SAML, developed by the Security Services Technical Committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlement, and attribute information. As its name suggests, SAML allows business entities to make assertions regarding the identity, attributes, and entitlements of a subject (an entity that is often a human user) to other entities, such as a partner company or another enterprise application.
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eXtc Web Developer (EWD) is a very high productivity, enterprise-grade platform for developing web applications. It includes an advanced but extremely easy to use Ajax Framework, allowing sophisticated, modern web applications to be built almost as quickly and simply as static web pages. EWD has been designed to be technology-independent, and is potentially capable of working with any web application front-end environment (eg PHP, Java Server Pages, ASP.Net), any scripting language and any database.
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18 Sep
Posted by jj as Development, Dotnet
This introduction serves as a high-level overview of the different test approaches and tools, including Java Explorer, Java Framework, .NET Explorer, and .NET Framework that are offered by SilkPerformer SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Edition
SilkPerformer .NET Explorer, which was developed using .NET, allows you to test Web Services, .NET Remoting objects, and other GUI-less .NET objects. .NET Explorer allows you to define and execute complete test scenarios with different test cases without requiring manual programming—everything is done visually via point and click operations. Test scripts are visual and easy to understand—even for staff members who aren’t familiar with .NET programming languages.
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Information and communication technologies continue to pervade our lives in various aspects which include health, education, entertainment and ecommerce. People need to be able to trust computer systems as the dependence on them increases. The Trustworthy Computing vision (CRA, 2003) refers to computer systems that are intuitive, controllable, reliable and predictable and that ensure availability and security. Secure cod- ing is not trivial and poor code security management may leave the developed web application vulnerable to attack or turn the application into a launch pad for serious attacks.
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Google Earth™ is Google’s satellite imagery-based mapping product that combines global coverage of imagery with new navigational features including integrated Google search capabilities. It is based on technology from Keyhole, a company acquired by Google in October 2004. Google Earth is a broadband mapping tool that enables users to fly from space to street level views to find geographic information, and to explore places around the world.
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Google Desktop is a free downloadable application that offers an easy way to search for information on your computer, across your personal computer network and from the web. It includes full text search over your primary computer’s email, files, music, photos, chats and web pages you’ve viewed. By making your computer searchable, Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize it. Searching your computer is now as easy as searching the web with Google.
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This guide provides an overview of Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) along with information on how to use YQL to retrieve data from Yahoo! Social Directory, MyBlogLog, and data from other Yahoo! Web services. YQL also allows you to retrieve data from external sources such as the New York Times as well as feeds such as RSS and Atom. This guide is intended for software developers who are familiar with SQL, MySQL, or Yahoo! Pipes.
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This guide explains how to use the eBay File Exchange listing tool to post product listings to the eBay web site. This guide was designed to be used with one of the standard templates available on the File Exchange Select Template web page.
What is File Exchange?
This section provides a general overview of File Exchange, and then explains template structure and use.
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