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

Here is a short article on Perl.NET. 10:00:55 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

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