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SOAP vs. REST comparison table Although REST is very popular these days, SOAP still has its place in the world of web services. To help you choose between them, here’s a comparison table of SOAP and REST, that highlights the main differences between the two API styles:   SOAP REST Meaning Simple Object Access Protocol Representational State Transfer Design Standardized protocol with pre-defined rules to follow. Architectural style with loose guidelines and recommendations. Approach Function-driven (data available as services, e.g.: “getUser”) Data-driven (data available as resources, e.g. “user”). Statefulness Stateless by default, but it’s possible to make a SOAP API stateful. Stateless (no server-side sessions). Caching API calls cannot be cached. API calls can be cached. Security WS-Security with SSL support. Built-in ACID compliance. Supports HTTPS and SSL. Performance Requires more bandwidth and computing power. Requires fewer resources. Message format Only XML. Plai

This xslt can remove the tailing whitespaces in xml. <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">   <xsl:template match="/">     <xsl:apply-templates />   </xsl:template>   <xsl:template match="*">     <xsl:copy>       <xsl:for-each select="@*">         <xsl:attribute name="{name()}">           <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/>         </xsl:attribute>       </xsl:for-each>       <xsl:apply-templates/>     </xsl:copy>   </xsl:template>   <xsl:template match="text()">     <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/>   </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

Here are the some of OSB custom xquery function that came across: 1.        mmddyyyy  to date  conversion: declare function ns1:mmddyyyy-to-date   ( $dateString as xs:string? )  as xs:date? {    if (empty($dateString))     then ()    else      xs:date(concat(substring($dateString,7,4),'-',             substring($dateString,1,2),'-',             substring($dateString,4,2)))  } ; 2.        day of week:  declare function ns1:day-of-week   ( $date as xs:date? )  as xs:integer? {   if (empty($date))   then ()   else xs:integer(($date - xs:date('1901-01-06'))           div xs:dayTimeDuration('P1D')) mod 7  } ; 3.        day of week name:  declare function ns1:day-of-week-name   ( $date as xs:date? )  as xs:string? {    ('Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday',     'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday')       [ns1:day-of-week($date) + 1]  } ;

NAMESPACES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ xml=http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace fn=http://www.w3.org/2004/07/xpath-functions op=http://www.w3.org/2004/07/xpath-operators err=http://www.w3.org/2004/07/xqt-errors fn-bea=http://www.bea.com/xquery/xquery-functions op-bea=http://www.bea.com/xquery/xquery-operators dt-bea=http://www.bea.com/xquery/xquery-datatypes var-bea=http://www.bea.com/xquery/xquery-variables xf-aug02=http://www.w3.org/2002/08/xquery-function op-aug02=http://www.w3.org/2002/08/xquery-operators xs=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema xdt=http://www.w3.org/2004/07/xpath-datatypes local=http://www.w3.org/2004/07/xquery-local-functions declare default function namespace "http://www.w3.org/2004/07/xpath-functions XQUERY FUNCTIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ fn:node-name($arg as node()?) as xs:QName? fn:

1.Why Oracle Service Bus 11g ? What are the Key Benefits and Advantages? 1. Service Virtualization :  A core principle of SOA is to ensure that any service consumer can access any service provider - and from any platform. This has been considered as key principle in OSB and it provides robust way of Vitalizing the Service. It's a great value add in SOA Architecture. 2. Loose Coupling :  OSB provides loose coupling by mediating between Service provided and Consumer. Without mediation Service consumer and provider will create dependency to each other. A change in single side provider/consumer will lead to the change dependent consumer/provider respectively. OSB bridges the gap of transport, message format, security technology etc. 3. Location Transparency :  It's a strategy to hide physical location of actual physical location of service endpoints from the Service Consumer. All Service consumers should know only single logical machine & port name for each service. This