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16751 of 18438 | TopXML Reblogger now has categories - The TopXML RSS Reblogger now has 28 dynamically created XML-related categories for your reading pleasure. In addition you can read all posts by any individual blogger. And most important, you can click through to the original post or blog. Enjoy!...

16752 of 18438 | W3C Publishes Candidate Recommendation for xml:id Universal Identifier - The W3C XML Core Working Group has released "xml:id Version 1.0" as a Candidate Recommendation. It introduces a predefined attribute name that can always be treated as an ID and hence can always be recognized. The specification defines the meaning of the attribute `xml:id` as an ID attribute in XML documents and processing of the attribute to identify IDs in the absence of validation, without fetching external resources or relying on an internal subset....

16753 of 18438 | Will the real "service contract" please stand up - Tim and Clemens have been going back and forth over the importance of XSD/WSDL/Policy and its role inSO systems.This debate was spawned by Clemens posting some Indigo code containing a [ServiceContract] definition and arguing that you should "break the bad habit of angle brackets." Here`s a recap:Clemens: [Indigo code] is a perfectly reasonable way to share contract between server and client Staring at WSDL is about as interesting as looking at the output of "midl /Oicf".Tim: XML is not just an implementation detail, it is the implementation detail that actually makes this Web services thing work Remember that WSDL/XSD/Policy is the contract, period. Any other view of your contract is just ......

16754 of 18438 | WS-* vs. XML/HTTP - Since now, I will be pointing to Sam`s presentation every time anybody will be ranting about WS-* complexity compared to nice and simple XML/HTTP to me... (via Mark) Sam is working on the RSS/XML/Atom/HTTP very long time (unfortunately not on WS-* any more) and his blog provides the deepest (at least to what I know) insights to these topics. The......

16755 of 18438 | WSCF 0.5: New Features (III) - Here is the third new feature of WSCF 0.5 - thanks to a number of feedback messages from our users: Enhanced WSDL generation - Adding element for better interop We now optionally generate a element into the WSDL. Actually, we think that we just should create a `service-less` WSDL as an abstract interface description. And indeed, the service element is spec-wise not needed. But Mr. Interop discovered several problems when testing WSCF-generated WSDLs with some Java stacks. So this is for interop reasons, primarily. ...

16756 of 18438 | WSCF 0.5: New Features (IV) - Here is the fourth new feature of WSCF 0.5 - thanks to a number of feedback messages from our users: Enhanced code generation - Misc improvements -Enhanced properties: we now check for null references when we generate properties for private fields. -Constructors: we now generate some default ctor code for data classes so that you can set up your DTOs with one single line. -Collections: we now validate input parameters (i.e. nullity) for Add, IndexOf, Insert, Remove, and Contains. -Generated Web Service methods throw NotImplementedException by default. -XML documentation in /description/schema/.../element/annotation/documentation will be persisted in "" XML docs in code for generated type. ...

16757 of 18438 | WSCF 0.5: New Features (V) - Here is the fifth new feature of WSCF 0.5 - thanks to a number of feedback messages from our users: Enhanced code generation - ASMX Web Service help & doc pageWe now provide a working Web Service help page that the user can use when going to the .asmx endpoint with his browser. Currently we just disable this ‘documentation’ feature. This documentation page provides the same test and documentation features as the original one; but it intrinsically disallows calling ‘wsdl’ on the endpoint (returning a 404). Because we start from the WSDL we do not want to have the WSDL available through the endpoint (although it would be possible technically). ...

16758 of 18438 | Clemens and I disagree on the importance of angle-brackets - Clemens has a new post titled “Bad Habits to Give Up: Staring at Angle Brackets”. I agree, that is a bad habit to give up... you should keep doing it! :-) Seriously, though, that isn`t what he meant. Clemens perspective is that you should simply use Indigo`s native programming model to capture your contract and let WSDL generation happen under the covers for the people who need it. Specifically, he says that: Sharing this C# snippet here [ServiceContract]interface IHello{      [OperationContract]      string SayHello(string name); } is a perfectly reasonable way to share contract between server and client, if you’ll be sticking to Indigo. A service can expose all the WS-MetadataExchange and......

16759 of 18438 | Clemens says "Hello, World" via Indigo - "If you looked at the PDC 2003 Indigo bits, you will notice that the [Indigo] programming model changed quite a bit. I think that in fact, every single element of the programming model changed since then. And all for the better. The programming model is so intuitive by now that I am (almost) tempted to say `Alright, understood, next technology, please.`"...

16760 of 18438 | Comparing CSS and XSL: A Reply from Norm Walsh - XML.com: Comparing CSS and XSL: A Reply from Norm WalshThis is WAY TOO GOOD not to send out on the big wire... I`ll let Mr. Walsh do the rest of the talking. A quick intro:In Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL, H?kon Wium Lie and Michael Day launch an aggressive attack on my assertion that "web browsers suck at printing" and "CSS is never going to fix it." In retrospect, I regret the way that I expressed that. I suppose the shortest possible reply to their article would simply be "I was wrong. Cool!" For simple HTML documents, CSS can produce reasonable-looking print output. (Printing from web browsers still sucks, and I don`t see any evidence that that`s going to change in the near ......

16761 of 18438 | Indigo and BizTalk roadmap - One of the interesting questions that raises with the release of Indigo coming is how Indigo and BizTalk will relate now and in the future. A roadmap was presented about that during the VSLive keynote. Surprisingly nothing was announced for BizTalk 2004. BizTalk 2006 will have an indigo adapter, so connectivity is arranged through that, which is a very natural way. The version of BizTalk after 2006 will be build natively on Indigo, with both sounds great and a very long time from now. Nothing earthshaking if you ask me....

16762 of 18438 | Introducing Indigo: An Early Look - "David Chappell provides an architectural overview of `Indigo,` Microsoft`s unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. The paper covers Indigo`s relationship to existing distributed application technologies in the .NET Framework, the basics of creating and consuming Indigo services, and an overview of Indigo`s capabilities, including security, reliable messaging, and transaction support." The first article of a new Indigo programming model since PDC03 (and hopefully the one that`ll stick : )....

16763 of 18438 | OASIS Creates TC to Define Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Reference Model - A new SOA-RM Technical Committee has been formed by OASIS to establish a Reference Model to encourage the continued growth of specific and different SOA implementations while preserving a common layer that can be shared and understood between those or future implementations. The TC may also create specialized SOA models for vertical industries or technology families, and propose usage/implementation guidelines for creating reference model specializations....

16764 of 18438 | On the Complexity of XML APIs - David Megginson (the creator of SAX) has a post entitled The complexity of XML parsing APIs where he writes Dare Obasanjo recently posted a message to the xml-dev mailing list as part of the ancient and venerable binary XML permathread (just a bit down the list from attributes vs. elements, DOM vs. SAX, and why use CDATA). His message including the following: I dont understand this obsession with SAX and DOM. As APIs go they both suck[0,1]. Why would anyone come up with a simplified binary format then decide to cruft it up by layering a crufty XML API on it is beyond me. [0] http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2005/01/31/sax-the-bad-the-good-and-the-controversial/ [1] http://......

16765 of 18438 | On the Complexity of XML APIs - David Megginson (the creator of SAX) has a post entitled The complexity of XML parsing APIs where he writes Dare Obasanjo recently posted a message to the xml-dev mailing list as part of the ancient and venerable binary XML permathread (just a bit down the list from attributes vs. elements, DOM vs. SAX, and why use CDATA?). His message including the following: I don’t understand this obsession with SAX and DOM. As APIs go they both suck[0,1]. Why would anyone come up with a simplified binary format then decide to cruft it up by layering a crufty XML API on it is beyond me. [0] http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2005/01/31/sax-the-bad-......

16766 of 18438 | On the Complexity of XML APIs - David Megginson (the creator of SAX) has a post entitled The complexity of XML parsing APIs where he writes Dare Obasanjo recently posted a message to the xml-dev mailing list as part of the ancient and venerable binary XML permathread (just a bit down the list from attributes vs. elements, DOM vs. SAX, and why use CDATA?). His message including the following: I don’t understand this obsession with SAX and DOM. As APIs go they both suck[0,1]. Why would anyone come up with a simplified binary format then decide to cruft it up by layering a crufty XML API on it is beyond me. [0] http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2005/01/31/sax-the-bad-......

16767 of 18438 | Pluralsight Training Curriculum - Here at Pluralsight we`ve been busy getting our new training catalog in place for 2005. We`re now offering nine courses, and currently have a few more in the works. The entire catalog available in PDF format in case you`re interested (contact Bill here). We have organized our curriculum into three series:Applied SeriesIntroducing SeriesCampsight SeriesCourses in the "Applied Series" are designed to teach developers how to apply a particular technology with a strong focus on best practices, pragmatic advice, and a thorough understanding of the technology. Courses in the "Introducing Series" focus on emerging technologies such as Indigo, ASP.NET 2.0, Avalon, etc. These courses are targeted at......

16768 of 18438 | The Daily Grind 556 - Hope you`re having as much fun as I am installing security patches today. Information Indigo "Hello World" - Clemens Vasters shows how easy the new bits will make SOA when they finally ship. What to Expect From Visual Studio 2005 - FTP Online has some of the slides from VSLive available. And you can also get transcripts of the keynote speeches by S. "Soma" Somasegar and Eric Rudder over on the Microsoft PressPass site. Microsoft Releases 8 Critical Security Patches, etc. - Best summary I`ve seen of all of yesterday`s patches. Fix all your clients, servers, and toaster-ovens now. ...

16769 of 18438 | Today and tomorrow: Will Indigo heal... Explicitness is good, especially for Contracts - I can`t stand. After the first few days of Indigo hype, we are back to business. Now that Indigo is here (well, at least in the shape of code snippets in blog posts) people start to wonder about `best practices` - funny, isn`t it One of the main concerns a lot of bright people are currently musing about is the contract story. And this absoutely does not just count for Indigo, that`s for sure. And Indigo is still far away, especially for the most part of our customers. Alas, here is my 2 cents on it. It is all about being explicit. The current discussions are revolving around whether to write your `contract` in native .NET through writing down interfaces - or by starting with something diffe......

16770 of 18438 | Video: Soma on Visual Studio 2005 + Smart Clients - "Somasegar says a key component of continuing this momentum is creating `connected systems` that work together by using smart clients. `Let`s take the best from the Web client world and the best from the rich client world, and—voila!—you have a smart client,` Somasegar says. Smart clients can allow several applications to share code with one another while using minimal resources, eliminating the need to duplicate coding efforts; essentially, if one application requires a piece of code existing already in another application, it simply can request the code to be sent over. `The cheapest piece of code is the piece of code that you don`t have to write in the first place,` Somasegar says, as sm......

16771 of 18438 | VSLive Indigo Day Coverage from TheServerSide - Paul Ballard provides a nice summary of the Indigo Day at VSLive. I especially like the acronyms that the Indigo boys were using; the ABCs of Indigo and the CIA of security are damned easy to remember!...

16772 of 18438 | Watch Eric Rudder`s VSLive Indigo Keynote - "Eric Rudder, Senior Vice President of Microsoft`s Server and Tools Business, showed off Indigo at this morning`s VSLive! keynote. Indigo, Microsoft`s unified programming model for building service-oriented applications, is a key component of Microsoft`s next Windows release (code-named Longhorn). Rudder asserted that Indigo will provide improved interoperability and productivity, as well as a more flexible security model for developers creating service-oriented applications. He also noted that Indigo will make it easier to build secure, reliable, transacted Web services." By far my favorite part of this presentation (except for watching Ari`s heart beat at 155bpm) was watching Eric show t......

16773 of 18438 | WSCF 0.5: New Features (I) - Although there are people who do not think that non-code-based contract-first design and development of Web Services is the way to go when you are on the .NET platform, I am still very convinced about it (whether it be .NET 1.1 or something to come ...). Contract-first needs to be an explicit action... but maybe more about this later... just a quick one: it is *not* about just angle brackets or not. OK, anyway, here is the first new feature of WSCF 0.5 - thanks to a number of feedback messages from our users: Enhanced code generation - Data type generation We now optionally strip out generated data classes (i.e. CTS types generated from XSD schemas) and put them in their own files. ...

16774 of 18438 | WSCF 0.5: New Features (II) - Here is the second new feature of WSCF 0.5 - thanks to a number of feedback messages from our users: Enhanced code generation - Interfaces We now generate a .NET interface instead of an abstract class with all the (unnecessary and duplicated) ASMX attribute glue. This is extremely helpful if you want to separately host the service interface and the service implementation. E.g. if you want to host the service implementation under COM+ and expose a service interface for Enterprise Services, one for WSE messaging and one for ASMX. In this case you have to define a shared interface that follows the same contract as the WSDL file.Voilà. Additionally, we also generate an interface for the consum......

16775 of 18438 | Back into my PalmOne Tungsten E + Rss - So, whilst preparing to go to Barcelona last week I decided to fire the Tungsten E back into life (haven`t touched in at least 6 months) so I could install the brilliant Metro for a bit of navi-help. As it turns out I didn`t get around to syncing Metro, and lived without it (not enough time to sync), but I was once again wowed by how nice the screens are on the current gen PalmOne devices. The font is so smooth and readable. So. I had to find a use and get back into the PDA thing, despite what Russell is preaching about the death of the PDA. I have had, and hated an Orange SPV E200, although I have never extensively used a Symbian based phone, I am thinking my next may be a Symbian. Anyway ......

16776 of 18438 | Call Web Service Proxies via Reflection - I received an odd question from a mailing list that I am on.  The poster wanted to iterate through the Web References for the current project and call a method that appears on each endpoint.  The first thing that popped into my mind was, "Why does every single endpoint that you reference have the same method!"  That means there is an early bound reference to multiple endpoints, where each endpoint shares the same method... I absolutely cannot think of a use case where this seems justifiable.  The code to do this is pretty simple, I just use reflection to locate the types in the current assembly, determine if the type derives from SoapHttpClientProtocol, and calls the method.  More an inter......

16777 of 18438 | GUIDs and XSLT - An interesting email today... how do you generate GUIDs for every output element using XSLT  The short answer is "you don`t."  XSLT itself doesn`t have the capability to generate GUIDs.  Suppose that every node in the result tree needs a GUID attribute appended to it.  One way to solve this is to modify the transformation source before processing it.  Another would be to create an extension object and call the extension from XSLT.  Yet another way is to post-process the resulting XML, adding the GUID to every element. There is another, simpler way: create a custom XmlTextWriter.  This example shows a custom XmlTextWriter implementation that adds a new attribute, "guid", every time an elemen......

16778 of 18438 | Happy Indigo Day! - Today is Indigo Day at VSLiveI dunnoI feel like I should send Don a card or something. Expect the quantity of Indigo-related traffic in blogspace to increase substantially in the coming days (esp. from Christian) ...

16779 of 18438 | Indigo - now we can talk... - OK, it is good to see and know that the DSG team covers Indigo and how it will look like and smell and taste at this week`s VSLive! conference (together with anything Whidbey) Finally we are allowed to talk and write about all the things we know and we wanted to share with you for a long time. Cool - looking forward... I hate keep saying "Yeah, well, you know ... I might tell you, but...". ...

16780 of 18438 | Indigo Public Preview Date - Since I am getting questions on the last post, the dates Microsoft announced today was an Indigo CTP in March along with an Avalon CTP 2, which would also be with some version of Whidbey at the time. ...

16781 of 18438 | Indigo Unleashed! - Eric Rudder, with some help from Ari Bixhorn, unleashed and made Indigo public about an hour ago. I am now sitting in a session with Steve Swartz. I spoke to Steve and Yassar who ensured me that I (and all of us) could now post about Indigo publicly (I have been in the Design Previews) about a year but some of the code model has changed. I want to say overall that Indigo, thus far, has been everything I dreamed about in a distributed inter-operable platform. I have been vocal about some of the rougher parts of ES/COM+. I can`t go into detail at the moment but I see none of the roughness of ES. What I love about Indigo is how little code I have to write to achieve distributed communication i......

16782 of 18438 | Steve Swartz Reforms Don - So, unlike some previous Indigo talk, Don actually kept on topic today with lots of content. The reason The guiding force of Steve Swartz. Disclaimer: Steve paid me $1 to write this....

16783 of 18438 | The Daily Grind 555 - Trying to decipher someone else`s lightly-commented code is such fun. Especially when they hide things in collapsed automatically-generated code. Software Process Explorer 9.0 - Yet another upgrade from SysInternals for their supercharted Task Manager replacement. Insane amount of functionality for a free application. AppRocket - Keyboard-based application and file launcher for Windows. $9 with free trial. (via Farshid Sedghi) More Visual Studio Templates (with Installer) - Eddie Garmon presents some useful things (like NUnit tests and typed collections) wrapped up as new project item templates. Tablet PC Solutions: Surveys in Ink - Interesting-lookin......

16784 of 18438 | Today and tomorrow: Will Indigo heal... - In the next weeks and months I want to talk about Indigo - not surprising, eh But instead of just listing all the new features (OK, I would not have enough time and space here to do so, anyway...), I want to pick some hand-selected areas of Indigo architecture and programming model that make a distributed application programmer`s life easier compared to using today`s technologies. It does not make a lot of sense when you just list everything that is new in Indigo. This is up to a bunch of new books that may come or not... First, there is a lot of new stuff. Second, nobody can actually cope with all this `naked` information. So hopefully it helps some people out there to put it a bit into ......

16785 of 18438 | Web Services 2005 -- Five Keys Unlock the Gate - by Joe Keller, Vice President, Marketing for Java Web Services and Tools, Sun Microsystems, Inc. As 2005 gets underway, we believe web services standards have arrived at a crossroads between success and failure. ...

16786 of 18438 | xml:id Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation - 2005-02-08: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of xml:id Version 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. The specification introduces a predefined attribute name that can always be treated as an ID and hence can always be recognized. Comments are invited through 10 March. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)...

16787 of 18438 | Michael Liebow questions customers` need for SO(A) - Michael Liebow, VP of Web Services at IBM Global Services has a great entry on his weblog where he asked if "Customers really want an SOA". This is really a great post and I couldnt agree more. He stated that Service Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA) provides an approach to building an SOA that aligns to the business goals. It helps customers tie business processes to underlying applications to help the business realize benefits more rapidly. However, the key differentiator for SOMA is where the discussion starts. It`s with the business problem. He makes a few quoteworthy notes worth repeating: "...businesses need better visibility into......

16788 of 18438 | SqlXml / MDAC Clarification - Apparently there`s been a bit of confusion out there lately about the list of deprecated technologies in the Data Access Road Map.  Both Ken and Bryant blogged about it, and I just wanted to clarify a few things: - This article specifically referrs to SqlXml in MDAC.  That`s the SqlXmlx.dll file that provides nifty things like Templates and Updategams through SqlOleDB directly.  This is actually a fairly old (1.0+) version of our code. - SqlXml will be removed from future versions of MDAC, as in MDAC > 2.X.  SqlXml still provies its own OleDb provider that can be used with MDAC or SQLNCLI (in Sql Server 2005).  We will remain in the 2.X line. - Notification Services has a dependency on SqlX......

16789 of 18438 | SqlXml / MDAC Clarification - Apparently there`s been a bit of confusion out there lately about the list of deprecated technologies in the Data Access Road Map.  Both Ken and Bryant blogged about it, and I just wanted to clarify a few things: - This article specifically referrs to SqlXml in MDAC.  That`s the SqlXmlx.dll file that provides nifty things like Templates and Updategams through SqlOleDB directly.  This is actually a fairly old (1.0+) version of our code. - SqlXml will be removed from future versions of MDAC, as in MDAC > 2.X.  SqlXml still provies its own OleDb provider that can be used with MDAC or SQLNCLI (in Sql Server 2005).  We will remain in the 2.X line. - Notification Services has a dependency on SqlX......

16790 of 18438 | URLs in WebLogic Portal 8.1: A Tutorial - Discover how to create URLs in WebLogic Portal 8.1. This article shows you how to use URL templates to create URLs to resources, which will work not only in Portal but also with Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP)....

16791 of 18438 | WSIL - JJ nicely summarizes SOA/WS-* from the BPM perspective. Few comments: If web services created the pipes to flow this data relatively seamlessly, we are still missing the grand vision of SOA, i.e. an engine behind SOA, a BPM-based engine behind it. Yes, we do. But don`t worry, we are working on it. I would also go as far as suggesting......

16792 of 18438 | Huge Security Hole in Solaris and JVM - I wonder how Gosling feels about Solaris and the JVM, both of which support execution of C and C++ code (the latter through JNI, the former as the default way lots of UNIX heads (including me) learned to write UNIX code).Seriously, verifiable type safety is a wonderful thing, and I personally strive to stay within those borders every day of my life.The fact that some people can`t is a fact of life, which is why JNI (and the CLR`s P/Invoke and C#`s unsafe) exists.Ignoring the hyperbole (which is sad but a reality of the commercial software business), there was one annoying bit of misinformation about unsafe vs. unmanaged.In CLR speak, there are two modes of execution: managed and unmanaged. ......

16793 of 18438 | Metadata in EPR`s - Steve has posted an extended proposal for including additional metadata in Endpoint References to the WS-Addressing WG, and blogged a good summary of his ideas here. In short, the idea is to provide a new place in the EPR (the wsa:Metadata element) where you can hang blobs of additional metadata. Clients can use this metadata to construct other ‘functionally equivalent’ EPR’s that have more desirable characteristics than the one they were given. I suspect the major use case for this will be to allow infrastructures to transparently thunk down to a more optimal communications medium. I’m sure the major scenario o......

16794 of 18438 | ANN: nxslt.exe (.NET XSLT Command Line Utility) version 1.5 - I`m glad to announce version 1.5 of the nxslt.exe - .NET XSLT command line utility. What`s nxslt.exe nxslt is a small but feature-rich command line utility that allows to perform XSL Transformations (XSLT) using .NET Framework`s XSLT implementation - System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform class. nxslt basically dublicates functionality and command line options, provided by Microsoft`s MSXSL.EXE Command Line Transformation Utility with small difference: unlike msxsl.exe, nxslt does not support specifying start mode. In addition, nxslt has some distinct advanced features, like support for XInclude, embedded stylesheets, custom URI resolving, multiple result documents, custom extension......

16795 of 18438 | Florida .NET Code Camp - I am in the Ft. Lauderdale airport waiting on my plane (they have free wireless at the Cruzan Rum Bar just outside TSA security), on my way home from the Florida .NET Code Camp.  Man, that was a blast.  I talked about WSE 2.0, and ended up doing demos of the HOLs available on the web services spoke with a few minor tweaks.  Then I got to go to a lot of other sessions. My favorite session, hands down, was Tim Walton`s "Tales from the Server Side."  He effectively explained threads, processes, debuggers, and showed how to use WinDbg for CSI investigation of apps.  I have seen WinDbg and even used it once, but wasn`t aware of just what it was capable of.  You can load the symbols for any Micr......

16796 of 18438 | RSS Bandit 1.3.x (Wolverine) Beta Available! - Dare announced the beta version for the Wolverine edition of RSS Bandit (version 1.3.x) today. You can read his announcement to see some of the nice features it includes. I`ve been feverishly updating the documentation to take into account the new features and the updated look and feel. Documentation is hard work when you`re trying to keep up with developers as productive as Dare and Torsten. One feature that wasn`t announced, but quietly added by yours truly, is the ability to configure keyboard shortcuts via an XML settings file. The reason this is not an "announced" feature is that we have yet to provide any GUI support for configuring these settings. Nor have I documented the fo......

16797 of 18438 | What is Service Broker - A number of large database applications require asynchronous and distributed execution. Most loosely-coupled distributed systems provide scale out and resilience by queuing operations. Queues are used extensively in applications such as order entry systems, stock trading, warehouse querying and travel reservation systems. Writing queued distributed applications is a challenging task since it involves reliable network communication, integrity and ordering of messages, tolerance to process and system failuresa and coordination of transactions with the database. While most of these tasks can be achieved by using specialized messaging systems such as MSMQ and MQSeries, the close association bet......

16798 of 18438 | Comments On SOA Registry - Nice article on Loosely coupled. Before I fall asleep I`ll just persist some comments: Ad UDDI insufficiency: Is WS-Security enough for good security system Is SQL enough for good database Is WS-ReliableMessaging sufficient for good messaging product Is WS-Eventing sufficient for good content based router Yes No So why there are so many people surprised UDDI is not enough for......

16799 of 18438 | Download: Word 2003 XML Software Development Kit (SDK) - Download this SDK and get an overview of the XL schema reference, a linked description of the schema structure, reference materials for the XML schema reference, and tools and samples to guide you in developing Word solutions....

16800 of 18438 | ESB Mythbusters Article - Since releasing my latest book, Enterprise Service Bus (O`Reilly Media, 2004), I have been asked many questions about the nature of an ESB. I have also fended off some misconceptions that have been growing in the general IT population regarding what an ESB is and when, where, and how it can be used. I have gathered together the most popular questions and misconceptions, and offer some clarity in the form of a "top ten" list..... ...