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Cover Pages Newsletter
August 27, 2002
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Featured News Stories Selected Articles and Papers Selected from the Press Events Cover Pages Sponsors
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Recently featured news stories from the Cover Pages news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/news.html OR http://xml.coverpages.org/covernewsTOP.html
IDEAlliance Announces Speaker Lineup for XML 2002 Conference and Exposition
IDEAlliance has published a detailed program listing and roster of keynote presentations for the XML Conference and Exposition 2002, to be held December 8-13, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Lauren Wood is once again Chair of the XML Conference, which features than 150 presentations on XML technologies. The XML 2002 keynote speakers include Tim Bray, Whitfield Diffie, Robert Haycock, Craig Hayman, Pam Samuelson, and Robert Wahbe. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-08-27-a.html
Stream Index 'SIX' Used in XML Stream Processing Toolkit
A research team at the University of Washington has developed an XML toolkit using a highly scalable XML stream processor and an XML stream index (SIX). The XML toolkit consists of a number of utilities that perform simple operations on XML files; they can be combined sequentially in pipes. The downloadable toolkit includes a sort utility, an aggregation utility, and a mapping utility to transform Unix directory hierarchies to XML. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-08-26-d.html
Microsoft Announces Web Services Development Kit Technology Preview
Microsoft has announced a technical preview for the Microsoft Web Services Development Kit (WSDK). The WSDK is a .NET class library for building Web services using the latest Web services protocols, including WS-Security, WS-Routing, DIME, and WS-Attachments. It provides a low-level API that allows developers apply these protocols directly to individual SOAP messages being sent using HTTP. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-08-26-c.html
New Draft Specifications from MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework Project
The MPEG Convenor has announced the advancement of draft specifications in the MPEG-21 multimedia framework project, which uses XML. The MPEG-21 Multimedia Description Schemes Subgroup has completed ISO Committee Drafts for MPEG-21 Part 5 'Rights Expression Language (REL)' and MPEG-21 Part 6 'Rights Data Dictionary (RDD)'. The REL and RDD work together to allow the machine-readable expression of rights associated with the use of multimedia. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-08-26-b.html
Apache Xalan XSLT Compiler (XSLTC) Integrated into the Java Web Services Developer Pack (WSDP)
An announcement from Sun Microsystems' XML Technology Center describes the availability of a new Java Web Services Developer Pack (WSDP) integrating the Apache Xalan XSLT Compiler. The XSLT Compiler (XSLTC) is a high-performance alternative to the Xalan Classic XSLT Processor for transforming XML documents into a variety of output formats. Java WSDP is a free, integrated toolset for building Web services and Web applications. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-08-26-a.html
IBM alphaWorks Releases Conversation Support for Web Services
A development team at IBM alphaWorks labs has released 'Conversation Support for Web Services'. Conversation Support for Web Services is a technology that proposes and implements a conversational model of e- business interaction by extending and building on the Web Services architecture. A supporting document describes IBM's Conversation Policy XML (cpXML), an XML dialect for describing conversation policies, now under development. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-08-21-b.html
W3C Publishes Preview Candidate Recommendation for XForms Specification
The W3C has released a pre-CR 'XForms 1.0' specification. XForms is an XML application representing the next generation of forms for the Web. Independently defining the XForms model, instance data, and user interface, XForms separates presentation from content, allows reuse, and gives strong typing, thus reducing the number of round-trips to the server. It supports device independence and reduces the need for scripting. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-08-21-a.html
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Selections of abstracted and annotated articles/clippings at: http://xml.coverpages.org/articles.html http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings.html
IBM Multimodal Annotation Tool Supports Video and Audio Annotations for MPEG-7 Files. http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200208.html#clip2002-08-26-a http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/multimodalannotation
"XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0." W3C Proposed Recommendation 27-August-2002. Authors/Editors: John Boyer (PureEdge Solutions Inc.), Merlin Hughes (Baltimore Technologies Ltd.), and Joseph Reagle (W3C). http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-xmldsig-filter2-20020827/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#xmldsigFilter
"What's Behind BEA's Big Bet On Tools?" By Jack Vaughan. In Application Development Trends Volume 9, Number 8 (August 2002), pages 48-55. http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6562 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#BEA-Tools
"Microsoft Delivers Web Services Toolkit." By Richard Karpinski. In InternetWeek (August 27, 2002). http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/INW20020827S0004 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#KarpinskiWSD
"What's New in EJB 2.1?" By Emmanuel Proulx. Published on The O'Reilly Network, ONJava.com (August 14, 2002). http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/08/14/ejb21.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#ProulxEJB
"W3C, OASIS Meet Over Web Security Standards." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (August 27, 2002). http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,487826,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#SecurityForum
"Update on SSML [Speech Synthesis Markup Language Specification]." By Daniel C. Burnett. In VoicexML Review (July/August 2002). http://www.voicexmlreview.org/Aug2002/features/update_ssml.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#SSML-Update
"The IETF Speech Services Control Working Group." By Eric Burger. In VoicexML Review (July/August 2002). http://www.voicexmlreview.org/Aug2002/features/ietf_speech.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#IETF-speechsc
"BEA, Palm Partner On Web Services For Handhelds." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (August 27, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/08/27/020827hnbeapalm.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#BEA-Palm
"What's New in EJB 2.1?" By Tarak Modi. In Java Pro Magazine, Volume 6, Number 10 (October 2002). http://www.fawcette.com/javapro/2002_10/magazine/features/tmodi/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#EJBv21
"JAXR: A Web Services Building Block." By Sameer Tyagi. In JavaPro Magazine, Volume 6, Number 10 (October 2002). http://www.fawcette.com/javapro/2002_10/magazine/features/styagi/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#JAXR
"Get to the Top with 10 Wireless Technologies." By Jeff Jurvis (Compaq Global Services). In Java Pro Magazine, Volume 6, Number 10 (October 2002). http://www.fawcette.com/wireless/jurvis/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#JurvisWireless
"Practicing Safer SAX. [Column: Javatecture.]" By James W. Cooper. In Java Pro Magazine, Volume 6, Number 10 (October 2002). http://www.fawcette.com/javapro/2002_10/magazine/columns/javatecture/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#CooperSAX
"Microsoft Readies Specifications Compliance Kit for Web Services." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (August 26, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/08/25/020825hnwskit.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#Krill-WSDK
"Microsoft Previews Web Services Kit." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (August 26, 2002). http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,486118,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#Taft-WSDK
"XMLTK: An XML Toolkit for Scalable XML Stream Processing." Draft version 2002-07. 13 pages. By Iliana Avila-Campillo (Institute for Systems Biology), Todd Green (Xyleme), Ashish Gupta (University of Washington), Makoto Onizuka (NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, NTT Corporation ), Demian Raven (University of Washington) and Dan Suciu (University of Washington). Paper prepared for presentation at the PLAN-X Workshop on Programming Language Technologies for XML, October 3, 2002, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. http://xml.coverpages.org/XMLTK-planx.pdf http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/suciu/XMLTK/planx.ps
"Registering and Discovering RSS Feeds in UDDI." By Karsten Januszewski (Microsoft Corporation). Microsoft White paper at GotDotNet. http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/karstenj/docs/rss_in_uddi.aspx http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#RSS-UDDI
"WS-I Sorts Out Web Services Specs." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (August 26, 2002). http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,482346,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#TaftWS-I
"Startup Eyes XML Management, Monitoring." By Tom Sullivan. In InfoWorld (August 25, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/08/25/020825hnswingtide.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#Swingtide
"The Query Language TQL." By Giovanni Conforti, Giorgio Ghelli, Antonio Albano, Dario Colazzo, Paolo Manghi, and Carlo Sartiani (Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita di Pisa, Pisa, Italy). http://www.db.ucsd.edu/webdb2002/papers/43.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#Conforti
"User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0." W3C Working Draft 21-August-2002. Edited by Ian Jacobs (W3C), Jon Gunderson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Eric Hansen (Educational Testing Service). http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-UAAG10-20020821/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#UAAG10
"The Distributive ebXML Grid." By David Lyon (GTD Technologies Pty Limited). Document posted to 'regrep@lists.oasis-open.org'. August 22, 2002. Slides from a Sydney meeting of August 20, 2002. http://xml.coverpages.org/ebXML-Grid-Aus.pdf
"Cryptographically Enforced Conditional Access for XML." Paper presented at the Fifth International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2002), Madison, Wisconsin - June 6-7, 2002. By Gerome Miklau and Dan Suciu (University of Washington). http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gerome/pubs/webdb2002MS/webdb2002MS.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#Miklau
"Top Ten Tips to Using XPath and XPointer." By John Simpson. From XML.com. August 21, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/08/14/xpath_tips.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#SimpsonTips
"Business Maps: Topic Maps Go B2B!" By Marc de Graauw. From XML.com. August 21, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/08/21/topicmapb2b.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#deGraauw
"OSCON 2002 Perl and XML Review." By Kip Hampton. From XML.com. August 21, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/08/21/perl-xml.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#OReillyPerl
Information Technology -- Multimedia Framework -- Part 5: Rights Expression Language -- Committee Draft. Edited by Thomas DeMartini (ContentGuard, US), Xin Wang (ContentGuard, US), and Barney Wragg (UMG, UK). International Organization for Standardization. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11: Coding of Moving Pictures and Audio. Document Reference: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11/N4942. Date: 2002-07-26, ISO/IEC CD 21000-5. Multimedia Description Schemes Group. Approved at the Klagenfurt, Austria Meeting. 115 pages. http://xml.coverpages.org/MPEG-REL-CD4942.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#MPEG-REL-CD
"Validation and Boolean Operations for Attribute-Element Constraints." By Haruo Hosoya (Kyoto University) and Makoto Murata (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory). Paper prepared for presentation at the PLAN-X Workshop on Programming Language Technologies for XML, October 3, 2002, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 28 pages. http://xml.coverpages.org/PlanX-AttrElm.pdf http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~hahosoya/papers/attelm.ps
"TV-Anytime Forum Specification Series: S-2, System Description." Date: 5-April-2002. Reference: SP002v1.2. Informative, with mandatory Appendix B. 39 pages. http://xml.coverpages.org/TVA-SP001V11.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#tvAnytimeS2
"CHANT (CHinese ANcient Texts): A Comprehensive Database of All Ancient Chinese Texts up to 600 AD." By Che Wah Ho (Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. Hong Kong). In Journal of Digital Information Volume 3 Issue 2 (August 09, 2002). http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/Ho/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#Chant
"The Layered Markup and Annotation Language (LMNL)." By Jeni Tennison (Jeni Tennison Consulting) and Wendell Piez (Mulberry Technologies). Extended abstract of a presentation given at Extreme Markup 2002. http://xml.coverpages.org/LMNL-Abstract.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#LMNL
"Declaring Trees: The Future of the Evolution of Markup? Just-In-Time-Trees (JITTs)." By Patrick Durusau and Matthew Brook O'Donnell. Based on a paper presented at Extreme Markup 2002. http://www.sbl-site2.org/Extreme2002/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#Durusau
"Meaning and Interpretation of Concurrent Markup." By Andreas Witt (Universitaet Bielefeld). Presented at ALLC/ACH 2002, Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities, July 24 - 28, 2002, University of Tuebingen, Germany. http://coli.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/Texttechnologie/Forschergruppe/prolog/allc2002-witt.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#WittConcur
"UDDI Should Flourish Under OASIS." By Dave Kearns. In Network World (August 14, 2002). Network World Directories Newsletter. http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/dir/2002/01502676.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#KearnsUDDI
"Thinking About the Future of Data." By Paul Festa [and Dave Hollander, W3C]. In CNET News.com (August 21, 2002). http://news.com.com/2008-12-954751.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#Festa-Hollander
"Get started with Castor JDO. Learn the basics of object-relational data binding using Castor." By Bruce Snyder (Senior Software Engineer, DigitalGlobe). From IBM developerWorks, Java technology. August 2002. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-castor/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#CastorJDO
"Web Services Security Addendum." Edited by Chris Kaler (Microsoft). 18-August-2002. From International Business Machines Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, and VeriSign, Inc. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-secureadd.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#WS-SecAdd
"The Most Important Open-Source Project You've (Probably) Never Heard Of." By Richard Karpinski. In InternetWeek (August 20, 2002). http://www.internetwk.com/webDev/INW20020820S0009 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#Eclipse
"Exploring XML Encryption, Part 2. Implement an XML Encryption Engine." By Bilal Siddiqui (CEO, WAP Monster). From IBM developerWorks, XML Zone. August 2002. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-encrypt2/index.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#SiddiquiEncrypt
"Dynamic e-Business Using BPEL4WS, WS-Coordination, WS-Transaction, and Conversation Support for Web Services." By Santhosh Kumaran and Prabir Nandi (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center). Paper presented with the (downloadable) IBM alphaWorks application "Conversation Support for Web Services." http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#IBM-DynamicEB http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/download/cs-ws
"Conversation-Enabled Web Services for Agents and e-Business." By James E. Hanson, Prabir Nandi, and David W. Levine (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights NY 10598). http://www.research.ibm.com/convsupport/papers/ic2002.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#cpXML
"Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS)." By Andrew L. Newton (VeriSign, Inc., WWW). Network Working Group Internet-Draft. Reference: 'draft-ietf-crisp-iris-core'. August 14, 2002, expires February 12, 2003. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-crisp-iris-core-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#IRIS
"Using the Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS) over the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP)." By Andrew L. Newton (VeriSign, Inc., WWW). Network Working Group Internet-Draft. Reference: 'draft-ietf-crisp-iris-beep'. August 14, 2002, expires February 12, 2003. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-crisp-iris-beep-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#IRIS-BEEP
"Sun Opens Up With Storage Software Suite." By Scott Tyler Shafer. In InfoWorld (August 19, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/08/19/020819hnsunstorage.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#SunStorage
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"Palm and BEA Partner to Mobilize Web Services in the Enterprise. Industry Leaders to Enable Enterprises to Develop and Deploy Web Services and Extend Enterprise Data Access to Palm Handhelds." http://xml.coverpages.org/Palm-BEA-PartnerMobile.html
"Check Point Software First to Secure Web Services. XML/SOAP Security Made Possible With Breakthrough Application Intelligence Technology." http://www.checkpoint.com/press/2002/xmlsoap082702.html http://xml.coverpages.org/press2002Q3.html#CheckPoint
"Microsoft Enables Developers to Build Advanced, More Secure Web Services. Company Announces Technology Preview of Microsoft Web Services Development Kit." http://xml.coverpages.org/MicrosoftWSDK200208.html
"Ipedo Introduces XML Views Integration Technology. Simplifies Content and Data Merging, Consolidates XML for Web and Web Services Applications." http://xml.coverpages.org/IpedoXML-Views.html
"OASIS Seats New Board of Directors and Forms Technical Advisory Board." http://xml.coverpages.org/OASIS-SeatsNewBoard200208.html
Fujitsu Interstage Demonstrates Business Process Interoperability for the Automotive Retail Industry. Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGI) Project Shows Fujitsu Interstage Providing Business Process Integration across Vendors Utilizing ebXML, OAGIS and Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail (STAR) Specifications." http://xml.coverpages.org/FujitsuInterstage200208.html
Sun Microsystems Delivers New CIM-Compliant San Management Software. Continues To Lead Industry On Storage Open Standards. Complete Storage Management Portfolio Enables Customers to Improve Service Levels and Reduce Total Cost of Ownership." http://xml.coverpages.org/SunStorEdge20020820.html
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Open Integration. Ninth Annual Conference for Open Standards and Systems Integration Incorporating XML Asia Pacific. November 11 - 14, 2002. Star City, Sydney. Australia. http://www.open-conferences.com/OpenIntegration/Index.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#openIntegration2002
Workshop on XML as a Preservation Strategy. October 9 - 11, 2002. Urbino, Italy. http://www.erpanet.org/php/urbino/workshop.htm
VoiceXML Planet Fall 2002 Conference and Exposition. September 26-27, 2002. Omni Parker House, Boston, MA, USA. http://www.intmediaevents.com/vxml/fall02/index.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#vxml2002Fall
Twenty-second International Unicode Conference (IUC22) 'Unicode and the Web: Evolution or Revolution?' September 9-13, 2002, San Jose, California, USA http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc22 http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#iuc22
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