Joan Haggarty

Web services are no longer a new concept. They are rapidly gaining acceptance and use in the development of e-business applications. By now, the benefits of using Web services are clear: they provide a modular, self-describing, and self-contained mechanism to share business logic over the Internet using standardized messaging protocols. Business logic is separated from the client code and the database and can be made available to numerous applications. The payoffs are obvious. However, related standards such as SOAP, AXIS, UDDI, and JAX-RPC are evolving quickly and various components are needed to completely implement a Web service, including client code, message protocols, WSDL, security, registration, and deployment. It is challenging, and in some cases tedious, for developers to assemble the appropriate components from scratch while keeping pace with the changing ... (more)

XML and Relational Data in WebSphere Studio

How many applications can you think of that do not involve data in some way? Data is at the core of most businesses since it provides vital information about things like customers, business partners, employees, and inventory. The vast majority of software applications are written for the purposes of data creation, retrieval, exchange, or storage. So we recognize data is everywhere and needs to be managed to make it available when required and easily maintained. However, data exists in various forms: delimited text, structured text such as XML, and relational data, to name a few. ... (more)