by Rich Salz August 28 2002 You know the old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words There s an awful lot of binary data out there and XML is not going to replace it all or even a significant percentage. After all what s the benefit to xmlifying things like MPEG s or program executables Binary Data in XML XML doesn t handle embedded binary...

June 2002 You don t need to be an XML or SOAP expert to use the universal description discovery and integration specification to find and publish interfaces and contextual information about Web services. Part 4 of 4. By David Carlson Read part 1 part 2 and part 3 . The Universal Description Discovery and Integration UDDI specification has received...

by Will Provost September 30 2003 For all the magic that XML SOAP and WSDL seem to offer in allowing businesses to interoperate they do not solve the more traditional problems of integrating data models and message formats. Analysts and developers must still plod through the traditional process of resolving differences between models before the...

by Pim van der Eijk March 18 2003 The ebXML Messaging Service specification ebMS extends the SOAP specification to provide the security and reliability features required by many production enterprise and e-business applications. As an OASIS Open standard ebMS is a mature specification supported by a variety of commercial and open source software...

by Jeremy Ehrmann Overview The Developers at Google have been kind enough to offer a web API for developers using the SOAP protocol. When you do a search using Google you may have noticed that you are prompted with possible alternatives to any words you may have misspelled. The Google web API spell check" allows you to send a string of text...

by Rich Salz October 16 2002 This article is the last in a series examining how one might go about sending binary data as part of a SOAP message. This month we look at BEEP the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol. The primary inventor of BEEP is Marshall Rose a long-time protocol wonk" within the IETF community. Marshall has authored more...

by Rich Salz September 18 2002 Direct Internet Message Encapsulation Last month we talked about the reasons for associating attachments with SOAP messages and we looked at the initial SOAP Messages with Attachments SwA note. This month we look at Direct Internet Message Encapsulation DIME a binary message format; and we ll also look briefly at...

by Leigh Dodds December 20 2000 This week the XML-Deviant reports on a promising discussion concerning potential convergence between several XML protocol activities. ebXML and SOAP During his recent XML 2000 keynote Jon Bosak outlined a vision of the future of web services which was summarized by Eric van der Vlist as XML as a core technology UDDI...

by Joe Gregorio April 14 2004 In my last article I covered the changes from version 7 to version 8 of the draft AtomAPI. Now the latest version of the AtomAPI is version 9 which adds support for SOAP. This change and its impact on API implementers will be covered in a future article. In this article I m going to build a simple implementation of the...

by Didier Martin January 31 2001 XML is often used for structured documents like XHTML rendering or transformation languages like XSLT and XSLFO and as the basis for extensible network protocols like SOAP. A less well known example of the use of XML in network protocol design is Composite Capabilities Preference Profiles CC PP . The potential impact...

by Leigh Dodds May 08 2002 The XML-Deviant this week takes a brief look back over the REST debate to see what s been learned and what s still to be done. Let a Thousand Threads Bloom The so-called REST versus SOAP discussion looks like it s going to be a serious contender for this year s Debate that Spawned a Thousand Threads" award. The...

by Al Saganich 04 24 2002 In my prior articles I ve introduced and discussed various aspects of the JAX Pack a set of APIs for working with Web services and the underlying supporting protocols. In this article we ll look at JAX-RPC a specification for making remote procedure calls via XML and SOAP over HTTP. Specifically we ll look at the client...

by Edd Dumbill July 18 2001 Welcome to the first installment of my new biweekly XML.com column taglines . I ll be examining recent events in XML and providing an alternative spin on the industry. If you think you ve got a story or a juicy piece of gossip feel free to send me mail put taglines" in the subject . Slippery SOAP Earlier...

by John E. Simpson July 05 2001 Q I can t validate a document using namespaces can I I m trying to validate an XML file. It uses XML namespaces but I can t figure out how to express them inside the DTD. Here s a sample XML document xml version 1.0" DOCTYPE checkbook SYSTEM checkbook.dtd" checkbook xmlns f http schemas.ar-ent.net soap file...

April 2002 J.P. Morgenthal explains industry machinations in the world of distributed architecture protocols. By John Reitano Have you ever wanted to roll your own Napster J.P. Morgenthal CTO of Akimbo a real-time communications software provider explained the basics of doing so in his class covering the use of the Simple Object Access Protocol...