AirTran Airways last week began displaying seat maps through Sabre's Extensible Markup Language interface, and plans to add additional booking options through the global distribution system early next ...

Newtrade Technologies has now developed and implemented XML interfaces that conform to the OpenTravel Alliance (OTA) specifications. As an active OTA member, Newtrade contributed to the refinement of ...

XML interfaces to Web services have been in use for several years. Many languages support XML-RPC and are now starting to support its successor, SOAP. Savvy Web developers are already using XML to ...

Customers say they want them, vendors are scrambling to provide them, and opinions vary as to how to set them up correctly. They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that ...

One of the basic operational requirements for a call center is the integration of multiple back-office systems and applications. For example, agents need access to a customer relationship management ...

XML is a popular data format for several reasons: it is human readable, self-describing, and portable. Unfortunately, many Java-based XML parsers are very large; for example, Sun Microsystems’ ...

Web services management is coming of age. Until recently, the enterprise was primarily concerned about Web services development and deployment scenarios. Now, networking and systems management vendors ...