Friday, December 28, 2001

Dot-Com Builder: Overview of UDDI This article describes the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) standard, an evolving standard for describing, publishing, and finding Web services that a business provides. In short, UDDI is a specification for a distributed registry of information on Web services. I'll introduce the capabilities that these registries add to the WWW, and how they can be used.
posted by J Slave 12/28/2001

Dot-Com Builder: Web Services The concept of Web services marks the latest in the development of ever more modular and distributed computing. The industry has embraced it as the next big thing despite its technical immaturity. What does this mean to developers? It means you can become an early adopter, hone your skills, and contribute to its evolution.
posted by J Slave 12/28/2001

XForms 1.0 XForms 1.0
W3C Working Draft 07 December
posted by J Slave 12/28/2001

XML and Forms [December 10, 2001] W3C Publishes Updated XForms 1.0 Working Draft Specification. The W3C XForms Working Group has issued a new version of the XForms 1.0 working draft specification, incorporating "new material agreed upon at the Mountain View face-to-face meeting and ongoing feedback from the general public." The working group plans to publish a 'last call' working draft after evaluation of review comments on the current draft. 'XForms' is W3C's name for "a specification of Web forms that can be used with a wide variety of platforms including desktop computers, hand helds, information appliances, and even paper. The current design of Web forms doesn't separate the purpose from the presentation of a form. XForms, in contrast, are comprised of separate sections that describe what the form does, and how the form looks. This allows for flexible presentation options, including classic XHTML forms, to be attached to an XML form definition. The XForms User Interface provides a standard set of visual controls that are targeted toward replacing today's XHTML form controls. These form controls are directly usable inside XHTML and other XML documents, like SVG. An important concept in XForms is that forms collect data, which is expressed as XML instance data; workflow, auto-fill, and pre-fill form applications are supported through the use of collected instance data."
posted by J Slave 12/28/2001

Extensible Forms Description Language (XFDL) "XFDL, the world's first open protocol for secure, legally-binding XML documents, is garnering support and endorsement from industry vendors. XFDL provides a key component of business-to-business e-commerce solutions: the ability to securely send and receive legally-binding XML documents. The importance of XFDL as an e-commerce language comes largely from its ability to encapsulate presentation, data, computational logic, and business semantics, such as those defined by CBL, cXML, or BizTalk, in a single XML document. This document can then be digitally signed and stored to provide non-repudiation, enabling high-value, binding e-commerce transactions today." [from the Home Page]
posted by J Slave 12/28/2001

The W3C has acknowledged receipt of a two-part submission from JetForm Corporation on the topic of XML Forms Architecture. Both documents are edited by Gavin McKenzie. XML Forms Architecture (XFA) "provides for the specific requirements of electronic forms and the applications that use them. XFA addresses the needs of organizations to securely capture, present, move, process, output and print information associated with electronic forms." The submission "describes an XML tagset for electronic forms with support for graphics, templates, calculations, validation, scripting, picture clauses, sequencing, and digital signatures. Some aspects of the submission duplicate existing work by W3C: the box model (W3C's style sheet activity), graphics (W3C's work on scalable vector graphics), linking (W3C's work on XML Linking). The details for signed forms relate to new work at W3C on signed XML. Work on data types for XML Schemas may be relevant to the canonical representation of form values such as dates." XFA "clearly distinguishes between the two stages via the following terminology, as detailed in [the submissions]: (1) Form -- what the form consumer works with (2) Template -- what the form designer creates." The document "XFA-Template" [XFA-Template Version 1.0] describes the open and extensible modeling of secure forms with high fidelity composition, automated calculation and validation, pluggable user-interface components, and flexible data handling. The second document "XFA-Fo
posted by J Slave 12/28/2001

Mozquito Technologies :: XForms Preview A final development environment for XForms will be out soon! For those of you who are interested in practical exploration of XForms and XML, we can offer you our online environment, availabel via FTP.
posted by J Slave 12/28/2001

X-Smiles.org X-Smiles is a Java based XML browser. It is intended for both desktop use and embedded network devices and to support multimedia services.
The main advantage of the X-Smiles browser is that it supports several XML related specifications and is still suitable for embedded devices supporting the Java environment.
X-Smiles is not an HTML browser, though in the future it may support XHTML.
posted by J Slave 12/28/2001

Friday, December 21, 2001

Index of /pub/crypt/cryptography/symmetric

More details of various crypto algoritms.
posted by J Slave 12/21/2001

Wiretapped.net
A collection of documetation and specifications for Cryptogray Algorothms.
posted by J Slave 12/21/2001

Thursday, December 20, 2001

Cryptix - Welcome to Cryptix Cryptixtm is an international volunteer effort to produce robust, open-source cryptographic software libraries. Cryptix products are free, both for commercial and non-commercial use and are being used by developers all over the world. Development is currently focused on Java.
posted by J Slave 12/20/2001

Who Trusts the Trustees? Trusted Security Providers in the Java Cryptography Extension 1.2.1 In a reasonable world, the JDK would contain a standard java.crypto package as part of the core API. Regrettably, U.S. export laws prohibit the export of cryptographic software without special permission. The regulations that implement these laws have been loosened recently, but the laws are still in place. Therefore, Java's security classes are divided between the java.security and javax.crypto packages. The latter must be downloaded separately from the JDK as part of the Java Cryptography Extension in order to comply with U.S. law. Before you can download it, you have to fill out a form promising you're a resident of the United States or Canada. However, several third party implementations of the JCE have been written outside the boundaries of the United States and beyond the control of U.S. law, including at least one open source package, Cryptix. These implementations are available around the globe to anybody who wants them. Sun and the U.S. government have no control over or involvement in the development of these packages. At least until now.
posted by J Slave 12/20/2001

bouncycastle.org Here at the Bouncy Castle, we believe in encryption. That's something that's near and dear to our hearts. We believe so strongly in encryption, that we've gone to the effort to provide some for everybody.
The Bouncy Castle Crypto APIs consist of the following:
A lightweight cryptography API in Java.
A provider for the JCE and JCA.
A clean room implementation of the JCE 1.2.1.
Generators for Version 1 and Version 3 X.509 certificates and PKCS12 files.
A signed jar version suitable for JDK 1.4 (Beta) and the Sun JCE.
The lightweight API works with everything from the J2ME to the JDK 1.3
posted by J Slave 12/20/2001

Exchanging Files If you want to electronically send an important document, such as a contract, to someone else, it is a good idea to digitally "sign" the document, so that the recipient has a way of checking that the document indeed came from you and was not altered in transit.
This lesson illustrates the use of security-related tools for the exchange of an important document, in this case a contract. You first pretend that you are the contract sender, Stan Smith. This lesson shows the steps Stan would use to put the contract in a JAR file, sign it, and export the public key certificate for the public key corresponding to the private key used to sign the JAR file.
Then you pretend that you are Ruth, who has received the signed JAR file and the certificate. You'll use keytool to import the certificate into Ruth's keystore in an entry aliased by stan, and the jarsigner tool to verify the signature.
posted by J Slave 12/20/2001

API and Tools Use for Secure Code and File Exchanges This lesson contains overview information to help you understand why digital signatures, certificates, and keystores are needed. The lesson also compares use of the tools versus the JDK Security API with respect to generating signatures.
posted by J Slave 12/20/2001

Amazon Honor System The Amazon Honor System is a safe and easy way for you to support your favorite Web sites and to buy digital content on the Web. Amazon.com has successfully completed hundreds of millions of online transactions and has more than 25 million customers. Now, the Amazon Honor System lets you use Amazon.com payment technology to make payments to Web sites as small as $1.00.
Web sites use the Amazon Honor System to collect voluntary payments from their users and to accept payment for digital content. In many cases, the Honor System is the only way a Web site can economically collect small payments. In others, the Honor System allows the Web site to raise money for continued operations without resorting to intrusive banner advertisements.
posted by J Slave 12/20/2001

Tuesday, December 18, 2001

SourceForge: Project Info - BeeGram Search Engine ToolkitThe BeeGram library is a portable open source search engine toolkit written in C. BeeGram provides a number of building blocks for the construction of powerful general-purpose text-based search tools.

posted by J Slave 12/18/2001

SourceForge: Project Info - JE EditorJE is a fast, feature rich and powerful programming editor written in Java 1.1 (no Swing). It has all features a modern editor must have, plus some more. JE can also be used as a editor panel in other Java applications or applets.
posted by J Slave 12/18/2001

SourceForge: Project Info - eMATgine serverThe eMATgine server is: a multi-protocol server with http,ftp,wap,SMTP,POP3 connection; a multi-terminal server: users can use an ie, a wap phone. This server is a full multi-threaded JAVA server using database (mysql, hsqldb)

posted by J Slave 12/18/2001

MagicStats 2.0 Homepage MagicStats is a modular log analysis program that can be used to monitor a web site's performance. MagicStats offers three levels of customization possibilities, depending on how deep you want to get into the system. Most users prefer to use simple configuration files to set up MagicStats, but some prefer to create custom themes (using an extended HTML syntax: Note that themes are NOT "skins"), and still others develop plugins in C to extend the base analysis framework
posted by J Slave 12/18/2001

SourceForge: Project Info - NeatSeekerNeatSeeker is a collection of Java classes for building search engines. It also offers reference implementations of an HTML indexer and a Servlet API 2.2 compliant Java servlet that can be used for indexing and searching web sites.
posted by J Slave 12/18/2001

SourceForge: Project Info - Info-ChargeInfo-Charge is a free, web-based, multi-purpose assessment and survey application. It allows you create "Surveys" and "Pathfinders", gather reponses, and perform comprehensive summary stats. The source is an excellent way to get started with MySQL
posted by J Slave 12/18/2001

SourceForge: Project Info - Java EMail Server and Messaging SystemJEM is an SMTP server with pluggable components that let you process email in any way you like. It can also extend beyond emails into generalised message processing (like JMS) and can even generate its own messages based on a Cron-like facility.
posted by J Slave 12/18/2001

OpenSymphony - Welcome To OpenSymphony OpenSymphony is an Open Source project dedicated to providing enterprise class J2EE applications and components. Our components aim to be specification compliant, and should work in any J2EE compliant application server. (Although some components only require a servlet container rather than a full J2EE app server).
posted by J Slave 12/18/2001

Thursday, December 13, 2001

the serverside.com - your middleware portal Inderjeet Singh
J2EE Blueprints Architect, Sun Microsystems
Inderjeet Singh is a staff engineer with Sun Microsystems where he architects the J2EE BluePrints program. He has been involved with the J2EE BluePrints since its inception. In this interview, Inderjeet will talk about the J2EE Blueprints, where to store state (the database, servlet, client, or EJB layer), and the relationship between the MVC architecture and J2EE applications.
Discuss this Video.
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posted by J Slave 12/13/2001

Tuesday, December 11, 2001

NNTP specifies a protocol for the distribution, inquiry, retrieval,
and posting of news articles using a reliable stream-based
transmission of news among the ARPA-Internet community. NNTP is
designed so that news articles are stored in a central database
allowing a subscriber to select only those items he wishes to read.
Indexing, cross-referencing, and expiration of aged messages are also
provided. This RFC suggests a proposed protocol for the ARPA-Internet
community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
posted by J Slave 12/11/2001

Welcome to Original Reusable Objects, a Savarese.Org Project Thousands of Java developers have been using ORO Software since 1997. Yet many developers have eschewed the software for lack of easy access to the source code, despite the liberal binary license which allowed use of the software for almost all development purposes. Now, it has been decided to release the source code for the benefit of the Java development community.

NetComponents TM provides one-stop shopping for all your IETF protocol Java programming needs. Access FTP servers from your Java applications, send email from your Java applets, or automate access to Telnet accessible resources.

OROMatcher TM 1.0 is perhaps the most comprehensive regular expression package available for Java. OROMatcher TM is 100% compatible with Perl5 regular expressions and also supports the processing of InputStreams. Unlike other commercial regular expression packages for Java, the license to use OROMatcher TM for software development purposes is FREE. So try it out, and add the power of regular expressions to your Java programs.

posted by J Slave 12/11/2001

A Simple NNTP Server

Recently, Robert Uomini wrote this offline NNTP server class and shared it with the JDC. Basically, the attached code simulates a simple NNTP server that provides offline newsreader support to WebReader. Here are the actual guts of the program, defined in the ServerThread class. Enjoy!
posted by J Slave 12/11/2001

Wednesday, December 05, 2001

SQL Getting Started This document contains proprietary information of IBM. It is provided under a license agreement and is protected by copyright law. The information contained in this publication does not include any product warranties and any statements provided in this manual should not be interpreted as such.
posted by J Slave 12/5/2001

O'Reilly Network: Filtering SELECTed Data with WHERE [Nov. 03, 2000]
posted by J Slave 12/5/2001

Interactive SQL Syntax

This page provides information on commonly used SQL syntax.
posted by J Slave 12/5/2001