Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Degrees of freedom. Wrapping and publishing a SOAP service Calling a remote Web service (radioFeeds) and a local .NET module (rssFeeds.feedServices::load) Building a SQL view from two XPath-enabled queries Exporting a SQL query, as XML, to WebDAV clients Consuming XML, via WebDAV, in Exel 11 Data moves from a SOAP service in Radio UserLand, through an auto-generated WSDL wrapper, into a database stored procedure, which calls out to the Web through a C# extension and stores results in an indexed XML database. Then an XPath-enabled SQL query gathers results, converts them to XML, and virtualizes them as a WebDAV resource, which Excel finally reads and analyzes. Too many degrees of freedom? Not to my way of thinking. "It's just data," says Apache officer and IBM senior developer Sam Ruby. Of course data takes many forms and flows in many ways. I can't think of another product that supports as many data pathways -- or does so as intelligently -- as Virtuoso. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio] 8:52:34 AM    comment []

Al Gore Joins Apple Board   [ TidBITS ] 8:51:31 AM    comment []

Strategic Armchair Command.  Death from the couch. 8:43:10 AM    comment []

Dear Raed.   The weblog of an Iraqi man in Baghdad. 8:37:46 AM    comment []