Off With The Old... I'm on a trip to the holy
land, Jerusalem, and
writing this editorial
from my hotel room, which
overlooks the old city.
As always, I find myself
drawing parallels between
what I experience in life
and what I come across in
technology. May. 22, 2001 Reads: 8,242 |
Mission Impossible
XML(MI-XML) In previous articles in
XML-J (Vol. 2, issues 3,
4) we documented the
thought processes
involved in Crossmark's
development of a
knowledge management
system using NeoCore's
XML Information Server.
Although the first
version of the... May. 22, 2001 Reads: 6,117 |
Web Services and XML In my last column (XML-J,
Vol. 2, issue 1) I talked
about Web services and
how they can change the
way we think about
e-business and
application development.
This month I'd like to
elaborate on a few points
and examine some of the
... May. 22, 2001 Reads: 7,808 |
XYZFind XYZFind is an XML
repository, a place for
the storage, retrieval,
and update of multiple
and heterogeneous XML
documents. Having been
through many XML projects
and product development
cycles using parsers and
transform engines, I
... May. 22, 2001 Reads: 6,979 |
CapeConnect One CapeConnect by Cape Clear
Software offers the first
large-scale, commercially
available Web Services
Platform. In a nutshell,
CapeConnect is an XML
infrastructure. It allows
the developer to develop
and integrate XML-based
applicati... May. 22, 2001 Reads: 9,404 |
Web Services Description
Language It's time to look at the
details of the Web
Services Description
Language (WSDL)
specification and, in
particular, how abstract
information about Web
services is represented
in XML and which
extensibility mechanisms
enable the bin... May. 22, 2001 Reads: 13,796 |
Programming to XML Since its inception XML
has been an attention
grabber. Despite the hype
that continues to fog XML
even today, over the past
year we've witnessed a
fair number of XML-based
initiatives - such as
Simple Object Access
Protocol (SOAP), ... May. 22, 2001 Reads: 9,021 |
Web Services: The Next
Big Thing If you search under Web
Services in Yahoo! the
results include religious
supplies and services,
translation services,
adult entertainment, and
Internet services;
however, that's all about
to change. Web Services
are going to be the ... May. 22, 2001 Reads: 7,375 |
Process-Centric Business
Integration Accumulating a critical
mass of data will create
intelligence. Or so the
IT community has believed
for the past two decades.
However, intelligence
originates with the Latin
words inter ligere,
reading between the
lines, so intellige... May. 22, 2001 Reads: 6,407 |
Applying Java/XML/XSL
Technology In Part 1 of this article
(XML-J, Vol. 2, issue 4)
I discussed the
motivation and desire to
adapt XSL and JSP to
transform the pervasive
relational data to HTML. May. 22, 2001 Reads: 8,005 |
XML Scehmas And DTDs
Working Together This article compares and
contrasts the broad
functionality of XML
Schemas (whose approval
by the World Wide Web
Consortium is imminent)
with that of document
type definitions,
currently part of the XML
1.0 Recommendation. May. 22, 2001 Reads: 6,331 |
Grammars For VoiceXML
Applications The previous article in
this series, 'Tools for
Developing VoiceXML
Applications' (Vol. 2,
issue 3), reviewed tools
that can aid the
development and testing
of VoiceXML applications.
Now we dive into the
mechanisms of writing the
... May. 22, 2001 Reads: 10,349 |
XML Schema Extension
Mechanism XML application
development will take a
big leap forward with the
impending release of the
XML Schema Description
Language (XSDL) as a W3C
Recommendation. XSDL goes
far beyond what's offered
today by DTDs with the
addition of XML
... May. 22, 2001 Reads: 6,718 |
Getting Up To Speed With
XML XML. And XSLT, DTD,
XPath, XSL-FO, XLink,
XPointer, SAX, and DOM.
To the uninitiated, all
the talk about XML
quickly dissolves into an
alphabet soup of W3C
recommendations,
abbreviations, and
acronyms. May. 22, 2001 Reads: 8,281 |
Visual Schema Design with
UML Let's face it. Like it or
not, all modern business
communication is based on
graphical presentations.
If you give an XML DTD or
Schema - even one that's
been carefully documented
- to a typical manager,
his eyes would glaze over
and... May. 22, 2001 Reads: 8,389 |
Peer-to-Peer Trading
Networks Many companies have been
building P2P systems for
a number of years, even
before Napster made P2P
famous. In fact, P2P has
been around for a long
time under other names.
Distributed computing is
the most accurate - it
captures the e... May. 22, 2001 Reads: 6,463 |