Altova(R) Inc. (www.altova.com) producers of Altova XMLSPY(R), the world's leading XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) development environment, today announced that the Home Edition of its award-winning XMLSPY product is now being offered to the public through a free software license.

RAPID, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that enables agricultural businesses to achieve the economic benefits of e-Business, today announced the launch of AGIIS 2.5 (Agriculture Industry Identification System), adding new XML interfaces and Web Services to the only online and integrated e-Business database for agriculture.

The initial InfoPath 2003 release helped businesses begin to realize the power and flexibility that comes from using XML and Web services throughout the enterprise. Most already understood the basic interoperability benefits of these technologies, but it wasn't until the release of InfoPath 2003 that they were able to visualize how members across their organizations could tap into their XML resources.

With Web services having been around for a few years now, we're finding out that life isn't quite as easy as just throwing objects over the wall on port 80 and reconsituting them on the other end of the wire. Forum offers a number of products designed to make exposing Web services more secure, as well as to improve functionality and interoperability over what's offered by the basic Web services protocols. This week they announced version 3.0 of their XWall Web services firewall. I managed to drag them away from the N+I trade show floor long enough to talk about the new release.

Sarvega(TM), Inc., the leading provider of high-performance XML networking solutions, announced today that its industry-leading XML Speedway(TM) Accelerator has been selected to speed XSLT processing in support of one of the UK's leading online legal content providers. The Practical Law Company (www.practicallaw.com), a leading business law publisher in the UK, has deployed the Sarvega XML Speedway Accelerator to meet the mission-critical acceleration, scalability, and reliability demands of its web-based legal know-how subscription services.

CustomWeather is proud to announce the launch of a new weather toolkit that allows for the instant creation of a weather section based on its proprietary XML query system through a http interface. The toolkit can also be used to retrieve weather content for any software application that runs Java. The new toolkit is a hands-off solution based on the MyForecast suite of products and can retrieve weather content in 9 languages including English, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Chinese, and Swedish. Detailed local weather content is available for all portions of the world. CustomWeather clients can now instantly achieve the same look and feel as MyForecast.com pages, or easily modify HTML pages to correspond with their own look and feel.

Eurobase Banking Solutions, a division of the Eurobase International Group, has announced the launch of a new XML Gateway product to support connectivity using the TWIST XML standard.

This application allows you to create a connection to a database (MS SQL and Access) and select from the tables and views in that database then create an xml file based upon that items schema or data. The xml extract is displayed in the browser pane as well as written to file in a directory named after the database within the applications directory.

Barely a month after introducing its XStudio 2.5 XML editing tool, Snapbridge Software Inc. in late April brought out a beefed-up version, along with a low-priced XML server.

Altova's xmlspy has been one of the top XML editors for several years due to its support for XML document editing, schema design and validation, XSLT editing and debugging, and WSDL/SOAP capabilities. I've been a fan of xmlspy, but have often wished there were a way to integrate it into existing Visual Studio .NET projects. This capability is now possible with Altova's release of xmlspy 2004. You can use the product within Visual Studio .NET directly; this is a big win for .NET/XML and Web service developers

Explains how to use the XML Diff and Patch tool, which compares two XML files and produces an XML output of the differences, by utilizing a typical scenario that readers can apply to their own applications.

Learn how the .NET Framework's set of classes and associated tools for manipulating XML data can be woven together to form an impressive array of options for constructing XML processing solutions.

Explains how to use the XML Diff and Patch tool, which compares two XML files and produces an XML output of the differences, by utilizing a typical scenario that readers can apply to their own applications.

Snapbridge XStudio is a powerful and flexible development environment for building information integration solutions based on eXtensible Markup Language (XML) technologies, fully supporting the creation of XSL, XSLT, and of scripts to choreograph the integration and publication of information.

Stylus Studio 5.1 is a leading XML Integrated Development Environment, offering innovative editors, debuggers and other features to increase productivity with XML. Learn how Stylus Studio various XML editing tools can simplify your next XML development challenge:

MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is a complete replacement of MSXML 4.0 and MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1). MSXML 4.0 SP2 provides a number of security and bug fixes. MSXML 4.0 SP2 does not replace MSXML 3.0.

XMLSPY 5 builds on the success of previous award winning versions adding innovative new features designed to tackle the development of advanced XML and Web Services applications.

This section presents some XML browsers tools.

XML Spy 2004 Product description. XMLSPY 2004 is the most comprehensive XML tool for Advanced XML Application Development. XML Spy 2004 available versions.

XML promises to be a technology that unifies mobile workers with enterprise applications. In this article, Bryan Morgan takes a look at the kXML parser designed specifically for the J2ME environment.