Saturday, August 03, 2002

Transactions and Web Services. Clemens Vasters has a well thought out and well reasoned answer to the common question: "Why doesn't SOAP have transactions?" Required reading. :) When people ask me this question, I'm going to stop answering it, and point them to this essay instead.[The .NET Guy] 2:57:41 PM

Validating XML SOAP request and response documents against XSD schemas leads to greater Web service security with only a modest effect on client performance. Microsoft's Xsd.exe is a versatile tool for generating XML schema from sample XML files. Apply this article's Heimlich maneuvers when Xsd.exe chokes on large, complex XML SOAP response documents. 10:02:29 AM

Tiberius OsBurn is at again with one of his great rants/informative article: "Tired of dinking with SOAP tags? Is your WSDL running down your leg? Tired of claims of interoperability but zero vendor support? Me too. I've been able to create a servlet in Java, have it query a database, and format the ResultSet into an XML document. I've also created a Microsoft C# class the uses the XMLTextReader class to query the Java servlet's URL, snag out the XML..."  9:59:25 AM

Ugo Cei: "Yeah, and why not also ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer, like someone said a long time ago? Listen, Scotty, I don't want your oneness, I want freedom of choice." 9:48:43 AM

Web Services Making Software Coexist? [Slashdot] "Despite the competitive uproar, coexistence of J2EE and .NET will be the norm and most sophisticated IT organizations will deploy on both development platforms. Who says so? No less an authority than the CTO of J2EE powerhouse BEA Systems, Scott Dietzen, writing in this month's Web Services Journal. Dietzen acknowledges that an ongoing conflict is in progress between Java and C# and between J2EE and the .NET server family and is refeshingly honest, admitting that "there is some truth to the 'write once, test everywhere' complaint against Java." His overall conclusion: ".NET is finding a sweet spot for programmed user interfaces, while J2EE continues to enjoy its sweet spot for server-side applications." Unusual honesty by someone so highly placed. Isn't this just what the software industry needs more of, in these increasingly interoperable times?" 1:13:44 AM

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