Bookmarks for IT 220

Web Technologies

Course Syllabus

Last Updated 12/22/04

© Margaret Menzin

 

I am particularly grateful to my IT 220 students for their contributions to these links

 




Please note that many elementary bookmarks may also be found at http://web.simmons.edu/~menzin/CS101_Site/bookmarks.html
Some of these bookmarks are old, but they include many links on web-safe colors, free graphics, site design issues, JavaScript tutorials, etc.


Please be sure to check the General Tools section, in addition to the sections for specific topics.

 

Table of Contents

General Tools

Tools for many IT 220 topics
Tools for many IT topics - not course specific

Misc. tools

HTML/XHTML including CSS

  XHTML/HTML
       XHTML/HTML  Documentation
       XHTML/HTML Tutorials and Articles
       XHTML/HTML Links and Resources
                      HTML Tidy and Validation
                      Other XHTML Links and Resources
      Note: DHTML is in the JavaScript section
   CSS or Cascading Style Sheets
      CSS Documentation
      CSS Tutorials and Articles
      CSS Links and Resources

JavaScript
       JS Documentation
       JS Tutorials and Articles
       JS Links and Resources
       DHTML - Dynamic HTML = JavaScript + XHTML


Web Services

General Information

Web Servers
Other General Information – including information on SOAP, WSDL and UDDI

XML, XST, XPath etc

          XML

               XML  Documentation, Tutorials and Articles

                             Documentation
                             Tutorials

                             Other Resources and Articles
               XML view of XHTML
                XMLSpy
               XML Other Parsers

               XML and Encryption
           XSL/XSLT and XPath
                XSL/XSLT and XPath - Articles, Tutorials and Documentation
                XSL etc. Tools and Implementations 

            XML and Security  
            Extensions to Other Languages - MathML, eBXML, BPML, RDF and RSS etc.                

Other Web Technologies

CGI - see also Perl

          Perl - see also CGI

               ActivePerl (free)

               PERL Documentation, Tutorials and Resources
               PERL Examples, Scripts, Hints

          PHP
          Python

          And more - ASP etc.
Amazon and Web Services

Java

 

IT 220 Bookmarks

General Tools

Tools for Many IT 220 Topics

Webmonkey: The Web Developer's Resource

Large and useful site on site design for professionals - from beginner to master- many links; Includes info on PERL etc

DevEdge Netscape Sidebar Tabs

Sidebars for HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc. you may install in Netscape 6+ for heavy duty developers.

WebDeveloper.com ®: Where Web Developers and Designers Learn How to Build Web Sites, Program in Java and JavaScript and More!

            Links on Html, XHTML, JavaScript, Perl, CGI etc.
HotScripts
             Articles on scripts for many languages and technologies - Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript, XML
Web Developer's Virtual Library
             Tutorials on authoring, including intermediate level ones; JavaScript, CSS, XML,etc.
w3schools
             On-line tutorials for many subjects - including CSS, XML, etc.  Usually a very clear survey of the issues, features, syntax. 
             Read before you get into the grubby details for an excellent overview.

 

ASPN

Resource for programmers in PERL, PHP, Python, etc. Major site.

Kira's Web Toolbox

 

Builder.com - Beyond the code

Web services, Java, Database, Unix, XHTML etc.   Some articles more obscure than useful.  Newsletters

The Digital Divas - A Network of Digitally Gifted Women

Links to sites for HTML, CGI, Perl, etc.
Survey of browser usage
             But beware that Netscape and Mozilla may be confounded; see also description of Mozilla

Many scripts in many languages

            Includes HTML, RSS, Perl

The Experts

            Links to Dmitry’s Design lab ( a favorite), articles on XML, DHTML

w3schools tutorials

            Tutorials on web services, XML, XPath etc and links to browser statistics and info

w3.org

            All the specs on all the web standards and some (difficult) primers

Goodies To Go! Newsletter Archive

Index of useful articles on many topics - from technical issue to optimizing for search engines

 

 

 

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IT in general - not course specific

FTP Utilities

SSH Communications Security : Home

Site for Secure FTP utility we are using

FTP server that meets the needs of administrators for servers of every size - sharing files is simple with Serv-U, the industry's most popular secure FTP server.

AnotherSecure FTP utility - 30 day trial

Choosing an FTP utility

FTP for various OS's.

Download WS_FTP LE

Liense for current edit0in of Ipswitch FTP Home Edition (low cost) 

FTPplanet.com - A community site for users of FTP

Ipswitch's site, including guide on their FTP utility

Setting up your FTP utility

SmartFTP

A free FTP utility

Filezilla

Free FTP and  SFTP (Secure FTP) utility (from GNU)

CyberDuck

            Another free FTP and SFTP utility

Fugu

            SFTP with a graphical front-end

           

 

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                        UNIX/LINUX

                       

While you are on a UNIX/LINUX machine:

man commandName  gives the manual’s sections on that command.

 

A tutorial which starts with the basic but goes to more topics –

great resource

UNIX Systems Admin

            Very detailed course

There are many LINUX (and UNIX) groups on Google

 

The following are all very, very basic:

BigNoseBird Introduction and tutorials

Quick, barely large enough to be useful introduction to LINUX and file permissions with link to good vi tutorial and cgi scripts

Even shorter primer at MIT

Linux Primer from Clark University

Good introductory primer

Another basic intro –

from Bridgewater College

A tutorial which starts with the basic but goes to more topics –

great resource

Linux Links

– including a place for newbies,

               but most of the searches link to books at Amazon

 

To edit all scripts with one line of Perl

LinuxPlanet

has a lot of info – perhaps more than you want

There are elementary tutorials on shell programming etc – starting basic

Shell programming Part 1 talks about basics – copying, moving files etc.;

part 2 talks about pipes, redirection and I/O.

 

vi and vim documentation and tutorials:

There is a tutorial on most UNIX/LINUX machines. 

Type vimtutorial   (Vim is an update of vi.)

BigNoseBird Tutorial

            Very useful cheat sheet of editing commands

 

 

 

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Search Engines and Getting Found

SearchEngines.com - search engine rankings and search engine optimization tips.

Largest site on search engines; newsletters etc. How to get found and where you want to be found

Search Engines: What's the Difference?

Google vs. Yahoo vs. Ask Jeeves / Teoma

Goodies to Go! Newsletter #281

Search engines- met-tags and general intro

Goodies to Go! Newsletter #282

Which search engine do you wish to optimize your site for?

Goodies to Go! Newsletter #286

On getting found - belongs in Search Engines

Major Search Engines and Directories

Major search engines and how to get listed

Before You Write Meta Tags

Uses for meta-tags, including general and internal search engines

 

Other IT Tools

Builder.com - Beyond the code

Web services, Java, Database, Unix, XHTML etc.

Reviews and free downloads at Download.com

Free FTP utility from Ipswitch - may be older version, in case can't find current version from Ipswitch

https://techrepublic-secure.com.com/5106-6242-24-15872.html?part=tr&subj=15872

CD on how to manage a small office network

PDFConverterX, PDF to Text Component for Conversion

Tool to convert PDF documents to text or HTML. Maybe old

Choosing a CMS - What you Need to Know

Choosing a CMS (Content Management System)

                       TIOBE Community Bulletin Board
                                     Lists frequency of queries about various languages

                      Tech news sources

          DDJ

                        Dr. Dobbs Journal has links on many programming languages and plateforms
 

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Tools for accessibility - e.g. so sites work for color blind viewers

          Web Accessibility Initiative
                   W3c's links to everything you could need to know about accessibility problems on-line
                     and how to address them.
                    This site links to EVERYTHING.

Color Deficient Vision

See how your site looks to someone who is color-blind with links (at bottom) to transforming tools

BTexact Technologies > Safe Web Colours

Browser safe colors for color-blind and links to other references

Q42

See how your site looks to someone who is color blind

BTexact Technologies > Colours > References

References on designing for color blind etc.

BTexact Technologies > Colours > Palette files

Palettes which show exactly what colors will get confused

Accessibility and the Web - Designing Web Pages that are Color-Blind Friendly

Rules so your site will be accessible for the color-blind

The Web Accessibility Initiative

Links to resources and guidelines from w3.org 

This is an umbrella initiative

CSS for aural style sheets

For pages which are read aloud

          Web documentation for aural style sheets

From w3.org

 

 

 

 

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Other IT Tools and Resources

Client and server

Intro to terms

Builder.com : Program : Web Technologies

Newletters on CSS, XHTML, JavaScript etc.

Builder.com : Architect : Web Services

Newletters on web services

Goodies To Go! Newsletter Archive

Index of useful articles on many topics - from technical issue to optimizing for search engines

The Digital Divas - A Network of Digitally Gifted Women

Links to sites for HTML, CGI, Perl, etc.

Sun Microsystems

Sun's developper site - info on Java, Wev Services, etc.

WebDeveloper.com ®: Where Web Developers and Designers Learn How to Build Web Sites, Program in Java and JavaScript and More!

            Links on Html, XHTML, JavaScript, Perl, CGI etc.

Amaya Home Page

Editor which includes extenstions to MathML

Webmonkey | Reference: Special Characters

   Another list of all the specal codes

 

 

 

 

 

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Misc Tools- not ITT  related

VisiBone Touch-Typing Tutor

Typing tutor - in case you need it or know someone who does

WinSite: Graph paper printer

Print your own graph paper

 

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HTML and XHTML, including CSS

  XHTML/HTML

Documentation for HTML and XHTML

HTML Codes - Special Characters - ASCII Table

Codes for < , accented letters and other special characters

Webmonkey | Reference: Special Characters

Another list of all the specal codes

XHTML Elements Library - HTML Tag Library

Links to summary of tags for HTML/XHTML by function (at bottom) and alphabetcally (to right of spnsored links box) and links to summary of modules (major chunks by function) for XHTML

Modularization of XHTML

Good intro to modularization of XHTML

You Already Write for Cell Phones - XHTML Basic

Modules and tags included in XHTML Basic, so you can write for PDAs, cell phones, etc. Also see link above this.

VisiBone HTML and CSS Products

Cards summarizing HTML, CSS, JavaScript sntax (to buy)

The span and div Tags

XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)

Turning HTML into XHTML from w3.org

HTML Working Group Roadmap

What modules and versions will be coming your way when

 

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Tutorials and Articles for HTML and XHTML

See also CS101 pages and sections Documentation and Links and Resources

The span and div Tags

Attributes and XML

Intro to attributes and values

Modularization of XHTML

Good intro to modularization of XHTML

XHTML 101 - Free HTML Course

You Already Write for Cell Phones - XHTML Basic

Modules and tags included in XHTML Basic, so you can write for PDAs, cell phones, etc. Also see link above this.

What's in a Title

What the title tag does for you and how to find it.

The trouble with using ems and percents for font sizing

Pitfalls of relative sizing for fonts

Are keywords the answer for font sizing?

Keywords work better than absolute or relative sizes for fonts

WDVL: Server-side Scripting

Excellent introduction to what CGI is and why it's needed.

WDVL: The GET Method

How GET assembles a request, so the HTTP request can be isolated and CGI can isolate the search parameters and their values

WDVL: Problems With the GET Method

WDVL: Request Headers

What's in an http header

WDVL: The POST Method

How POST assembles a request etc

WDVL: The <Form> Tag

Specifying POST and to what CGI script

Making the switch to XHTML

Why to switch from HTML to XHTML

Using Web Pages with Excel

How to set up your web page so that it may be downloaded into Excel

XHTML tutorials

Change the 1-1 in the URL to 2-1, 3-1, etc. to step thru the tutorials

WDVL: Introduction to XHTML, with eXamples

XHTML tutorial

Using an HTML Validator

Quirks Mode - Using the DOCTYPE Tag

Why you need the DOCTYPE

Rise of the Underdog Browser

Why you need to design for all browsers

Font Families: How to Decide Which Font Family to Use -- Serif, Sans-Serif, Monospace, Script, Fantasy

Links to many code warriors and sites on dynamic HTML

          WDVL: Introduction to XHTML with eXamples

 

 

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Links and Resources for HTML and XHTML

        HTML Tidy and connections between HTML and XHTML

Clean up your Web pages with HTML TIDY

Link to HTMLTidy - turns your HTML into XHTML.

HTML Tidy Project Page

The actual HTML Tidy programs

XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)

How to write HTML which is XHTML compatible

HTML tidy service

HTML Tidy on-line (interactive)

HTML Tidy Configuration Options Quick Reference

Options you may set for HTML Tidy at SourceForge. This is a huge site, with a library of Tidy that you can call in various languages, and tools for version management.

Tidy Online

Another place to check your HTML and VALIDATE it!

Tidy Online

HTML tidy service

W3c Validator

Clean up your Web pages with HTML TIDY

What HTML Tidy does for your code

HTML Tidy - Frequently Asked Questions

W3C Markup Validation Service: Upload Files

Validate your XHTML

HTML Tidy Configuration Options Quick Reference

How to download your own copy of HTML Tidy and set the options

CSE HTML Validator Online Check

On-line HTML Validator

HTML Kit

          Customizable HTL editor with HTML Tidy and beyond for validation; free for personal use.

 

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  Other XHTML Links and Resources

Modularization of XHTML

Good int0 to modularization of XHTML

CSE HTML Validator Online Check

On-line HTML Validator

DevEdge Netscape Sidebar Tabs

Sidebars for HTML, CSS, javascript etc. you may install in Netscape 6+ for heavy duty developers.

HTML Editors and Software for Web Development

Editors, image map tools, etc.

Open Source Web Development - Dev Shed

Articles on XHTML,CSS, XML, Perl, etc

WDVL: The <Form> Tag

Specifying POST and to what CGI script

rdf:#$P0xNY3" last_modified=1087410341 add_date=1087410299 last_charset=ISO-8859-1 last_visit=1087412494>Focus on forms

The focus() and blur() methods

Accessibility and the Web - Designing Web Pages that are Color-Blind Friendly

Rules so your site will be accesible for the color-blind

The impact of links and link text on search engine placement

Getting found

Software Review: Hypertext Builder 2003 - WebReference.com

Hypertext Builder is an XHTML editor; costs only $12.

W3C Markup Validation Service: Upload Files

Validate your XHTML

XHTML Frequently Answered Questions

DHTML Code Samples, www.getElementById.com, get free DHTML Scripts and DHTML Tutorials

Links to many code warriors and sites on dynamic HTML

Amaya Home Page

Editor which includes extenstions to MathML

About.com: http://watson.addy.com/

Tool to verify syntax, links, download spee etc for HTML pages

 

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CSS or Cascading Style Sheets 

Documentation for CSS etc.

W3C HTML Home Page

Style Activity Statement

Status of various projects on style sheets - including CSS and XSL

Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2

The w3c specification of CSS. Includes what values may be assgned to what attributes, etc.

Fonts

w3c's definitions of the characteristcs of fonts which you may specif, and how to do it.

Property index

Chart with all possible properties, possible value and default values.

Descriptor index

Highly technical reference on CSS descriptors,mostly related to fonts. Advanced and not normally useful.

XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)

Guidelines so your XHTML will work in existing HTML browsers

VisiBone HTML and CSS Products

Cards summarizing HTML, CSS, JavaScript sntax (to buy)

CSS Reference Table

Very useful table of attributes and values

Learning CSS

Books and articles on learning CSS

Web Style Sheets

w3c on style sheets - CSS and XSL

          CSS for aural style sheets

For pages which are read aloud

          Web documentation for aural style sheets

From w3.org

 

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Tutorials & Articles for CSS

Learning CSS

Books etc. on CSS from w3c.org

Starting with HTML + CSS

First look at CSS

CSS Tutorial

Dave Raggett's Introduction to CSS

from Dave Raggett at w3c.org

RichInStyle.com CSS2 tutorial

CSS How to

                     Usual excellent introduction from w3schools.com

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) By Example: CSS Resources

           Fine set of tutorials and links

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Tutorial

About's CSS tutorilas, including table of contents to various lessons.

CSS Lesson 1: What are Cascading Style Sheets &# [ ]

Intro to CSS with links to many tutorials

CSS Lesson 2: Inline Styles &# [ ]

Where to put your styling - inline, external, etc.

CSS Lesson 3: <font> vs CSS &# [ ]

Text and font attributes

CSS Lesson 4: CSS Backgrounds &# [ ]

Backgrounds, boxes (can we live without tables?) and positioning

CSS Lesson 5: Tips and Tricks with CSS &# [ ]

DHTML and other tricks

CSS2 Generated Content

How to get CSS2 to manage your bullets, numbering etc. Unfortunately IE has not yet implemented the :before and :after pseudo-elements

          CSS Positioning

          CSS Boxes

and dressing up your borders

HTML Goodies - Explorer Tutorials

Well written tutorials, very clear, but maybe dated (e.g. CSS1 instead of CSS2, and doesn't appear to know that Navigator supports CSS too)

About.com: http://www.w3j.com/5/s3.walsh.html

No-nonsense tutorial on CSS for someone who just wants to get on with the job, and has no patience for clicking thru hundreds of pages

W3C Journal

Another link to the same tutorial

About.com: http://WDVL.com/Authoring/Style/Sheets/Tutorial.html

WDVL: Introduction to Style Sheets

Tutorial on CSS - good top-down approach; be sure to also look at their pages on Designing CSS Web Pages in the "Links and Resources for CSS" section below.

ate=1087406944 last_charset=ISO-8859-1>

Layers in CSS

WDVL: Linking Styles to Documents

How to link a style sheet to your page

What browsers support in CSS and how to Displaying Stylesheets Dynamically

What browsers support what features and links on work-arounds for older browsers

Dealing with differences in CSS floats in IE and Netscape

advanced article; also relevant to next article.

Rearrange page code to raise text relevance

How to move the important terms nearer the top of the pge so your page gets found by search engines.

Change rollover effects by changing the order of CSS styles

Rollovers and the order of CSS styles

Why CSS styling is for tables too

Using CSS for tables

Integrated Web Design: Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management

How to keep your solutions to the CSS foibles of different browsers under control over time

Add clickable icons to your links

Use CSS to get pretty pictures as bullets in you lists

Top 10 CSS Tips for Creating and Using Cascading Style Sheets

WebDeveloper.com's Guide to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

CSS2 Generated Content

:before and :after; does not work in IE

 

 

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Links and Resources for CSS

W3C HTML Home Page

w3c.org- can't link to it too often

Learning CSS

Books and articles on learning CSS

W3C Core Styles

8 style sheets on w3c's server which you can link to from your pages.

Open Directory - Computers: Data Formats: Style Sheets: CSS

Many links for HTML, XHTML and CSS

VisiBone Style Sheet Examples

Examples of style shets; they all sell crib sheets for codes etc.

More Eric Meyer on CSS

More books by Eric Meyer on CSS

Offsite Beginning CSS Articles

Links to many CSS tutorials and articles

What browsers support in CSS and how to Displaying Stylesheets Dynamically

What browsers support what features and links on work-arounds for older browsers

WDVL: Designing CSS Web Pages

Interesting series of pages on knowing who your audience is etc. and how to design for them. Recommended

WDVL: House Style Sheet

Style sheet for all the WDVL pages

WDVL: Cascading Style Sheets Resources

Various on-line resources

WDVL: Cascading Style Sheets

Links to tutorials, design articles, and resources

W3C Journal

Offsite Beginning CSS Articles

Links to many CSS tutorials and articles

 

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JavaScript

Documentation for JavaScript

 

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Tutorials and Articles for JavaScript

Builder's JavaScript QuickStart Tool

Tutorial

Focus on forms

The focus() and blur() methods

DHTML Demonstrations Using DOM/Style

Great DOM demos for Dynamic pages

Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Preload Image (with progress bar) Script

Pre-loading images for swapping

Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic html) & JavaScript code library!

Huge site with DHTML scripts for dazzling effects

DHTML Code Samples, www.getElementById.com, get free DHTML Scripts and DHTML Tutorials

Link to several sites each of which has many DHTML scripts

 

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Links and Resources for JavaScript 

SiteExperts.com - Your Community of Site Experts

Another community of web developers

 

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DHTML - Dynamic HTML (i.e. JavaScript + XHTML)

Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic html) & JavaScript code library!

        Lively effects using DHTML, JavaScript and CSS. Not for seate pages
DHTML Code Samples, www.getElementById.com, get free DHTML Scripts and DHTML Tutorials

        Links to many code warriors and sites on dynamic HTML

Dynamic HTML...Are You Ready to Step Up to the Plate? Part I

 

 



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Web Services

Web Services - general information

           What are web services?

                    The “home” links to many articles about web services

         MetaMap of how the different technologies are related

                     May be more useful after you know a little about the area

         Training for web services

         The bottom has links to vendor training, such as that at CapeClear, Systinet

          Collaxa, and Grand Central.  These sites have lots of information – e.g. tutorials

                                  on regular expressions and Java Web Services at CapeClear, design patterns for

                                  business services at Grand Central and Middleware.

 

 

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Web Servers

Goodies to Go! Newsletter #289

Hosting on windows vs. Linux/UNIX

Web Services

Sun's site for web services info and downloads

        

 

Apache

Using Apache with Microsoft Windows - Apache HTTP Server

Info on Apache for Windows

 

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                Web Services - Other General Information

WDVL: Table of Contents on Web Programming

Tutorial on server-side programming and sending info from HTML forms. Excellent intro.

WDVL: Request Headers

What's in an http header

Web Services group of w3c  

            With links to many subgroups

InfoWorld: Web services alphabet soup: February 20, 2004: By Jon Udell: Application Development

Web services alphabet soup - and modularity

Web services B2B demonstration: The complete series

9-part series of a complete B2B web service implementation

Trying to make Web services make sense

Are the standards there yet?

Client and server

Intro to terms

XML.com: A Web Services Primer

primer on web services terminology

XML.com: Web Services Integration Patterns, Part 1

Patterns of web services

XML.com: Web Services Integration Patterns, Part 2

More of same

InfoWorld: Rounding up Web services intermediaries: July 02, 2004: By Phillip J. Windley : APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : WEB_SERVICES

Programs to manage, monitor, bill for web services

Computerworld Development

Several articles on state of web services in 2004

IT Management: Quality Quest

Testing a SOA

IBM’s Alphaworks site has many topics

            Not for newbies

The Value of a Service Oriented Architecture

           Part 1 and Part 2

Microsoft’s Office Bridge to hook into web services

Web services example

 Recurrent payments and PayPal

       Training for web services

         The bottom has links to vendor training, such as that at CapeClear, Systinet

          Collaxa, and Grand Central.  These sites have lots of information – e.g. tutorials

                                  on regular expressions and Java Web Services at CapeClear, design patterns for

                                  business services at Grand Central and Middleware.

     Web Services challenges

He first is no quality of service (QOS) warranties.  There are other issues, too.

     Other web services challenges

As the files get bigger and bigger, what happens?

      Web services and security issues

                        Related to data transit

      SOAP tutorial

Usual excellent start from w3schools.com

     SOAP Primer

                        From w3.org.  If you have already worked through the w3schools tutorial,

                        Start at section 2.1

     WSDL tutorial

Usual excellent start from w3schools.com

     Examine how SOAP works

                         Interesting demos.  May need to poke around this site a bit.

                                    Can Try it!  And see the WSDL code behind it
    WS-Security is the specification for web services security
                      
This is from OASIS

                Web services, SOA and Application Frameworks

                                    Making them work together to address issues such as scalability,

                                    Security, and transaction and state management.

                                    There are also links to a reading list on the left.

                                    This site, which includes the next few links, focuses on web services architecture.

                Web Services, UDDI and eMarketplaces

                 The interaction of eBXML and WebServices

                 IBM’s site on ontology-based web services

 

 

 

 

 

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XML, XPath, XLST etc

 

  XML

 

XML Articles, documentation and tutorials

Documentation

W3C HTML Home Page

XML.com: XML From the Inside Out -- XML development, XML resources, XML specifications

What is XML?

XML.com: XML From the Inside Out -- XML development, XML resources, XML specifications

Cover Pages: Extensible Markup Language (XML)

XML Terms

What the basic terms mean

XML homepage from the w3c

Includes description of the many working groups and links to them, to various languages
specifications and versions, and to many other resources.

XML Schemas

            What are the components of an XML Schema

            And here they are as a DTD

XML Recommendations

             Homepage
XML Specs
            from w3c.org
XMLNamespaces
           from w3c.org

XML Namespaces

          Introductory tutorial from the About.com site

 

 

Tutorials – note:  Tutorials on SOAP and WSDL are under the “Web Services” heading

XML Tutorial from w3schools
             Great introductiory tutorial.
 
              See also their description of XML syntax

TopXML : XML Tools, XML Articles and XML Learning Tutorials

Many tutorials - XML, SOAP, XSLT, etc and also links to XML parsers. Great site.

XML Tutorials from w3Schools

            Good starting tutorial

Another very basic tutorial

            So you don’t get scared away.

Good basic tutorial from WDVL

            But doesn’t get to schemas

Links to very many tutorials

            From IBM, Microsoft, etc. at various levels and on sub-topics (e.g. security)

Wonderful set of links to tools, tutorials, and many resources for XML

                     Also has info on links to databases and server-side uses of XML

Tutorials on everything from HTML to XML

            Some in many languages (e.g. Czech)

There are gazillions of free tutorials on-line thru a Google search

XML Schema from w3.org---good if you know a little bit

            Primer,  Structures  and DataTypes   

TECFA’s huge set of links on XML

            Enormous and very useful set of links on validators and parsers,

XML, XSL etc, tutorials and news about XML languages.

XFront has links to many great tutorials

including XML Schema,  Canonical XML, Best Practices on same, etc and also

XSDs for all countries, all currencies, etc.  Great source!

Tutorial from Roger Costello on Best Practices for XML Schema

              Another link to the same tutorial

.NET and XML: XSD Schemas

Tutorial on schemas

Tutorials from the ACM

There are several.  This is the most advanced so far

XML and DOM

            Usual excellent introduction from w3school.com

Tutorial on understanding SAX

From IBM

Tutorial on DOM

From IBM

Manipulating XML in Java (see also a search for JDOM)

Tutorial looks at SAX, DOM, JDOM and JAXP

 

 

   

 

Other resources and articles

     xml.apache.org

               Link to Xerces parser, implementations of XSL, etc

            A very important site

XML Developer Center Home

Microsoft's XML developer center, including articles, from intro to high level, and links

Open Source Web Development - Dev Shed

Articles on XHTML,CSS, XML, Perl, etc

XML Rich Client Technology Strengthens Java - Computerworld

More jargon than light

JARS Automatic Resource Listing

Java class to automate the encoding of properties from Java into XML

.NET and XML: XSD Schemas

Tutorial on schemas

Everything you always wanted to know about SAX (and XmlReader)

When to use SAX and when to use DOM

Application Design: Use DOM to create data-driven HTML documents

Using DOM to get conditional XML

XML Namespaces

Namespaces and how to avoid naming conflicts

XML.com: XML From the Inside Out -- XML development, XML resources, XML specifications

O'Reilly's XML site - many links

JARS Automatic Resource Listing

Class to encode from Java to XML 

                     Java and JDOM tutorial         

Database Configuration, the XML Alternative

Configuring / designing your database with XML

XML-Dev

            An open unmoderated discussion list on development of various XML languages;

        now managed by OASIS. 
        For the knowledgeable.

The Cover Pages

            Collection of on-line reference material on SGML/XML languages and various standards. 
             For the knowledgeable (except possiblby the news stories).
            News items are listed in the Cover Story

TECFA’s huge set of links on XML

            Enormous and very useful set of links on validators and parsers,

XML, XSL etc, tutorials and news about XML languages.

Perl and XML

       How to embed XML in an HTML Page

XML Tools

            Long and wonderful list from w3.org

Free XML Tools

            By platform, or vendor or name etc.

Alphaworks is IBM’s site

            This is the link for xml; manay links to subtopics

Summary of schema topics

XML takes over the user interface

With, we hope better solutions to accessibility issues

XML as architecture

Interesting view of t ubiquity and power of XML

XML and Java and the Document Object Model

This IBM site has many links to tutorials, information and documentation

On using Java to manipulate XML files, etc.  Very valuable.

XML and DOM

            Usual excellent introduction from w3school.com

Tutorial on understanding SAX

From IBM

Tutorial on DOM

From IBM

Manipulating XML in Java (see also a search for JDOM)

Tutorial looks at SAX, DOM, JDOM and JAXP

XML files tend to get very large

Which can cause problems – which some companies are working on

Microsoft’s DOM validator from XML

            Courtesy of w3schools.

 

 

 

 

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XML discusses XHTML

XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)

Discussion of XHTML1.0 as a re-formulation of HTML

XHTML Frequently Answered Questions

FAQs about why bother going to XHTML

XHTML 1.1 - Module-based XHTML

XHTML1.1 which is now a strict reformulation of HTML in XML

XHTML Modularization Overview

DTDs for XHTML

             See how HTML (XHTML) is formulated in an XML DTD

             There are several DTDs (depending on the version of XHTML you want 

 

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XMLSpy

Download Home Edition of XMLSpy (free)

         XMLSpy is a wonderful tool, and now the home edition is free. 

         Documentation and a brief tutorial are also available here, or a 30-trial of the Enterprise Edition.

Stylevision 2004 - XSLT Editing Tool

                            Download site for XML Spy

 

                   downloadspyhom

Download page for home version of XMLSpy

 

 

XML Other Parsers

xml.apache.org

               Link to Xerces parser, implementations of XSL, etc

                A very important site
tools: Developer Resources - FREE Tools

downloadspyhom

Download page for home version of XMLSpy

TopXML: Learn about XML Parsers

XML parsers including Microsoft's

TopXML: Learn about XML Parsers

more on Microsoft's

Xerces Java Parser Readme

Xerces is the free XML parser from Apache; does not support certain features of XML per Apache in June 2004

XML Parsers

Links and brief descriptions for many XML parsers.

JXMLPad - ZDNet Downloads

Module for Java Seing to edit XML and XHTML

JARS Automatic Resource Listing

XML/XSLT editor (java based)

Parsing XML documents with Perl's XML::Simple

PERL module which has an XML parser (written in PERL)

Scholarly Validator

            Free on-line validator from Brown University for small files

 

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XSL / XSLT including XPath

 

XSL/XSLT and XPath - Articles, documentation and tutorials

Why both CSS and XSL - which should I use?
            From w3c - who brought you both standards
When to use CSS (whenever you can) and when to us XSL (when you must)
XSL
    What are the components of XSL (XSLT, XPath, etc.) ?
    Very useful page with many good links

XSL Transformations (XSLT)

w3.org documentation on XSLT

Web Style Sheets

w3c on style sheets - CSS and XSL

The Extensible Stylesheet Language Family (XSL)

Links to specs, tutorials, and articles on XSL, XSLT etc.

XSLT client-side

                                 Simple introduction, but you’ll need the www.w3schools.com

                                  Or other tutorial to go further

How to translform XML into XHTML

XSL Homepage

            Including links to XPath, XQuery, XSLT, XSL-FO etc.

            There is a large list of links to specs on all these languages, mailing lists, and software.
            A great starting place for these technologies.

            You can also find links to examples of XSL style sheets (e.g. at TopXML)

Style Activity Statement

Status of various projects on style sheets - including CSS and XSL

XSL - Computerworld

What XSL is and why you should use it. Good start.

Sidebar: Additional resources about XSL - Computerworld

Books and links on XSLT

Spinning Your Code with XSLT and JSF in Cocoon

Using XSLT with Java Beans etc. Advanced.

Discover the Wonders of XSLT-Part 1

Good intro - XSLT itself

Discover the Wonders of XSLT -Part 2: XPaths

XPath

Discover the Wonders of XSLT-Part 3 of 3: Advanced Techniques

Tests and advanced techniques

What's New in XPath 2.0?

Understanding the XPath Data Model

XPath data model and how it works, with links to info on infosets. Not for beginners

Discover the Wonders of XSLT

XSLT - part 1 of the utorial

Discover the Wonders of XSLT: XPaths

XSLT and XPath - part 2 of the tutorial

Discover the Wonders of XSLT: Advanced Techniques

XSLT - advanced - tests - part 3 of the tutorial

Discover the Wonders of XSLT: XSLT Quirks

XSLT - quirks- part 4 of the tutorial

Discover the Wonders of XSLT: Workflows

Functions and Multiple Files

XPath and XSL tutorials

            From w3schools.org  I think this is the clearest of the introductory tutorials.

XPath tutorial with links to examples on the left side

             From Zvon

XPath Tutorial

           From TopXML

What's New in XPath 2.0?

The primary purpose of XPath is to address parts of an XML document. XPath uses a compact, non-XML syntax to facilitate use of XPath within URIs and XML attribute values. XPath gets its name from its use of a path notation as in URLs for navigating through the hierarchical structure of an XML document.

Java JAXP, Writing Java Code to Emulate an XSLT Transformation

Emulating XSLT transformations in Java

Introduction to XPath

.NET and XML: XPath Queries

Tutorial

Facilitating Teamwork with XML and XSL

XSL-FO - Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects

XSL-FO for formatting objects

Introduction to XSL - XSL, XSLT, XPath, and XSL Formatting Objects

Intro to XSL

 

Tools and implementations of XSLT

XT

Free implementation of XSLT written in java

JARS Automatic Resource Listing

XML/XSLT editor (java based)

How to transform XML into XHTML

 

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XML and Security
Trusting and verifying
         which comes first
W3c has many resources
WS-Security is the specification for web services security
          This is from OASIS
XAMCL stands for eXtensible Access Mark-up Control Language
           This is Sun’s implementation and programmer’s guide
SAML is one standard for secure web services
         from w3.org, of course.
         SAML stands for Security Assertion Mark-up Language

Encryption and XML

XML Encryption Added to Apache Project
Encryption working group at w3.org

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Specific extended MLs - MathML etc and also RDF and RSS
          Note: This is more or less business extensions first,
                    then scientific and security and miscellaneous,
                    then RDF and RSS

InfoWorld: XBRL: A case study in complexity: April 30, 2004: By Jon Udell : APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : DATA_MANAGEMENT : PLATFORMS : STANDARDS : WEB_SERVICES

How BusinessReportingML became too complex to work - good case study in design

ebXML: Introducing the Vision

What is eBXML? (hint: e is electronic and B is for Business) Follow links at bottom for series of articles - food series.

XBRL to Sharpen Banks' Biz Reports

XBRL (eXtended Business Reporting Language) must be used by banks and other public companies (per Sarbanes-Oxley Law) to consolidate units when they report their fiancial results; will also migrate to internal reports.

XML Variant to Ease Financial Reporting

How XMRL will help

Sarbanes-Oxley: Road to Compliance

What's involved in compliance for Sarbanes-Oxley from an IT point of view

Resilient: Making processes into objects - News - ZDNet

BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) for the non-techie

InfoWorld: Is BPEL the real deal?: July 02, 2004: By Phillip J. Windley : APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : WEB_SERVICES

          An introduction to ebXML

          The interaction of eBXML and WebServices

         UBL, or Universal Business Language

          Uses XML to define a vocabulary for common business forms, such as purchase orders etc.

          It is also designed to work with eBXML

Add XML functionality to your Flash movies

FlashXML

           MathML

Home page at w3.org

Amaya Home Page

Web authoring tool which includes support for MathML

Amaya Home Page

Editor which includes extensions to MathML

A markup language for designing GUIs

Security with SAML and XACML

         This area is still changing – suggest you search the w3.org site for these two extensions.

Links to books on VoiceXML etc.

            From  WDVL.com

Microsoft’s XML Visio Schemas

TimeML is a markup language for temporal events

XInclude

        An evolving specification for including &merging XML documents

        Not surprisingly it works only with schemas (no DTDs)

        

 

RDF – or Resource Description Framework – is a resource for describing catalogs:

    RDF Primer from w3.org

    RDF Spec from w3.org

    RDF is of interest to librarians, etc.

 

            RSS – or Really Simple Syndication -  is how an XML feed is used for blogging

and to update news continuously.

     What is RSS?

From O’Reilly – good casual introduction;

Includes a sample to get you started

                 What is RSS?

From webreference.com – lots of information

     An introduction to RSS

     RSS Syndication and Aggregation

     Web references on RSS

       RSS - Using XML to feed info on sites to subscribers

 RSS monitors (new) content on sites and feeds it to subscribers. May also be used for on-going education.

     Making headlines with RSS

     Many scripts including for RSS

      Scripts for Perl and RSS 

              Mother of Perl site

      Exploring RSS and XML in Flash

      RSS Feed for site listing free xml tools

            And DTD for the above

   RSS Enclosure exposure or pod-casting

            An audio RSS feed

  How to create your own RSS news feed

From w3.org, but with a quick “cheat sheet” on how to do it

 IBM maintains a site called alphaworks which provides

            Current information about RSS and other new technologies

  All the following information on RSS is from one of my students:

  Scripting news – by Dave Winer,

            Winer designed this format at Userland

             And uses it in his blog

  The history of RSS

  RSS 2.0 Spec

 How to set up a RSS channel

Using RSS 0.9

Clear explanation, tho’ RSS 2.0 is current spec

RSS Aggregators  / readers

Full list at http://blogspace.com/rss/readers

Mac OS X: NetNewsWire (http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/)

Windows: SharpReader (http://www.sharpreader.net)

Linux: Straw (http://www.nongnu.org/straw)

Web: Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com)

RSS Validators

FeedValidator.org (http://feedvalidator.org/)

UserLand’s validator (for 0.9x only) (http://rss.scripting.com/

Sites with RSS Feeds:

British Broadcasting Corporation (http://news.bbc.co.uk/shared/bsp/hi/services/htmlsyndication/html/default.stm)

DevX (http://www.devx.com/DevX/Article/16190)

LiveJournal Syndicated Feeds (http://www.livejournal.com/syn/list.bml)

United States Department of Defense (http://www.dod.gov/news/rss/)

WebReference.com (http://www.webreference.com/services/news/)

For a more exhaustive list, go to the RSS Compendium (http://allrss.com/rssfeeds.html)

                        IBM’s RSS feed on weather

 

 

 

 

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Other web technologies

ASPN

Resource for programmers in PERL, PHP, Python, etc. Major site.

 

WDVL: Table of Contents on Web Programming

Tutorial on server-side programming and sending info from HTML forms. Excellent intro.

WDVL: Request Headers

What's in an http header

 

 

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CGI -see also Perl folder

What is CGI?
             Elementary introduction

CGI Scripts - Writing and Using CGI

CGI tutorial

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI)

What is CGI?

Web Development Primer
             Elementary introduction to the technologies you find server-side (ASP, Perl, PHP etc.)

Using Forms and CGI

And a sample PERL script to parse the data and snd a thank you

Installing a Guestbook

HTML Forms Tutorial - Method, Mailto Forms, and Multiple Pages

GET - About Perl & PHP Glossary

POST - About Perl & PHP Glossary

Reading CGI Data From Perl Scripts

Using GET and POST methods with Perl scripts

Decoding CGI form data in Perl scripts

Free CGIs

About.com: http://www.cgi-resources.com/

Links to very many CGI, PERL and CGI scripts

Decoding CGI form data in Perl scripts

CGI Tutorials

Very well written tutorials, but maybe dated.

About.com: http://webreview.com/wr/pub/98/01/16/style/index.html

Finding good CGI scripts

WDVL: What the heck is server-side scripting anyway?

WDVL: Server-side Scripting

Excellent introduction to what CGI is and why it's needed.

WDVL: Table of Contents

Excellent intro. tutorial on serve-side scripting. The Table Of Contents.

WDVL: The GET Method

How GET assembles a request, so the HTTP request can be isolated and CGI can isolate the search parameters and their values

WDVL: Problems With the GET Method

WDVL: Request Headers

What's in an http header

WDVL: Sending Text to the Web Browser

The content-type line

.com/Authoring/Scripting/Tutorial/post.html" id="rdf:#$G0xNY3" last_modified=1087409618 add_date=1087409596 last_charset=ISO-8859-1>WDVL: The <Form> Tag

Specifying POST and to what CGI script

WDVL: File Upload Widget

What happens when you click on "submit"

WDVL: VL-WWW: CGI

Links to CGI scripts - probably f or purchase

Form validation-Goodies to Go! Newsletter #290

Validating a form before sending it to a cgi script-mainly to be sure all fields are filled in.

WDVL: VL-WWW: CGI

Library of CGI scripts

Reminder on how to change permissions on UNIX/LINUX  (chmod)

            Tutorial on chmod, in case you’ve forgotten

Library of Regular Expressions

Why learn  CGI?

            From the people (O’Reilly) who publish a book on the subject- includes kind words about their own (excellent) book
CGI-LIB.pl homepage
             Also directly accesible at Berkely
             Includes documentation, source files, examples, etc.

Tutorial on regular expressions

 

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Perl - see also CGI folder

                     

ActivePerl  (free )

ActiveState - ActiveState products open source programming languages tools

Download site for ActivePerl

ActivePerl User Guide

In table of contents, look for "Getting Started" to see how run example.pl Also open it in Notepad

ActivePerl Help - Online Docs : Getting Started

ActivePerl getting started

ActivePerl Help - Online Docs : ActivePerl FAQ

                                            ActivePerl FAQs

 

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PERL Documentation, Tutorials and Resources

Perl.com: The Source for Perl -- perl development, perl conferences

Articles etc for serious PERL programmers from the O'Reilly book folk

CPAN

Where to find MODULES to add many useful functions to your PERL -e.g. the standard module, oraperl (for Oracle databases) etc.

Installing CPAN Modules

About.com’s info on building and installing perl modules

Google groups on Perl

This site includes several very useful groups (se links in upper left)  – one for Perl beginners, another on Perl modules, and another for miscellaneous Perl questions.  Can not be recommended enough.  Search for key words in the Perl beginners group, for example, and then follow the whole thread (link in the upper right).      

Perldoc.com - Perl Documentation

Site for documentation or core Perl

HotScripts
             Articles on scripts for many languages and technologies - Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript, XML
ASPN

Resource for programmers in PERL, PHP, Python, etc. Major site.

ActiveState -

Build a custom installation of Perl and check system requirements - see warning on RedHat Linux v8

Regular Expressions

Fast and dirty reminder about regular expressions

Picking up Perl

            A free tutorial

http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/primers/perl/

PERL primer

Parsing XML documents with Perl's XML::Simple

PERL module which has an XML parser (written in PERL)

learn.perl.org: The site for people learning Perl.

Good listing of current books at all levels

Perl Intro - from HTML Goodies
Introduction to Perl

Quick tutorial

Google Help Group on Perl etc
Beginners Group on Perl in Google
             Excellent resource

Everything you ever wanted to know about perl's module cgi.pm
             From Lincoln Stein, who wrote the cgi module
Fetching parameters in Perl
             or try

Perl and MySQL

Tutorial on Regular Expressions in Perl

             Looks very complete.  From PerlDoc

Documentation on Regular Expressions in Perl

           Goes with the above tutorial.
Perl libraries for www interactions - e.g. HTTP etc

Scripts for Perl and RSS

           Also Perl tutorials

           This is the Mother of Perl site – some quite advanced

 

 

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Perl Examples, Scripts, Hints

Decoding CGI form data in Perl scripts

Reading CGI Data From Perl Scripts

A Perl script that reads and parses CGI data

Matt's Script Archive, Inc. :: Free Perl CGI Scripts

Links for free scripts

Open The Crypt / Joe's Free CGI Scripts From The Crypt / www.getcruising.com

More free scripts

Perl Meets Bio-informatics 

           From O’Reilly -  perhaps because they’ve published a book on this topic
Perl Scripts and Modules
             From About.com.  Not as complete as CPAN

Scripts for Perl and RSS

           Also Perl tutorials

           This is the Mother of Perl site – some quite advanced

Perl and XML

            How to embed XML in an HTML Page

 

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PHP

Implementing Patterns within PHP
PHP -Entry Point - Lesson One
             Elementary tutorial on PHP, with some info on pro's and con's; links to t0 various PHP sites

What can PHP do?

                Commentary from the PHP folks

PHP Tutorial
             From About - a start

PHP: Introduction - Manual
PHP Tutorial - from its makers
How to handle forms in PHP

Extract XML document statistics with PHP

Using PHP to extract stats about XML documents.

HTML Goodies: Free HTML, CSS, PHP tutorials and help, images, color codes and more for the web developer

PHP Tutorial

Google help group on PHP – installation etc

Zend makes PHP interpreters, etc
The main PHP site
             Home site for php, including documentation, download of php processor, and tutorial

Working with PHP datatypes

              Short tutorial

 

 

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Python

1. Whetting Your Appetite

Python tutorial

How to do regular expressions in Python

 

 

 

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And More

ASP Tutorial
    from w3schools - usually excellent introduction
ASP Tutorial
    from HTML Goodies - usually excellent intro; may be dated

Implement a flexible shopping cart with XML and ASP

DevEdge Netscape Sidebar Tabs

W3C Inks Key Web Services Language

To coordinate a series of services - WS-CDL and also about BPEL

Language may be used to describe peer-to-peer interactions

Web Services Choreography Description Language  (WS_CDL)

           Working draft of language spec from w3.org

 

 

 

Amazon Web Services

Internet Week > E-Business / Application Development > Amazon Reaches 50,000-Developer Mark With Its Web Services Program > May 24, 2004

       Amazon Web Services reaches 50,000 developers

Amazon.com : Help / AWS home page

                               Home page for Amazon Web Services

Amazon.com : Help / AWS home page / FAQ

          Amazon Web Services FAQs - including what are they etc.

Amazon.com : Help / AWS home page / Dev portal release / XSLT scratch pad

        Request Amazon's XML/XSLT Scratch Pad

Amazon.com browse notes

Amazon's XML Interface.

Amazon Web Services: A Brief Introduction Using PHP - Website Publisher..

XML.com: Amazon's Web Services and XSLT.

 

 

 

 

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       Java

             

Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition Documentation 1.3.1

Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, Installation Notes

jGRASP Home Page

CoffeeCup Effects Factory - ZDNet Downloads

Animate Java applets/ images and link them to a URL

 

 

 

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