'I XML'...'I XML too' It's always exciting to
come back after a
successful venture and
talk about the results.
XML-Journal hit the
newsstands in March and,
from all accounts, is a
resounding success. This
tells me two things: (1)
there's a critical need ... Apr. 12, 2000 Reads: 7,461 |
Corba & XML - Hit or
Myth? Is XML a potential
competitor to CORBA? Does
it represent CORBA's
nemesis? Or is it, on the
contrary, too lightweight
for use in distributed
systems? Much heated
debate has centered
recently on the question
of the possible
combina... Apr. 12, 2000 Reads: 5,595 |
XML and Data Interchange We've all heard the
proclamations: XML is the
language standard that
enables seamless data
interchange between
disparate applications.
First the Internet
provided the physical
connection. Now XML
completes this by
providing a comm... Apr. 12, 2000 Reads: 6,126 |
XML, RDBMS and OODBMS:
Peaceful Coexistence? In this regular column I
focus on the business
aspects of XML and
databases. This time I'm
going to consider the
relationship between
object-oriented databases
and relational databases
for data persistence and
recovery, and how thes... Apr. 12, 2000 Reads: 8,438 |
Business to Business
Integration with Trading
Partner Agreements IBM recently submitted a
specification for
defining and implementing
electronic contracts to
the Organization for the
Advancement of Structured
Information Standards
(OASIS), a vendor-neutral
standards body. The
specification, calle... Apr. 12, 2000 Reads: 6,655 |
An Approach to
Representing EDI in XML Electronic commerce isn't
new - more than 300,000
of the largest companies
worldwide exchange
electronic trade
documents every day.
XML-based Internet
commerce can't simply
ignore this realm.
According to Munro's Law,
'The value o... Apr. 12, 2000 Reads: 6,884 |
Interview with Jeremy
Allaire of Allaire
Corporation, Inc. XML-J: Recently, Allaire
has been in the
acquisition and
partnership mode. Can you
give us a brief history
of the events over the
last couple of years and
the rationale behind
these decisions? Apr. 12, 2000 Reads: 11,024 |
'There's Too Much
Confusion!' In the past year I've
encountered much
confusion about XML and
the role of databases. If
you're among the
confused, don't feel bad.
XML is the technology du
jour and there's a steady
stream of new
information. Vendors are
competin... Apr. 12, 2000 Reads: 6,964 |
It's changing the way
people build Web sites -
and what they can do with
them One of the most important
developments for the
Internet, XML is enabling
businesses to take their
corporate information to
the Web with an
efficiency and richness
that heretofore hasn't
been possible. Most
important, it is rapidly
... Apr. 12, 2000 Reads: 6,844 |
Introducing ebXML OASIS is involved in
quite a range of XML
activities. In my last
column I discussed its
increasing role in
helping to standardize
XML applications and
talked about what's being
done with XML.org. In
this column I'll
introduce you ... Apr. 12, 2000 Reads: 5,676 |
XML for B2B Integration It wasn't long ago that
computer industry pundits
still thought that COM
and CORBA would become
the Internet
business-to-business
(B2B) integration
infrastructure. Yet
nowadays B2B integration
on the Internet is done
using XML on ... Apr. 12, 2000 Reads: 14,174 |
ColdFusion and
Microsoft's XMLDOM Object When working out
data-sharing systems with
an organization's
business partners, you as
a developer may be asked
to send and receive data
in a more conventional
XML format. This may be
because those partners
prefer to speak more
ge... Apr. 12, 2000 Reads: 11,497 |
Are you getting your
Company 'XML-Ready'? The very fact that you've
picked up a copy of
XML-Journal or are
viewing it online at
www.XML-Journal.com and
are reading this
editorial means that my
job is half done. Because
it shows that you're
already paying attention
to XML ... Apr. 12, 2000 Reads: 5,191 |