Beat Schwegler's 2 Cents

Excerpt from the PHP Manual : Warning Do not use Apache 2.0 and PHP in a production environment neither on Unix nor on Windows. No comment…

First of all, I want to credit Christian for pointing out this issue, thanks . But now the question: Given the following Web Services implementation, how will the generated XML type for AddRequestMsg look like? As always, answer and explanation...

I just came across the following InformationWeek quiz: Web Services: Up to speed? It’s scary to see what they count as success factors when moving towards a Web Services enabled infrastructure. Why? Check out their questions and you know...

This quiz is based on a recently raised customer issue: They’d built a state of the art Web Service infrastructure to transform different parts of their manufacturing system into a standardized service based approach. Since this is an ongoing process...

Sometimes it’s even more difficult to write a session abstract than to compile the skeleton of the presentation itself. This sounds maybe a bit strange, but in most cases I already have to know my session’s story and structure before I can...

If you like philosophizing about programming languages you have to check out Bruce’s thoughts on Java and C# Generics: Generics Aren't About Latent Typing Having over a decade of C++ experience, I’m still not sure whether I like...

BPELJ (BPEL for Java technology) works completely against the Web Services interoperability efforts. Including Java specific artifacts into the business process language just don’t fit into the wise approach of orchestrating heterogeneous systems...

The Austrian e|GOV days will take place in Vienna during March 15 th -16 th . There is a huge potential in electronically dealing with governments and administrations. However, it’s tremendous important to manage information confidentially and to...

The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS'04) will be held in Erfurt ( Germany ), September 27-30 2004. Submission deadline for papers: April 23, 2004 Their list of suggested topics looks pretty good. It demonstrates quite impressive that...

To follow up on my recent post , I came to the conclusion that I’m definitely not missing latent typing ! At the end, the question is whether you want to have tightly or loosely coupled implementations. IMHO coupling at the level of a programming...

I’m really looking forward Pat !

According to Mario ’s comment, the problem of Quiz 3 is more an XML than a Web Services one. If you look at the generated schema, you’ll notice that Item.id is of type int: < s:complexType name ="Item"> < s:sequence >...

I’m doing a MSDN Webcast on 29 th April: MSDN Webcast: .NET CodeDOM Demystified The CodeDOM namespace provides the .NET programmer a runtime infrastructure for generating and compiling source code (C#, VB .NET , ...) on-the-fly...

The answer to quiz 4 is quite surprising: < s:complexType name ="AddRequestMsg"> < s:sequence > < s:element minOccurs ="1" maxOccurs ="1" name ="a" type ="s:int" /> < s:element minOccurs ="1" maxOccurs ="1" name ="b...