Version five of the graphics and animation program provides developers with XML support and ActionScript - a JavaScript-like language for creating interactivity - which, according to the company, can dramatically reduce development time.
IBM has joined Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net development programme. DB2 developers already use Visual Studio - Microsoft's application for software developers - to create other Windows-based applications.
Used broadly in the industry, the term web services is an umbrella phrase to describe modular applications that can easily exchange data over the Internet using XML (extensible markup language)-based protocols.
The upshot is that developers can ensure that a new application is fully compatible with their network infrastructure before releasing it into the wild, as opposed to the old trial-and-error style of testing, said Rick LaPlante, general manager of...
As it does with many of its services, Google will release an application programming interface (API) to create an XML feed based on a specific query. The search and indexing can cover code on web pages as well as code that resides in compressed...
Google admitted that the system is comparable to long-established projects such as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), which is often used in Ajax web programming. Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a...