As indispensable as computers are in electronics design, they have too often failed in this context to support long-term business objectives. To date, there has been scarcely little effort to ...

Web Services Security (WSS) refers to a set of XML message-level standards designed to ensure the security of various aspects of SOA (service-oriented architecture). Yet, due largely to the inherent ...

This article originally appeared in our sister publication, Builder Australia, as part of the Ask Chuck column. I want to create a Windows Application that allows a user to enter/edit/access data that ...

Today, application integration is the single biggest challenge facing IT organizations. With business imperatives driving an increasing need for cross-organization integration, this challenge is ...

XML has become an indispensable part of IT infrastructure. As more web services applications exchange XML messages over the network, we're seeing the emergence of XML-aware network routers and ...

Learn how the Data Transfer Object design pattern is implemented in Java ME architectures and why you might want to use XML-based DTOs rather than Java beans for faster data interchange between tiers.

A few years ago, I had to sell clients on the merits of XML. Today, XML has unequivocally become the universal format for structured documents and data on the Web. Software vendors are slowly ...

According to The Yankee Group, Nemertes Research and Burton Group, companies across a wide range of industries are embracing XML-based Web services, and 75% have deployed at least one XML Web service.

XML is a framework designed to provide a unifying way to package data. Industries ranging in scope from agriculture to architecture have moved to adopt XML as the de facto standard for ...