Wednesday, September 04, 2002

Don Box on end to the Web services era, at least on a standards level: Don Box, an architect in Microsoft Corp.'s developer division told an audience of Web services conference attendees Wednesday: "The end of the XML Web services era is near. I predict two years from now we won't have this conference." Box said XML Web services are a means to an end. "We have to get the plumbing sorted out," he said. "We have a couple more years of plumbing work, but after that we move on to applications," he said. Box said the "protocol work is starting to wind down, the infrastructure is catching up with protocols and it's time to start thinking about applications." Very well said. [WebJives :: Me & You] 6:09:34 PM

We've just released a free WSDL Editor. Basically, this is an upgraded, standalone version of the WSDL Editor that's part of CapeStudio. Among other features (see the marketing shtick below), it does provide WSDL validation. For more information or if you're interested in downloading the WSDL Editor, it's at http://www.capescience.com/downloads/wsdleditor/.  [from the SOAPBuilders mailing list] 2:16:25 PM

Microsoft XML Diff and Patch 1.0. "Microsoft XML Diff and Patch is a set of tools for comparison of two XML documents and application of the changes (patching). XML Diff detect addition, deletion and other changes between two XML documents. It also detects structural changes like a move of a XML subtree. It produces Xml Diff Language Diffgram (XDL diffgram or just diffgram) that describes the differences between the two XML documents. The diffgram can be then used to display these differences or to perform a patch operation using the XML Patch tool." I know that this tool has been sorely needed in the XML community for a while and now MS has released one. [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] 1:50:17 PM

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