w/ the new SP2 release of WSE 2.0...and now the download also includes Visual Basic versions of the labs! Thanks to Mark for getting these ready for prime time, and for Aaron for creating them in the first place.    -Matt...

16429 of 17342 | IBM, Microsoft, and Sun Respond to TAC Recommendation on Open Document Exchange Format - The Telematics Between Administrations Committee (TAC) reports that it has received positive responses from Sun, Microsoft, and IBM relative to the IDA Expert Group recommendations on adoption of an Open Document Exchange Format.In May 2004 the Telematics Between Administrations Committee of the EC`s IDA Community Programme announced its approval of the Expert Group`s conclusions and recommendations on open document formats, with special focus upon XML formats in OpenOffice.Org and WordML....

16430 of 17342 | Insurance that SOA works - The Hartford Financial Services Group created an SOA-based reference architecture using a UDDI registry to simplify application component reuse.Insurance and security may be what The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. offers its customers worldwide. But it`s also what the investment and insurance provider`s application delivery group was looking for when it created an SOA-based reference architecture using a UDDI registry so that the company`s four lines of business could leverage the same applications....

16431 of 17342 | Intergraph Successful in GML Relay - HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Dec. 2, 2004 -- Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions Netherlands successfully participated in the third GML Relay at the "Standards in Action" event held at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. The event demonstrates the easy, open exchange of spatial data using the Open Geospatial Consortium`s (OGC) Geographic Markup Language (GML) standard. The GML standard is an XML encoding for spatial data and related attributes used for storing and transporting geospatial information.At the GML Relay, Intergraph joined a record number of attendees including other geospatial vendors; attendees from leading Dutch Universities; national and regional government dep......

16432 of 17342 | Inventive Designers releases Scriptura XBOS V3.0 - Inventive Designers releases Scriptura XBOS V3.0, the XSL business output suite. This multi-platform output solution is based on open standards (XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, SOAP ...). Its modular architecture allows you to start from a basic setup and add functionality as your business requirements evolve. New features include XSL-FO import, support for text/spooled file data sources, improved paragraph properties, container object groups, watermarks, a final format preview, output to AFP & RTF, an event handler, a C++ API and much more. See www.inventivedesigners.com/scriptura for more information....

16433 of 17342 | It`s Here! WSE 2.0 SP2 - Today Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Web Services Enhancements 2.0.  Update your install today.  For those who grabbed the SP2 pre-release, there are some small changes in the final version so you will want to make sure you get the final (the pre-release is no longer available).  Check out the "Changes for This Release" section in the Readme. Here`s my top 3 list of new features: You can configure what version of WSE 2 that you want your messages to be compatible with (RTM, SP1, SP2).  On the receiving end WSE can deal with whatever version is sent it. Encrypting UsernameTokens is now the default. Better Kerberos support Also, the documentation has been updated and is available onli......

16434 of 17342 | IXIASOFT: Command Financial Press Launches CAPS, a Content Management Solution for Prospectus Automation, Based on TEXTML Server - MONTREAL -- Dec. 1, 2004 -- Exhibiting at Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies, Booth #136.New web-based editing tool cuts costs and improves accuracy of preparing complex financial documentsIXIASOFT, the native XML database and search engine market leader, announced today that Command Financial Press, an industry leading full service financial printer, is launching a new content management solution for prospectus automation called CAPS. Aimed at financial institutions, law firms and large corporations, CAPS (Command Automated Publishing System) has integrated IXIASOFT`s flagship product TEXTML Server to manage XML content....

16435 of 17342 | Oxygen XML Editor adds an XSLT Debugger - The latest release of Oxygen XML Editor improves the XSLT editing and transformation support and adds a full featured XSLT Debugger. Now complex transformations can be executed involving multiple stylesheets and macros can be used when configuring scenarios for a greater reuse. When editing an XSLT a schema/DTD for the transformation result can be set and the content completion will offer the elements and attributes from that target schema where appropriate. The XSLT Debugger supports both Xalan and Saxon as XSLT engines and provides full debugger options: step into, step over, run to cursor, run to end, pause, stop, breakpoints, call stack, trace history, XPath expression watch, variables ......

16436 of 17342 | Oxygen XML Editor adds XSLT 2.0 editing and debugging support - Version 5 of Oxygen XML Editor adds XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 capabilities to the editor and debugger. The XSLT Debugger was improved with support for mapping from the output transformation result to the source and stylesheet locations and was tested with complex stylesheets, the DocBook stylesheets for instance. The dynamic content completion support also should be noted as this allows presenting information already entered in the stylesheet to the user where appropriate....

16437 of 17342 | PeopleSoft Demonstrates WSRP Portal Interoperability at XML 2004; First Enterprise Application Vendor to Support the OASIS Standard for Application Content - XML 2004 -- PLEASANTON, Calif.--Nov. 18, 2004--At the XML Conference and Exposition 2004, PeopleSoft Inc. (NASDAQ:PSFT) demonstrated that the PeopleSoft Community Portal and PeopleSoft applications seamlessly interoperate with other leading portal vendors by leveraging the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) standard. As part of the demonstration, PeopleSoft portal content was displayed in IBM WebSphere, BEA, Sun Microsystems and other leading portal solutions. PeopleSoft will be the first enterprise applications software vendor to integrate content from core business applications with third party portals using the WSRP standard."Companies increasingly need to aggregate data across mult......

16438 of 17342 | Python and XML: Location, Location, Location - Uche Ogbuji`s Python and XML column this month describes some techniques for determing node or parse event locations, expressed in XPath, when parsing XML with DOM or SAX. ...

16439 of 17342 | RenderX Announces New Version - XEP.NET Released - RenderX has released XEP.NET, a Visual J#/.NET port of XEP, RenderX`s XSL Formatting engine. It consists of 100% manageable code, no Java or native libraries are required to run it. Its functionality and XSL FO support level are identical to RenderX`s Java version. The XEP.NET core is wrapped in an API that exposes standard .NET interfaces for XML processing: XmlReader and XmlWriter. This public API is a .NET class library component that can be used from .NET programming language, such as Visual C#.NET, Visual Basic.NET, and Visual J#.NET. Additionally, the software includes a .NET class library for MSXML integration, with C# source codes included. This integration component allows use of M......

16440 of 17342 | Research and Markets : Achieving Interoperabilty With Emerging Technology Standards: 2004 to 2005 Outlook - DUBLIN, Ireland--Nov. 24, 2004--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c10033) has announced the addition of Achieving Interoperabilty With Emerging Technology Standards: 2004 to 2005 Outlook to their offeringInteroperability--the seamless exchange of information both within a company`s internal systems and in conjunction with its external trading partners` systems--is critical to the advance of electronic commerce. Emerging technology standards such as XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, and ebXML are driving interoperability, both internal and external. These standards are changing the economics of digital information exchange. By introducing a standard means of binding applic......

16441 of 17342 | RTF2FO 3.3.3 - Novosoft Inc., is pleased to announce the new 3.3.3 version of RTF2FO converter. RTF2FO 3.3.3 enhances and streamlines process of converting RTF documents to XML ones in line with the W3C specifications for XSL FO formatting semantics. The new version is available for evaluation at http://www.rtf2fo.com/download.html...

16442 of 17342 | Sarvega and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies Create XML Security Research Lab - Leading Organizations Team to Investigate XML Security Threats for Global 1000 Companies and GovernmentsCHICAGO--Nov. 24, 2004--Sarvega, Inc., the leading provider of XML networking products, and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), a renowned think tank focusing on global information security and defense initiatives, today announced the creation of the Advanced XML Security Lab ("AXSL"). The two organizations will contribute resources and expertise to AXSL to conduct advanced research into XML Web Services security, XML vulnerabilities, and the secure exchange of information amongst trading partners. Sarvega and CADS will investigate technologies that will accelerate the adoptio......

16443 of 17342 | Scriptura 2.1 - Scriptura 2.1. Inventive Designers releases Scriptura 2.1, the cross-platform document design and generation solution based on XSLT and XSL-FO. It has a WYSIWYG design tool and an engine. The XSL-FO formatter used in the engine is no longer based on Apache FOP, but is written from scratch by Inventive Designers. The new features in this release are: support for bulleted and numbered lists, `break-before` and `break-after` properties, extended bar code options and improved number and currency formatting. A free trial version is available for download....

16444 of 17342 | Sun Microsystems and Microsoft Provide Progress Report on Technical Collaboration Agreement - On December 1, 2004, Microsoft Corporation and Sun Microsystems held a joint on-the-record open teleconference to report on the status of collaborative efforts toward interoperable computing solutions based upon terms of a 10-year Technical Collaboration Agreement concluded by the two companies in April 2004. Good progress is reported in establishing an intellectual property framework, Web services standards, storage solutions, and the use of Windows on Sun....

16445 of 17342 | Systinet Unveils First Business Services Registry for SOA - Latest Version of Proven Systinet Registry Provides the Standards-Based Foundation for SOA Governance and Lifecycle ManagementCAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 15, 2004 ? Systinet, the provider of the leading foundation for SOA governance and lifecycle management, today announced the release of Systinet Registry 5.5, the industry`s most complete and proven Business Services Registry. The Business Services Registry is the centerpiece of Systinet`s foundation for governance and lifecycle management within a service-oriented architecture (SOA)....

16446 of 17342 | Talking with Rocky at HDC - I had a great first night here at HDC in Des Moines hooking up with Kent Tegels, Robert, Adam, Rocky, Matt, Jeff and others for our reception. We of course beeing geeks set up the obligatory wireless network in Kent`s hotel room. I had a fascinating 2 and 1/2 hour free-ranging conversation with Rocky which started with SOA and went everywhere else. I don`t want to give it away for attendees who will have the keynote in an hour and 1/2 from now but lets just say that he is skepetical on SOA. Rocky and I both (in technology) go back to the DEC VAX/VMS days, myself having spent 6 years at Digital in the 80`s and we had a great conversation on SOA and .NET coming back to some of the ways of VMS......

16447 of 17342 | The OpenOffice Project has posted the first release candidate of OpenOffice 1.1.4, an open source office suite for Linux and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. - The OpenOffice Project has posted the first release candidate of OpenOffice 1.1.4, an open source office suite for Linux and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. I used the previous 1.0 version to write Effective XML. 1.1.4 is exclusively a bug fix release. OpenOffice is dual licensed under the LGPL and Sun Industry Standards Source License....

16448 of 17342 | Transforming XML: Using Customized Schema Constraints - In the return of Bob DuCharme`s Transforming XML column, he discusses ways to add customized constraints to schemas and how you can use XSLT as a bridge to implement them. ...

16449 of 17342 | Versioning Web Services - Don and Dare have been posting on versioning web service endpoints.  Don favors versioning with a single parameter, while Dare favors multiple parameters.  I agree with Don. Don makes a distinction between a service that is service-oriented and one that is not.  I am not sure I agree with the distinction, though.  This is akin to justifying 500 lines of code in Button1_Click events versus proper application design: jsut because you can, doesn`t mean you should, even in smaller scale scenarios.  If you version a service interface by adding parameters, then you affect the ability for legacy systems to version along with the system.  Instead of focusing on the message contract, they are now s......

16450 of 17342 | Viewing WSE Trace Files - One of the neat features of Microsoft`s WSE Toolkit is that with the click of a button you can have all incoming and outgoing SOAP messages from a client or service recorded in trace files. These files, named by default InputTrace.webinfo and OutputTrace.webinfo, can be helpful for debugging or for gaining a deeper understanding as to the actual XML being scurried back and forth between a client and a Web service. One thing that`s always irked me, though, is that these trace files are simply appended to with each run. This is fine and good, I guess, but it makes it hard to pick through these logs. Every time I introduce WSE to my Web Services .NET students, I show them the tracing features,......