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.

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.

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...

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 t...

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 mana...

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? W...