Articles by Jim Gabriel

Best Practices in Integrating Data Models for SOA

Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

This article describes how an essential precursor to any SOA implementation is a data modeling exercise that integrates all underlying data models, focusing more on the business requirements than on system- and application-specific requirements.

Metadata Evolution Management in Your SOA

Tue, 04 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST

This article describes the increasing importance of metadata in today's service-oriented application landscape, and the consequent fragility inherent in architectures when faced with change.

Development Tools for XML Applications

Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:00:00 EST

XML is object without source. There can be no development tools for XML until we find a way of creating source code. 'There's no such thing as an XML application.' A strong statement, perhaps, but what do we mean when we talk about an XML application? Is a publishing system that relies on XML to do its work an XML application? Can we apply the term to a B2B marketplace where all the processes in a transaction can be defined by DTDs and all data flowing around the system is in XML?

Content Management Part 2

Tue, 10 Jul 2001 00:00:00 EDT

The golden rule of a content management system is this: the day you take it to production is the day you start work on the next version of the system. Content contributors will submit change requests for the document structures and input formats, publishers will ask for more metadata to enable more sophisticated delivery of content, and editors will ask for better workflow.

Content Management

Sun, 03 Jun 2001 00:00:00 EDT

A META Group analyst forecasts that 'everybody will have a content problem, if not today, then tomorrow.' This forecast is echoed by scores of analysts from Jupiter to WestLB Panmure: e-business and corporate publishing are fundamentally not possible without sophisticated content management. When you consider that most analysts regard anything from a pricelist to a fax as content that can (and should) be managed in a corporation, it's not difficult to see the enormity of the content management problem facing us.

Can you Avoid Learning XML

Mon, 16 Oct 2000 00:00:00 EDT

By 2005 XML and its derivatives will be fundamentally redefining the process and technology by which literally every business transaction is conducted. All major software and hardware players in the market are claiming to support XML. But do you (or your colleagues) need to learn it? Will your business survive if you don't?