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Whatever happened to the
days when a new college
grad could be sent to a
two-week developer's
course and come back
proficient enough to
develop and deploy small
departmental
applications? J2EE -
That's what happened!
Layer 7 Technologies and
SafeNet have announced
the availability of a
military grade XML
Firewall for high
security intelligence,
military, and financial
applications.
This year it looks
certain that a new
participation record will
be set, more than 16,000
votes have already been
recorded, as more than
20,000 SYS-CON Media
readers are estimated to
cast their votes in this
year's Readers' Choice
Awards.
ILOG has announced that
ILOG JRules, an offering
in ILOG's Business Rule
Management System (BRMS)
product line, has earned
certification from the
Association for
Cooperative Operations
Research and Development
(ACORD) for meeting
ACORD's XML for Life
standards.
Prior to the year 2000,
business was a world in
love with office spaces
and corporate travel. We
traveled to work (the
office) every day. We
traveled away from the
office for customer
meetings, for internal
meetings, for
conferences, for awards
ceremonies. We traveled
because we could
Since its inception XML
has at times been seen as
the cure-all for every
problem related to Web
applications and
integration projects.
However, poorly written
XML can either slow down
an integration project,
or worse, cause the
integration project to
collapse.
With the evolution of
XML, the XSL standard
also became very popular
for transforming XML data
to XML, text, PDF, etc.
However there are some
limitations to the XSLT
transformation. Today's
XSLT processors rely on
holding input data in
memory as a DOM tree
while the transformation
is t
Layer 7 Technologies has
introduced the first
64-bit Web services
Gateway with ASIC-based
XML security
acceleration, designed
for high-volume
transaction environments
and emerging Enterprise
Service Buses.
Along with XOS 4.3,
Reactivity has introduced
what it calls the
industry's first
documented and supported
secure software
development kit (SDK)
program designed to help
enterprise developers,
system integrators and
independent software
vendors create secure
extensions to
Reactivity's X
Corporations have a
tremendous amount of
stored information. On
top of this, new
information is being
created every day. A
small but critical
portion of this
information is stored in
highly structured and
well-defined formats in
relational databases.
However, most of the
information is
The XAMJ project has
announced the release of
Warrior 0.93.2 a platform
for deployment of XAMJ
applications. According
to the team, 'This
release adds a Warrior
Platform API, which
allows Warrior to be
called as an XML UI
Framework without the
need to install it as a
browser/platform.
Omnify Software, a
leading provider of
product lifecycle
management (PLM) software
for mid-market
electronic, medical,
mechanical, and defense
OEMs, announced the
newest version of its
award-winning PLM
product. Omnify 3.0
enhances the performance
and capabilities of the
PLM solution
Stylus Studio 6 XML
Enterprise is the only
XML IDE to provide
comprehensive and
fully-integrated XML
tools support for
Microsoft System.XML 1.x,
MSXML 3.0 and MSXML 4.0 -
all popular Microsoft XML
processing components
that are used by
virtually all Microsoft
XML developers.
With its channel
expansion and new
targeted program,
DataPower is extending
its share of the global
XML and Web services
infrastructure market,
for which IDC expects
worldwide spending in
support of Web
services-based projects
to reach $11 billion by
2008.
XML Development - the
term can mean many
different things given
the technologies
currently available. At
the center of it all is
XML Schemas, DTDs and
instance documents.
Building out from the
base there's XSL, Web
Services and XQuery just
to name a few. Because of
this, it's not uncom
Altova, creator of XMLSpy
and other leading XML,
data management, UML, and
Web services tools, has
introduced version 2006
of its award-winning line
of XML applications.
Altova software version
2006 (v2006) delivers
several significant
upgrades and enhancements
to the company's existin
'Altova developers are
missing out big time, and
it just makes sense for
us to educate the market
about their options when
it comes to XML tools and
components,' said Jerry
King, Stylus Studio's
General Manager, as he
announced a program
offering a free upgrade
to Stylus Studio 6 XML E
Oneupweb, the trusted
leader in search engine
optimization and
marketing, announced the
release of its new tool
LiveWire XML that helps
get dynamic and other
hard-to-index webpages
listed in Google,
ensuring more website
visibility.
Highly scalable
implementations of
service-oriented
architectures (SOAs)
always include heavy
doses of caching. A
guided tour through the
SOA tiers, describing the
caching and XML
acceleration techniques
employed along the way,
provides the SOA
enterprise architect with
an awareness of
'With more and more
market leading
organizations and service
providers deploying XML
and Web services it is
clear that the
Service-Oriented
Enterprise has arrived,'
said Joel Silberman, vice
president of ISV
partnerships and business
development at Crossbeam
Systems, as it was
announce
Much time, energy, and
commitment are required
to develop and sell
successful software
products and Web-based
services. Most products
of this type are
initially developed for a
specific language and
locale (e.g., U.S.
English). To maximize
return on investment,
products can be customiz
A new XQuery tutorial
from StylusStudio is
designed for anyone who
wants to know what XQuery
is but doesn't have the
time to find out, the
company says. The new
tutorial is written by
XML industry guru, Dr.
Michael Kay, founder of
Saxonica, the producer of
the Saxon XQuery and XSLT
pro
'After Katrina many
friends and family
members have been
separated and left with
no clear way to find each
other,' notes Rebecca
McKinnon. 'Hundreds of
internet web sites are
gathering hundreds, and
probably thousands, of
entries about missing
persons or persons who
want to let others
'We encourage people in
the U.S. and everywhere
to give with their
hearts, reach out to
these victims, and donate
what they can to the
relief efforts,' said
Michael and Susan Dell,
co-founders of the
Michael & Susan Dell
Foundation, as they
yesterday announced a $5M
million pledge to t
'On behalf of the
employees of Cisco, we
send our deepest sympathy
and condolences to all of
those affected by
Hurricane Katrina and its
aftermath,' said Cisco
president and CEO John
Chambers as Cisco, its
employees and the Cisco
Foundation pledged to
contribute financial and
human res
Demonstrating the role
Internet technologies
(i-Technology) can play
in disaster relief and
recovery, the National
Institute for Urban
Search and Rescue (NIUSR)
has launched a web site
aimed at facilitating the
location of victims of
Hurricane Katrina. The
web site will present a
conso
Altova, creator of
XMLSpy, MapForce, and
other software
development and data
integration tools, has
announced the launch of a
new online resource that
describes how current and
emerging business
problems can be solved
using XML and other
technologies.
'Our presence in Asia
addresses a significant
enterprise Internet
application market need
created by the
limitations of today's
Web technologies,' said
Brian Murphy, SVP
worldwide sales and
services of Nexaweb
Technologies as the
company today announced
the opening of Nexaweb
Japan K.K
Using Magic Software's
iBolt, Visa Cal has
implemented the
infrastructure that links
applications in
heterogeneous
environments, a new SOA
throughout the
organization. Magic's
professional services
built the infrastructure
for implementing SOA
using iBOLT, and then
transferred the know
Sun's Solaris engineering
team was honored for
their exceptional work on
Solaris 10, which
included innovative
features such as
Predictive Self-Healing
and Solaris Dynamic
Tracing empowers users to
solve complex problems
previously unseen.
Ryman's blog can be read
at ryman.eclipsedeveloper
sjournal.com. He is the
latest i-technology
celebrity whose blog is
syndicated on SYS-CON's
branded blog-n-play
community pages next to
James Gosling, Marc
Fleury, Ben Forta, John
C. Dvorak, Alan
Williamson and others.
Executives from
ClearNova, Inc. will
champion AJAX
(Asynchronous Javascript
+ XML) in their session
at the South Florida Java
User's Group in the Miami
area on August 17. The
discussion will be led by
Steve Benfield, VP of
strategy & technology
evangelism at ClearNova.
Not for Yahoo! the slow
boat to China. Instead,
it's going to pay $1BN to
China's second-largest
Internet auctioneer,
Alibaba.com, and thereby
gain an instant foothold
in the world's
second-biggest online
market after the United
States.
'We believe the launch of
Flash Player 8 is one of
the most important
developments in rich
media design and delivery
on the Internet. And our
customers are telling us
the same thing,' said
Douglas McIntyre,
chairman, president and
CEO of On2 Technologies,
as he announced today
that On2
Containing workflow
enhancements, new
products, and feature
firsts, Macromedia
yesterday announced the
Macromedia Studio 8 suite
for web designers,
developers, video
professionals, and
graphic artists. Studio 8
enables the design,
development, and
maintainenance of
interactive online e
'Macromedia Flash Player
is the driving force
behind the Flash
Platform,' said Kevin
Lynch, chief software
architect, Macromedia, as
the company this morning
announced the
availability of a public
beta for Macromedia Flash
Player 8, the
next-generation Flash
Player client runtime.
Macromedia Fireworks 8,
unique in its ability to
support both vector and
bitmap images, was
announced this morning by
Macromedia - a
comprehensive solution
for creating and
optimizing high-quality,
lightweight graphics and
images for the web.
As companies like JetBlue
Airways begin to rely on
Web services, they face
the challenge of building
scaleable and reusable
networks. It was
announced today that
JetBlue has selected SOA
Software's Service
Manager - widely deployed
in Fortune 500 and large
global organizations - to
cre
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Whatever happened to the
days when a new college
grad could be sent to a
two-week developer's
course and come back
proficient enough to
develop and deploy small
departmental
applications? J2EE -
That's what happened!
Prior to the year 2000,
business was a world in
love with office spaces
and corporate travel. We
traveled to work (the
office) every day. We
traveled away from the
office for customer
meetings, for internal
meetings, for
conferences, for awards
ceremonies. We traveled
because we could 
Since its inception XML
has at times been seen as
the cure-all for every
problem related to Web
applications and
integration projects.
However, poorly written
XML can either slow down
an integration project,
or worse, cause the
integration project to
collapse. 
With the evolution of
XML, the XSL standard
also became very popular
for transforming XML data
to XML, text, PDF, etc.
However there are some
limitations to the XSLT
transformation. Today's
XSLT processors rely on
holding input data in
memory as a DOM tree
while the transformation
is t
Corporations have a
tremendous amount of
stored information. On
top of this, new
information is being
created every day. A
small but critical
portion of this
information is stored in
highly structured and
well-defined formats in
relational databases.
However, most of the
information is
XML Development - the
term can mean many
different things given
the technologies
currently available. At
the center of it all is
XML Schemas, DTDs and
instance documents.
Building out from the
base there's XSL, Web
Services and XQuery just
to name a few. Because of
this, it's not uncom
Highly scalable
implementations of
service-oriented
architectures (SOAs)
always include heavy
doses of caching. A
guided tour through the
SOA tiers, describing the
caching and XML
acceleration techniques
employed along the way,
provides the SOA
enterprise architect with
an awareness of
Much time, energy, and
commitment are required
to develop and sell
successful software
products and Web-based
services. Most products
of this type are
initially developed for a
specific language and
locale (e.g., U.S.
English). To maximize
return on investment,
products can be customiz
Demonstrating the role
Internet technologies
(i-Technology) can play
in disaster relief and
recovery, the National
Institute for Urban
Search and Rescue (NIUSR)
has launched a web site
aimed at facilitating the
location of victims of
Hurricane Katrina. The
web site will present a
conso 
Altova, creator of
XMLSpy, MapForce, and
other software
development and data
integration tools, has
announced the launch of a
new online resource that
describes how current and
emerging business
problems can be solved
using XML and other
technologies. 
'Our presence in Asia
addresses a significant
enterprise Internet
application market need
created by the
limitations of today's
Web technologies,' said
Brian Murphy, SVP
worldwide sales and
services of Nexaweb
Technologies as the
company today announced
the opening of Nexaweb
Japan K.K
Just nine months after
the release of Firefox
1.0, downloads of the
Firefox web browser have
hit the 80,000,000 mark.
Ryman's blog can be read
at ryman.eclipsedeveloper
sjournal.com. He is the
latest i-technology
celebrity whose blog is
syndicated on SYS-CON's
branded blog-n-play
community pages next to
James Gosling, Marc
Fleury, Ben Forta, John
C. Dvorak, Alan
Williamson and others.
Executives from
ClearNova, Inc. will
champion AJAX
(Asynchronous Javascript
+ XML) in their session
at the South Florida Java
User's Group in the Miami
area on August 17. The
discussion will be led by
Steve Benfield, VP of
strategy & technology
evangelism at ClearNova.
Not for Yahoo! the slow
boat to China. Instead,
it's going to pay $1BN to
China's second-largest
Internet auctioneer,
Alibaba.com, and thereby
gain an instant foothold
in the world's
second-biggest online
market after the United
States. 
Containing workflow
enhancements, new
products, and feature
firsts, Macromedia
yesterday announced the
Macromedia Studio 8 suite
for web designers,
developers, video
professionals, and
graphic artists. Studio 8
enables the design,
development, and
maintainenance of
interactive online e
As companies like JetBlue
Airways begin to rely on
Web services, they face
the challenge of building
scaleable and reusable
networks. It was
announced today that
JetBlue has selected SOA
Software's Service
Manager - widely deployed
in Fortune 500 and large
global organizations - to
cre 
