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Imagine you have a WebService that defines in its WSDL file the following input structure: <xsd:element name="Z_CATSIF_UPDATE_HOURS> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:all> […] <xsd:element name="DATA"> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="item" type="ZCO_CATSIF_COMM" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" /> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> <xsd:complexType name="ZCO_CATSIF_COMM"> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="ELEM1" minOccurs="0"> <xsd:simpleType> <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string"> <xsd:maxLength value="6" /> </xsd:restriction> </xsd:simpleType> </xsd:element> […] </xsd:sequence> </xsd:ComplexType> <wsdl:message name="rfc.Z_CATSIF_UPDATE_HOURS.Input">…

You may have heard about Agile Programming, eXtreme Programming and the like. I want to introduce to you Scrum, which is „an agile, lightweight process that can be used to manage and control software and product development using iterative, incremental practices.“. Not only big companies are using this toolset, but also some smaller ones, including…

I’m currently building an application that sits on top of SAP XI (Netweaver Infrastructure) and SAP PS/CATS for delivering project hours through a web application in an Intranet. The gateway to SAP XI are SOAP requests (of course with PHP5). During the nature of SOAP requests to SAP, a request may take 1 to 3…

Thanks to hartmut for pointing to this: MySQL AB acquired Netfrastructure Inc. Jim Starkey, one of the founders of Netfrastructure Inc., is now working full-time for MySQL AB. Well, who’s Jim Starkey? Jim Starkey, the original creator of InterBase which became Firebird, just made it publicly known that he now works for MySQL AB. More…

While reading the tecosystems blog, I stumbled over Steven’s entry „The Oracle M&A Q&A: JBoss, Sleepycat and Zend“. It seems that at least Oracle’s interest in Zend is true: „[…] and in one panel yesterday Zend’s Doron Gerstel did little to deny the Oracle interest“. Also, it seems that JBoss has been acquired for $485…

After Zend announced to enter the Eclipse Foundation one expected Zend to give up their own Zend Studio and integrate it with the Eclipse Framework. A small update in a recent blog posting from Sebastian gives a few details about Zend’s plans. According to this proposal Zend is working, together with IBM, on an Eclipse-based…

php|tek, the next conference from the php|arch guys around Marco Tabini who already organized the php|cruise and php|tropics conferences, will be from April 26th to 28th at Orlando, Florida. As you can read on the recently published schedule I’ll hold two talks. The first talk will be about PHP on the command line, showing PHP’s…

Mit der neuen Ausgabe des PHP Magazins, die am heutigen Tag an den Kiosken erscheint, beleuchten wir den Einsatz der neuen ext/mysqli Extension in PHP. Kai Voigt, Trainer und Consultant bei MySQL, führt Sie auf sechs Seiten durch die neue Extension, die ab PHP 5 zur Verfügung steht und speziell auch die neuen Features von…

Congratulations to Masoud and his whole team at S&S Media, the publishing house that’s very active in the IT area and also supports PHP through: PHP Magazin (German edition – btw, the current issue has been published today and we have a lot of good articles in there, like the cover stories about ext/mysqli and…