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IBM's Web Service Definition

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:13:00 GMT

IBM's Definition of Web Service: (A Web Service is a Web Application)

Web services are a new breed of Web application. They are self-contained, self-describing, modular applications that can be published, located, and invoked across the Web. Web services perform functions, which can be anything from simple requests to complicated business processes...Once a Web service is deployed, other applications (and other Web services) can discover and invoke the deployed service.

XmlDocument to Byte[]

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:01:00 GMT

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter xw = new XmlTextWriter(sw);
                        
// Save Xml Document to Text Writter.
doc.WriteTo(xw);
System.Text.ASCIIEncoding encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
                        
// Convert Xml Document To Byte Array.
byte[] docAsBytes = encoding.GetBytes(sw.ToString());

RSS Event Logs

dbottjer — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:21:00 GMT

I saw [RSSEventLogs] on Code Project and thought it was a really cool idea. The author has created a solution for exposing a server's event log via an RSS Feed. As the author mentions it is important to consider security. I really like this concept b/c so much information seems to gets trapped within the logs of a server. Sure we mean to login and review this information but when do we get the chance. By exposing this information via RSS people that need to review it can easily do so via an RSS Agregator.