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XML Cover Pages:IBM alphaWorks Releases XML Forms Package:

The XML development team at IBM alphaWorks labs has released an ‘XML Forms Package’ as one of several new technologies. The XML Forms Package is a toolkit consisting of software components designed to showcase the possibilities presented by W3C XForms. XForms is W3C’s next generation of web forms defined in a Candidate Recommendation specification. The IBM XML Forms Package “consists of two main components: the data model component and the client component. The data model component provides a set of Java APIs for creating, accessing, and modifying XForms data models. This package also includes a JSP tag library that provides a set of tags for use inside JSPs. The tag library interfaces with the XForms data model component APIs, thus providing JSP authors a means of accessing these APIs from within their JSPs. A detailed description of the data model APIs and the tag library, as well as their use, can be found in the documentation for the XML Forms data model. The client component includes two technologies: An XForms processor control and a Java XForms compiler. The XML Forms Package allows developers to deploy XForms applications without any client-side technologies, using the Java XForms compiler. It also includes an Internet Explorer process control with several useful extensions including local persistence, UI control extensions, and Web Services integration. The data model component allows JSP programmers to take advantage of XForms model constraints and validation without leaving their familiar programming environment and tools.”

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ONLamp.com: Ten Security Checks for PHP [Part 1] [Part 2]

Mark Baker: Why bad design always trumps hype; the fatal flaw of Web services [April 02, 2003] “First, bad design cannot be masked. And second, that Web services’ lack of use of a coordination language is an example of bad design.”

Via O’Reilly Network: More CORBA vs SOAP (Uche Ogbuji):

• Web Services/SOAP and CORBA

• developerWorks: Web services : The Python Web services developer: Messaging technologies compared

Microsoft & BEA: XML, SOAP, and Binary Data
Tim Bray: Bosworth et al on XML, SOAP, Binary Data

CW360°:

“The technology will be available by the end of this month free of charge on IBM’s alphaWorks web site and provides Soap enablement of existing CICS Cobol applications, permitting them to be invoked through Soap requests over either HTTP or WebSphere MQ messages and then integrated both inside and outside of the enterprise.”

Dive Into Accessibility, especially Day 26: Using relative font sizes

websiteoptimization.com: Web Connection Speed Trends - United States Users

Disobey.com::

Dave mentions that NetNewsWire has RSS 2.0 <comments> support in the latest downloadable beta. I sometimes forget how easy it is to add new display data to AmphetaDesk - all current versions of AmphetaDesk could have supported display of <comments> the second Dave rolled the idea off his tongue. Here’s how you do it with the default AmphetaDesk templates. First, open AmphetaDesk/templates/default/index.html with a text editor. Then, look for the following line (wrapped here for clarity):

to_browser(qq{ $item->{description} })
   if $item->{description};

Right beneath it, add one line (wrapped here for clarity):

to_browser(qq{ <div align=”right”>[<a href=”$item->{comments}”>Read the Comments!</a>]</div> }) if $item->{comments};

You can do this with AmphetaDesk open already - once you save the file, refresh your page, and any RSS 2.0 feed that uses the <comments> tag will give you a chance to go directly to any posted comments on that entry. Try it out on Brent’s (of NNW fame) RSS feed.