Blog Topics Summary

Overview of Web Technologies
- What is your vision on Web 3.0?
- What are the key technologies that will make it happen?

Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- What is “session hijacking”? What are its security threats?
- How can web developers avoid it?

XML Syntax
- What is YAML? What are its advantages over XML?
- Give examples on how an XML document can be represented by a YAML document.

SAX and DOM
- What is StAX?
- What is its advantages over SAX and DOM?

XPath

XSLT
- What is XSL-FO?
- How is it related to XSLT?
Give examples to help explain your answers.

XML Schema
- What are ID, IDREF, and IDREFS simple types in XSD?
- How is xs:uniqueused to constrain values?
- Give examples to explain the usage of these XSD constructs.

HTML
- Why is HTML 5 a threat to Adobe Flash?
- Will HTML 5 kill Flash? What is your view?

Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- Compare SOAP-based Web Services and RESTfulWeb Services.

SOAP and WSDL
- How SOAP can be extended with data encryption and signature to ensure communication security?

Cloud Computing
- How cloud computing is related to SOA?
- Why Web Services standards are important to adoption of cloud computing?

Orchestration and Choreography
- What are the difficulties in the real world in composing existing web services into new web services?
- How can these difficulties be lessened?

Introduction to Web 2.0
- What are the Long Tail Effect and Streisand Effect?
- How are they related to Web 2.0?
- Give real-life examples how they take place in Web 2.0 age.