Marc D Anderson released a new jQuery library to work with SharePoint Web Services. The library at its alpha state, provides already 5 operations and a utility function to display cascading dropdowns. Actually the function works fine if there are less than 20 options in the dropdowns due to SharePoint behaviour, this should be fixed in future versions :

Right now, the function works only if there are fewer than 20 options in the dropdowns. As many of you know, for some reason SharePoint changes the control it uses if there are 20 or more options. We'll get that logic into the function soon, but we wanted to get this out there for folks to bang on.

Since Marc is actually looking for test swarm, you should check the latest mozilla labs TestSwarm by John Resig. Thanks to TestSwarm.com, jQuery is now being tested against 50 browsers on 9 platforms, on every commit - according to John. Pretty much insane isn't it ? There is also Selenium and JSTestDriver.

You can download jQuery library for Sharepoint Web Services from Codeplex, demo available here. Released under a MIT license by Sympraxis Consulting LLC.

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WSO2 Web Services Framework for PHP (WSO2 WSF/PHP), is an open source, enterprise grade, PHP extension for providing and consuming Web Services in PHP. WSO2 WSF/PHP is a complete solution for building and deploying Web services, and is the only PHP extension with the widest range of WS-* specification implementations :

• SOAP MTOM
• WS-Addressing
• WS-Security
• WS-SecurityPolicy
• WS-Secure Conversation
• WS-ReliableMessaging

WSO2 WSF/PHP features proven interoperability with Microsoft .NET, WSO2 WSAS (Apache Axis2/Java based Web services application server) and other J2EE implementations. The framework provide :

• REST Support
• Works with Zend core 2.5
• Portability and Platform Support
• Attachments with Web Services and Clients
• Secure Web Services and Clients
• Reliable Web Services and Clients
• WSDL Generation
• WSDL Mode
• wsdl2php script
• Data Services Solution

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New Release of Leading Transaction Management Software Makes SOA Transactions Safer and More Reliable

MECHELEN, BELGIUM--(Marketwire - May 11, 2009) - Atomikos, a leading provider of transaction management software for SOA, XTP and Open Source environments, announced today the latest release of its commercial software product, Atomikos ExtremeTransactions®. Version 3.6 of Atomikos ExtremeTransactions® introduces new and advanced web services support aimed at making transaction management in SOA environments faster, safer, and more reliable.

Strategic SOA-based business services are becoming a dominant element in business transformation, allowing businesses to flexibly respond and react quickly to changing business conditions. SOA-based transactions are defined as tasks that are composed of one or more operations or related interactions that may need to be cancelled or "rolled back" after the point of execution.

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Packt have recently released Service Oriented Architecture with Java, a new book which teaches the concepts and the implementation of using SOA with web services to design a sound architecture for business solutions.

Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software architecture where functionality is grouped around business processes and packaged as interoperable services. SOA also describes IT infrastructure which allows different applications to exchange data with one another as they participate in business processes.

Through this book, users will learn when SOA is the best choice for their web services-based applications and also to design and implement a sound architecture for successful implementation of any business solution.

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Mollom is a new initiative launched by Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, and Benjamin Schrauwen, to provide a complete solution to prevent spam and helps improve overall content quality. Mollom provide a set of features including :

• Accurate spam filtering
• Eliminate your moderation queue
• Detailed statistics
• Image and audio CAPTCHA challenges
• Content quality assessment
• and more ...

Tijs Verkoyen have written a PHP5 class to communicate with mollom's open API. Very simple and easy to use. You can find solutions for your languages also available including Java, Ruby, Python, .NET, in addition to a drupal module to integrate Mollom in your community's CMS.

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Packt is pleased to announce a new book "SOA Approach To Integration" which shows how to define SOA integration architecture, what technologies to use, and how to best integrate existing applications with modern e-business solutions.

This book focuses on the SOA approach to integration of existing (legacy) applications and newly developed solutions, using modern technologies, particularly web services, XML, ESB, and BPEL. The book shows how to define SOA for integration, what integration patterns to use, which technologies to use, and how to best integrate existing applications with modern e-business solutions.

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