WSDL Resources

WSDL Tutorial

A multi-chapter wsdl tutorial from the always efficient folks at w3schools includes a wsdl introduction, documents, ports, bindings, wsdl and uddi, and wsdl syntax.

Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1

This document is a submission to the World Wide Web Consortium as a suggestion for describing services for the W3C XML Activity on XML Protocols. This draft represents the current thinking with regard to descriptions of services within Ariba, IBM and Microsoft

WSDL Essentials

This is Chapter 6: WSDL Essentials from the book Web Services Essentials (ISBN:0-596-00224-6) written by Ethan Cerami, published by O'Reilly & Associates.

Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Explained

MSDN site for WSDL.

A Busy Developers Guide to WSDL 1.1

This document demonstrates how the process of achieving meaningful interoperation between different environments can be achieved in a simpler and less error prone manner by applying some of the basic concepts described in WSDL 1.1

Deploying Web services with WSDL: Part 1

In the Deploying Web services with WSDL series, Bilal will explore all major technical aspects of creating, deploying, and publishing Web services -- from Web Services Markup Language (WSDL), to Simple Object access Protocol (SOAP), and Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registries. Part 1 focuses on WSDL authoring: You will learn how to manually create a WSDL interface, and then compare your effort with the output of a WSDL authoring tool.

Is WSDL the indispensable API?

In this article, Eoin Lane shows a service's WSDL view, then explains how you can generate client and service implementations for the various programming languages. Eoin finishes by discussing possible sources for initial WSDL view generatio

WSDL: A New XML-Based Web Site Description Language

This is a thesis regarding wsdl and xml.

WSDL Tales From The Trenches, Part 1

WSDL article.

Understanding Overloading in WSDL

WSDL article.

Which style of WSDL should I use?

RPC/encoded, RPC/literal, document/literal? Which one?

WSDL processing with XSLT

First steps for Web service description processing.

XSL Tutorials

XSLT in J2EE/JAX and ASP.Net

This site features a 4-part tutorial with examples.

XSLT Tutorial

Another comprehensive tutorial site from w3schools that includes an introduction, overview, tutorial and references.

XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0

This specification defines the syntax and semantics of XSLT, which is a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents.

XML and XSLT

This site covers the basics of creating an xml document and adding style to it using xslt.

XSLT Tutorial

A multi-page xslt tutorial that includes an example page. There is also an xpath tutorials and an xml namespace tutorial.

WSDL processing with XSLT

First steps for Web service description processing.

XML Tools

XML Viewer

MindFusion's XML Viewer is a freeware program used to examine the contents of an XML file in an easy-to-use environment. In addition you can make modification to the XML such as inserting or deleting items or properties.

Exchanger XML Lite V3.2

Exchanger XML Lite is a Java-based product that provides comprehensive functionality for viewing, authoring and editing XML data and documents. The Exchanger XML Lite edition is for use only in non-commercial environments.

XmEdiL

XmEdiL is free document editor for XML and other languages. Provides standard Windows interface, validation, transformations, XPath builder, language editor, entry helpers, autocomplete, intellisense, projects, syntax colorizing, W3C conformant.

XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit

XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands.

Cooktop

Cooktop is a free xml editor for windows and development environment for XML, DTD, and XSLT documents

Peter's XML editor v2.0

Microsoft XML parser MSXML 4.0 is needed to run this software. This can be installed by selecting the custom setup option.

GenDoc

GenDoc is an open source XML editor written in Java2. It is based on a existing project (MerlotXML), and can use two kinds of plugins (DTD and/or action). The DTD plugin can be used to customize the editor for a DTD, and an action plugin can be used to publish documents in HTML or PDF format.

Python XmlTools

Python XmlTools is a set of high level tools to help using XML in python. It relies heavily on PyXml and 4Suite to access XML resources

xmloperator : an XML editor

xmloperator is an XML editor, suitable for editing data oriented documents. The software is open source, Java written, released under a BSD-style license. It requires J2SE 1.4 and uses Xerces-J, Xalan-J and Ant from the Apache Software Fondation.

XED

XED is a text editor for XML document instances. It is designed to support hand-authoring of small-to-medium size XML documents, and is optimised for keyboard input. There are beta versions for windows, solaris, freebsd and linux.

Visual XML

Visual XML is a tool that enables you to create and modify DTD and XML documents. It appears to be a java application in beta form.

XML Tutorials

XML Course

This site has material from an xml course offered by the author, who specializes in Java technology. I do not know if this is one of the courses that he offers for free online, but there is a wealth of information in the form of slides that are downloadable in pdf format.

XML School

Another comprehensive site from W3SChools with everthing from an introduction to XML to examples and a quiz.

learn xml in 11.5 minutes

Sounds a bit optimistic, but this looks like a pretty straightforward introduction to XML.

DevGuru XML Tutorial

A Beginners Guide to Creating and Displaying Your First XML document.

Introduction to XML Programming

In this Tutorial we will be explaining you step by step how to use XML Parsers (SAX , DOM, XSLT). Also we will be explaining how to create DTDs and we will also be covering how to use NameSpaces.

introduction to XML for web developers

XML tutorial for web developers.

Learn XML

This is a short tutorial on programming with xml.

XML Schema Tutorial

Schema tutorial, learn what an XML Schema is. You will also learn how XML Schema will replace DTD, and how to use the XML Schema language in your applications.

XML: Structuring Data for the Web

Another fine tutorial site from the people at the Web Developer's Virtual Library (WDVL).

Working with XML

The Java API for Xml Processing (JAXP) Tutorial

XML 101

XML tutorial.

XML Tutorial

In this tutorial selected XML features are demonstrated.

DTD Tutorial

In this tutorial basic DTD features are demonstrated on many examples.

www.w3.org/XML/

Tons of XML resources

XML Schema tutorial

Roger Costello has produced an downloadable XML Schema tutorial which is based on the latest drafts of the XML Schema specifications.

Technical Introduction to XML

This introduction to XML presents the Extensible Markup Language at a reasonably technical level for anyone interested in learning more about structured documents.(long article)

Introduction to XML Processing with Lark and Larval

Lark is a non-validating XML processor implemented in the Java language. Larval is a validating XML processor built on the same code base as Lark. Source code can be downloaded.

XSL Tutorial

An introduction to XSL - The style sheet language of XML. What XSL is and what it can do.

XSL and XSLT

Stylesheets and document transformation

Java Technology and XML

XML with Java resources.

XML Forums

Tek-Tips XML Forum

XML forum.

Google XML Forum

XML Forum

XML / WDDX Forum

XML / WDDX forum.

XML Forum

Free registration required to post.

flashkit XML Forum

XML forum.

XML FAQs

Java Technology and XML

Sun faq about using xml with java.

Flash-XML FAQ

The Flash-XML FAQ aims to provide a definitive source for common questions about Flash and its interaction with XML (and XML datasources).

The XML FAQ

XML faq at Oreilly.

XML Schema FAQ

The XML Schema FAQ is largely updated from posts in xmlschema-dev and xml-dev.

XML Namespaces FAQ

This looks like a comprehensive faq about xml namespaces.

irt.org

Extensible Markup Language (XML) FAQ Knowledge Base.

XML Articles

XML Files

Links to XML articles and short tutorials.

XSL Sample Chapter

Chapter 17 of the XML Bible, Second Edition : XSL Transformations

XML in 10 points

This summary in 10 points attempts to capture enough of the basic concepts to enable a beginner to see the forest through the trees.

Why XML?

XML article.

what is xml?

XML article.

Using XML and JSP together

XML and JSP are two of the hottest buzzwords these days. This article shows how you can use these two technologies together to make a dynamic Website.

What is XML?

XML article.

Web Services Tutorial: Understanding XML and XML Schema

This Web Service article series covers all the important standards in the Web Services stack and ties them together with real-world examples. The first article in this series discusses XML (Extended Markup Language).

What is XML?

XML is a framework for defining markup languages:

Humans should not have to grok XML

When you should and should not use XML from IBM Developer Works.

XML for the absolute beginner

A guided tour from HTML to processing XML with Java.

xml.com

Articles and resources.

XML APIs for databases

Blend the power of XML and databases using custom SAX and DOM APIs.

Printing XML using XSL

Printing XML using XSL

Extending XMLMap: XML for Presentation Purposes

XML article.

Safer XML

XML article.

Charting the XML territory with XMLMap

XML article.

Ajax Tutorials and Libraries

Free Ajax Scripts Directory   

A collection of free ajax scripts and tutorials with demos so you can test them out.

Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials

This is a list of helpful ajax programming tutorials found around the web.

60 More AJAX Tutorials

This is another ajax programming blog entry by the same guy who listed 30 useful ajax programming tutorials. Many of the listed tutorials come with ajax source code.

W3 Schools AJAX Tutorial

An AJAX tutorial from the helpful people at W3Schools.

10-Week Free AJAX Programming (with Passion!) Online Course

The first session of this free online AJAX course is already underway, but there are slides and various other resources available. This is a Java site so the AJAX course ultimately involves JavaServer Faces and AJAX integration.

Ajax in Action

There are two sample chapters and a 22-minute screencast on ajax available for free at the site for the book (source code appears to be available too). You will need to register with an email to see the screencast though.

ASP.NET Atlas

Atlas is a free framework from Microsoft for adding Ajax to ASP.NET pages.

Yahoo! User Interface Library

This is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license.

Google Web Toolkit

This is a java software development kit that lets you build AJAX applications like Google Earth and Gmail. You write your program in Java, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

Guide to Using AJAX and XMLHttpRequest from WebPasties

This is an Ajax articles that shows you how to use Ajax to automatically fill in form fields with the city and state based on the zip code that the user enters into another field.

Mastering Ajax, Part 1: Introduction to Ajax

This is an introductory Ajax article at IBM.

Mastering Ajax, Part 2

Part two of this ajax series covers making asynchronus requests with javascript and ajax.

Getting Started with Ajax

This article at A List Apart is an excerpt from the book Web Design in a Nutshell and covers using ajax with innerHTML and Nodes to manipulate page content dynamically.

Creating a MySQL connection with PHP/AJAX

This is a short ajax tutorial on opening a connection to MySql using ajax.

Sarissa

Sarissa is a cross-browser ECMAScript library for client side XML manipulation, including loading XML from URLs or strings, performing XSLT transformations, XPath queries and more. Supported: Gecko (Mozilla, Firefox etc), IE, KHTML (Konqueror, Safari

NAJAX

This package can be used to call PHP classes on the Web server side from Javascript code in Web pages. It uses AJAX technology to submit HTTP requests from Javascript to pass call parameters and collect and process the responses.

Rico

Rico provides a very simple interface for registering Ajax request handlers as well as HTML elements or JavaScript objects as Ajax response objects. Multiple elements and/or objects may be updated as the result of one Ajax request

xajax

xajax is an open source PHP class library that allows you to easily create powerful, web-based, Ajax applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. Applications developed with xajax can asynchronously call server-side PHP functions and update content without reloading the page

Sajax

Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework � also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting � as easy as possible. Sajax makes it easy to call PHP, Perl or Python functions from your webpages via JavaScript without performing a browser refresh

DWR

DWR is a Java open source library which helps developers wanting to write web sites that include AJAX technology. It allows code in a web browser to use Java functions running on a web server as if it was in the browser.

AjaxAnywhere

AjaxAnywhere turns any set of existing JSP components into AJAX-aware components without a complex JavaScript coding. Simply separate your web page into multiple zones, and use AjaxAnywhere to refresh only those zones that needs to be updated.

How To Use AJAX

Kris Hadlock explains how to use AJAX in a real-world situation and how you can assess its value in a project. By the time you finish reading this article, you'll know what AJAX is as well as where, why, and how to use it.

Very Dynamic Web Interfaces

This article explores the use of JavaScript and the XMLHttpRequest object.

Ajax Programming

This Wikipedia article has some general information about Ajax programming including example sites using ajax.

Ajax Tutorial

This point of this article is not to debate the merits of one approach over another, but to introduce ajax in a way that is simple, yet powerful enough to be useful. The author uses php, xml and javascript.

AJAX:Getting Started

This article at the Mozilla developer center guides you through the AJAX basics and gives you two simple hands-on examples to get you started.

Rasmus 30 second AJAX Tutorial

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Using the XML HTTP Request object

Ajax articles that is a short tutorial with ajax examples.

AJAX: Instant Tutorial

More of a short article than a tutorial on how to make a call to an http server get content and load it into your existing page without having to refresh the whole page.

A Simpler Ajax Path

This ajax article looks at some ways to handle server-side errors to make debugging less of a headache. It uses the example of a html form that posts to a server-side Ruby script.

The Hows and Whys of Degradable Ajax

Includes an online example and downloadable code (php is used server-side).

Ajax Tutorial: Ajax What Is It Good For?

Walks through the basics of Ajax and culminates in the building of a little Ajax powered Fading Image Gallery application.

Remote Scripting with AJAX,

This two-part series of articles covers remote scripting using the AJAX XMLHttpRequest protocol. Part one walks through an example application that demonstrates how to implement the protocol, while part two shows how to create a usable interface.

An Introduction To Ajax

This articles is an introduction to ajax programming and using the DWR java library.

Developing AJAX Applications the Easy Way

This article demonstrates the use of DWR, a Java open source library, to create a multi-user web-based chat site. It demonstrates how simple it is to integrate JavaScript in the web browser with Java on the server.

Ajax on Rails

This article introduces the incredibly easy-to-use Ajax support that is part of the Ruby on Rails web application framework.

Ajax Mistakes

A list of the many mistakes developers using Ajax often make.