The XML-Journal News Desk monitors the world of XML and SOA /Web services to present IT professionals with updates on technology advances and business trends, as well as new products and standards.
Nexaweb Technologies,
Inc., provider of the
leading standards-based
platform for building and
deploying Enterprise Web
2.0 (EW2.0) applications,
and BlueNote Networks,
the leading provider of
Business Communications
Platforms for delivering
real-time interactive
communications as servi
DataDirect Technologies
has released version 3.0
of the DataDirect XQuery
product, an XQuery
processor that enables
software developers to
access and query XML,
relational data, SOAP
messages, EDI messages,
legacy data, or a
combination of data
sources and provides full
update support
Nexaweb® Technologies,
Inc., provider ofthe
leading standards-based
platform for building and
deploying EnterpriseWeb
2.0 (EW2.0) applications,
today announced that a
new, independentresearch
report by ZapThink
discusses Nexaweb's
Enterprise Web 2.0
Platformand its ability
to enable us
Layer 7 Technologies
announced the opening of
its new U.S. federal
office in Washington, DC.
The office will support
the government's growing
need for XML appliances
and gateway software for
Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) and
Web Oriented
Architectures (WOA),
including SOAP, POX,
This article introduces a
new open source project -
Weblets - which can be
found on the java.net
website (http://weblets.d
ev.java.net). The goal of
this open source project
is to provide JSF
component writers with a
facility that can serve
resource files out of a
Java archive (JAR), ra
VMware, Inc., the global
leader in software for
industry-standard
virtualized desktops and
servers, today announced
the general availability
of VMware Workstation 6,
the sixth generation of
its desktop
virtualization software
product. VMware
Workstation 6 delivers
groundbreaking advanc
Software AG announced the
availability of the SOA
Value Assessment, a
unique tool that helps
CIOs identify the
specific value of an SOA
for their organization.
Software AG commissioned
Forrester Consulting to
develop this innovative
model so organizations
can analyze where SOA can
offe
Representatives of Active
Endpoints, AmberPoint,
BEA Systems, BMC
Software, CA, Forum
Systems, HP, IBM, IONA,
Novell, Microsoft,
Progress Software, Red
Hat, SOA Software, TIBCO,
VeriSign, webMethods, and
others make up the OASIS
WS-Federation Technical
Committee. Participation
remains
Sybase, Inc. , a leading
provider of enterprise
infrastructure and mobile
software, today reported
financial results for the
first quarter ended March
31, 2007.
Cape Clear Software, the
Enterprise Service Bus
(ESB) Platform leader,
announced the general
availability of Cape
Clear 7, which is
designed to meet the
challenging reliability,
scalability, and
performance requirements
of the rapidly-growing
On-Demand Integration
market. In developmen
As more companies turn to
XML for the exchange of
mission-critical data
with trading partners, to
conduct e-commerce and to
ease data aggregation and
Service-Oriented
Architectures (SOA)
integration projects,
they are seeking tools to
easily convert legacy
data formats into XML and
bac
DataMirror, a provider of
real-time data
integration and data
protection solutions, now
provides real-time
end-to-end integration
between databases and
messaging infrastructure.
Transformation Server/ES
(Event Server) provides
support for
bi-directional data
integration by sourcing
lar
LANDesk Software, a
leading provider of
systems, security, and
process management
solutions for desktops,
servers and mobile
devices across the
enterprise, today
announced an OEM
relationship with
Thinstall, a leading
application
virtualization solution
provider. The two
companies hav
Roy Schulte, VP at
Gartner and its research
team leader for
Application Integration
and Middleware, discusses
trends and practices for
SOA in this brand-new
webinar presented by
MetaMatrix. In
particular, Schulte
underlines the important
role being played by Data
Services.
Egenera, Inc., the data
center
virtualizationcompany,
today announced that GXS,
a leading provider
ofbusiness-to-business
(B2B) e-commerce
solutions, has deployed
theEgenera® BladeFrame®
system to support the
newly launched GXS
TradingGrid® Ultra
infrastructure. GXS
Trading Grid facil
Scalent Systems, the
leading provider ofserver
infrastructure
repurposing software for
large enterprise
datacenters, announced
that Kevin Epstein has
joined its executive
teamas vice president of
marketing. Kevin will
lead corporate branding
and marketing program
efforts for Scalent. H
Questra Corporation, the
leader in Intelligent
Device Management (IDM),
has announced that the
Questra IDM Application
Suite(TM) version 5.2s,
the first IDM solution to
be developed in
compliance with
industry-standard
Enterprise
Service-Oriented
Architecture (Enterprise
SOA), is gener
Security has the inherent
nature of spanning many
different layers of a Web
Services system. Web
Services vulnerabilities
can be present in the
operating system, the
network, the database,
the Web server, the
application server, the
XML parser, the Web
Services implementation
stack, th
Hifn(TM), the power
behind network and
information security, and
FalconStor Software,
Inc., the market leader
in disk-based data
protection solutions,
announced today the
integration of Hifn's
Express DR 1000 storage
reduction solution with
FalconStor's VirtualTape
Library based on the
At Storage Networking
World, VMware, Inc., the
global leader in software
for industry- standard
virtualized desktops and
servers, today announced
that it is expanding its
hardware certification
program to accommodate
the numerous vendors
interested in certifying
their I/O devices, serv
EMC Corporation , the
world leader in
information
infrastructure solutions,
today announced the
newest versions of its
e-mail and file system
archiving software to
further simplify
management of crucial
electronically stored
information (ESI) to meet
internal and external
governance re
A couple of weeks ago I
stopped by at our
publisher's offices
(SYS-CON Media) and they
showed me our Flex book
with the correct cover,
but all pages were blank.
Yesterday, I've got an
email from them with the
words, 'Yakov your book
is ready, stop by and
pick it up'. The guys
from prod
Virtualization Conference
& Expo is the leading
event covering the
booming market of
Virtualization for the
enterprise, with experts
on server, storage,
application and desktop
technologies. The
conference will contain
multiple sessions on how
to improve application
efficiency and lowe
'Sometimes we spend more
time arguing about IT
trends than actually
using them,' says
SOAWorld 2007 speaker
John Evdemon, a Microsoft
architect. 'In 2007, the
tools and specifications
we need for
enterprise-strength,
loosely-coupled solutions
have finally arrived its
time to roll up ou
Datalink , an independent
information storage
architect, announced
today that Rob Beyer has
been named vice president
of field operations.
Beyer will oversee the
company's sales, customer
support, and professional
services operations in 21
locations across the
United States.
Crosscheck Networks,
Inc., the leading
provider of Services
Oriented Architecture
(SOA) testing products
today announced that it
has been selected to
conduct a full-day
training program, The Art
and Science of SOA
Testing, at STAREAST 2007
on Tuesday, May 15, 2007.
Trivera Technologies
provides premier
technical education,
mentoring and courseware
development and licensing
services for developers,
managers and engineers of
all skill levels. Trivera
has the unique strength,
focus, and depth of
talent needed to help our
clients build the
technology
Nexaweb® Technologies,
Inc., provider ofthe
leading standards-based
platform for building and
deploying Enterprise Web
2.0 (EW2.0) applications,
today announced that a
new, independent research
report by Aberdeen Group
examines how
organizations can
accelerate business
change and 'futu
Office Open XML (OOXML),
Microsoft's answer to the
upstart open source Open
Document Format (ODF),
has passed to the
nextOffice Open XML
(OOXML), Microsoft's
answer to the upstart
open source Open Document
Format (ODF), has passed
to the next hurdle on its
way to fast-track ISO
standar
The natural visualization
of a business process is
of boxes and arrows
arranged in a tree-like
formation. A large
process with numerous
conditional paths forms a
rather expansive tree
that can't fir on a
computer screen or
printed page. If the
process has loops, these
are often represe
Software AG (TecDAX, ISIN
DE 0003304002 / SOW),
Europe's largest systems
software and
Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA)
provider, and webMethods,
Inc. , a leading business
integration and
optimization software
company, today announced
that they have entered
into a definitive
agreemen
Stratus Technologies,
Inc. announced today its
membership in the VMware
Community Source program,
which enables Stratus to
collaborate on highly
available and reliable
virtualization solutions.
The program provides
Stratus and other vendors
with the opportunity to
work with VMware on V
Mindreef SOAPscope Server
is the industry's first
and only collaborative
platform for shared,
on-demand access to SOA
quality expertise and
assets. Designed for
agile SOA development
environments, Mindreef
SOAPscope Server provides
SOA developers, QA teams
and service consumers
with ea
A Google News Search on
'SOA' returns roughly
2,488 active SOA and Web
Services news stories
covering the time frame
of the past 30 days, out
of which only two of them
reference Polarlake, the
SOA vendor. The company
issued only one press
release (news) this year
and the last news hear
The Open SOA
Collaboration, a group of
18 vendors, is going to
turn its Service
Component Architecture
(SCA) and Service Data
Objects (SDO)
specification over to
OASIS to standardize the
widgetry. The SCA spec is
supposed to simplify
services building and the
SDO is supposed to enable
Postini, a global leader
in on-demand
communications security
and compliance solutions
for email, instant
messaging and the web,
today announced new
additions and
enhancements to its
integrated suite of
Software as a Service
solutions. Postini's
solutions are designed to
protect busine
SCA is a powerful and
simple business level
programming model that
extends prior approaches
to be able to implement
services based solutions.
SCA defines how services
can be described,
assembled, and deployed
in a meta-data driven
fashion, independent of
an implementation
language and
Gateway, Inc. today
announced that its new
E-9722R server won the
Best of FOSE 2007 Award
for the Enterprise
Hardware category. We're
thrilled to be honored
with a Best of FOSE Award
for our new 3U rack
server,' said Tim
Diefenthaler, Gateway
senior director,
professional product
manag
JustSystems, Inc., a
global enterprise
software company, has
announced three important
additions to its Partner
Program. The 4-tier
program, categorized into
Strategic Partner,
Premier Certified,
Certified and Associate
designations, was created
earlier this year to
reflect the company
Well, OK, AJAX does stand
for 'Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML'! But
it has really come to
mean in-place browser
updates. So in keeping
with that usage,
Desiderata Software is
pleased to introduce a
'No JavaScript, just
Java' version of AJAX.
Jaxcent is a Java API for
Internet Explor
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This article introduces a
new open source project -
Weblets - which can be
found on the java.net
website (http://weblets.d
ev.java.net). The goal of
this open source project
is to provide JSF
component writers with a
facility that can serve
resource files out of a
Java archive (JAR), ra
Roy Schulte, VP at
Gartner and its research
team leader for
Application Integration
and Middleware, discusses
trends and practices for
SOA in this brand-new
webinar presented by
MetaMatrix. In
particular, Schulte
underlines the important
role being played by Data
Services. 
Security has the inherent
nature of spanning many
different layers of a Web
Services system. Web
Services vulnerabilities
can be present in the
operating system, the
network, the database,
the Web server, the
application server, the
XML parser, the Web
Services implementation
stack, th
A couple of weeks ago I
stopped by at our
publisher's offices
(SYS-CON Media) and they
showed me our Flex book
with the correct cover,
but all pages were blank.
Yesterday, I've got an
email from them with the
words, 'Yakov your book
is ready, stop by and
pick it up'. The guys
from prod
Virtualization Conference
& Expo is the leading
event covering the
booming market of
Virtualization for the
enterprise, with experts
on server, storage,
application and desktop
technologies. The
conference will contain
multiple sessions on how
to improve application
efficiency and lowe
Trivera Technologies
provides premier
technical education,
mentoring and courseware
development and licensing
services for developers,
managers and engineers of
all skill levels. Trivera
has the unique strength,
focus, and depth of
talent needed to help our
clients build the
technology 
The natural visualization
of a business process is
of boxes and arrows
arranged in a tree-like
formation. A large
process with numerous
conditional paths forms a
rather expansive tree
that can't fir on a
computer screen or
printed page. If the
process has loops, these
are often represe
SCA is a powerful and
simple business level
programming model that
extends prior approaches
to be able to implement
services based solutions.
SCA defines how services
can be described,
assembled, and deployed
in a meta-data driven
fashion, independent of
an implementation
language and 
