Vol: 1 Iss: 1

Welcome to XML-Journal I'm sitting at my desk writing this editorial for the premier issue of XML-Journal for just one reason. And you're holding the issue in your hands for exactly the same reason: we both want to talk about XML - a technology that has revolutionized electronic commerce and enterprise compu... Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 8,054

Specification for the Metadata Interchange Format It's finally here - the specification for Components' Metadata Interchange based on XML. XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) format specifies an open-interchange model intended to give developers working with object and distributed technology the ability to exchange data between tools, appl... Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 6,001

Business to-Business E-Commerce: XML's Killer App Every technology we accept as standard and ubiquitous - from PCs to the World Wide Web - has achieved that level of overwhelming acceptance because of a 'killer app' or other enabling technologies. For PCs it was spreadsheets. For servers it was the relational database. The Internet mi... Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 5,219

XML: It's The 'X' That Matters As XML survives its debutante ball and begins to be accepted by mainstream IT shops, it's being put to work, creating excitement among CIOs with its extensibility. Having had first-hand experience with several next-generation XML e-business application deployments, I'd like to describe... Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 7,457

Building Distributed Applications with Corba and XML XML and CORBA are key technologies for building distributed systems, but both have evolved separately by addressing different needs of content management and distributed applications. This article illustrates how these technologies can benefit from each other. Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 9,783

Replace DTDs? Why? Of all the standards to accompany XML that are currently in progress at the W3C, few are more anxiously awaited than the Schema standard - the specification that provides an alternative to XML 1.0 DTDs as a way to describe a document's structure. But what's wrong with XML 1.0 DTDs? How... Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 7,299

SYS-CON Radio Interview with Coco Jaenicke XML-J: Would you care to comment on the state of XML technology in the industry today? Jaenicke: The official 'state' of XML is that it's been accepted, but I don't think it's well understood. Most IT managers and project leaders have XML on some checklist somewhere, but few have yet i... Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 10,115

: XML in the Enterprise Welcome to ! Some of you may be familiar with my e-Java column in SYS-CON Publications' Java Developer's Journal. I'd like to continue in the same flavor by focusing on the business aspects of XML in the computing industry. Similar to e-Java, I'll offer my two cents on an XML (or rela... Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 7,013

Java and XML: The Promised Land Welcome to Java and XML - the promised land. In the context of these two technologies the promised land presents a series of solutions in which the marriage between Java and XML has provided an optimal answer for solving distributed multiplatform problems. But do XML and Java actually ... Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 9,014

Dive Into the XML Specification The name of the author of XML: The Annotated Specification may sound familiar. Some of you may have heard of him because of his contributions in the XML industry. For others it's probably because you've just seen his name on the cover of this magazine - Bob is writing the Standar Watch... Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 6,523

XML Middleware: XML and Messaging XML has been used in applications as a means of passing data between heterogeneous applications, to provide metainformation over content and maintain structure in data. Simply put, if HTML is the language to display information, XML is the language that can speak business terms or jarg... Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 5,694

Presenting XML to the Web Every problem in software development can be approached in multiple ways. Graphical user interface (GUI) development is no exception to this rule. With increasing numbers of Web-based and e-commerce applications around the globe, the greatest demand so far - which is growing every day ... Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 8,003

Oasis and XML.org XML is a significant technological achievement, but what's it really good for when it comes to e-business and industry applications? In these columns I'll discuss how companies and consortiums are developing XML specifications for a wide range of industries. Most of the hot activity th... Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 7,000

Wireless Markup Language The ability to access Web content and send e-mail messages from a wireless phone has become a requirement for the rapidly growing segment of wireless Internet users. Application development for wireless devices can be more challenging than conventional Web development due to the inhere... Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 8,453

Extensible Integration of the Enterprise and Beyond One of the most significant challenges that businesses have traditionally faced is the integration of various system components throughout the enterprise. Over the past year, EAI (enterprise application integration) has emerged as a popular approach for integrating systems and gaining ... Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 7,807

Meaning, Not Markup This article explores the paradox that sharing a common vocabulary can actually restrict the richness and nuances of a business paradigm. Feb. 28, 2000  Reads: 8,992