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Cover Pages Newsletter
November 19, 2002
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CONTENTS
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
Liberty Alliance Releases Draft Version 1.1 Specifications for Public Review.
The Liberty Alliance Project has released a public review draft of the v1.1 specifications, incorporating reviewer feedback on v1.0. The Liberty specifications focus on enabling interoperability between technology systems to make it easy for businesses to provide opt-in account linking and simplified sign-on functionality to partners, customers and employees. The document suite includes an Overview, Glossary, and Implementation Guidelines. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-11-19-a.html
IBM alphaWorks Releases Web Services Toolkit for Mobile Devices.
IBM alphaWorks has released a Web Services Tool Kit for Mobile Devices. WSTKMD provides tools and run-time environments that allow development of applications that use Web Services on small mobile devices. Its Java Web service run-time environment using the kSOAP SOAP API built upon kXML is supported on PoctketPC, Palm, and BlackBerry. The C Web service run-time environment using small- footprint gSOAP is supported on the Palm. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-11-18-a.html
ISO SC34 Publishes Draft Reference Model for Topic Maps (RM4TM).
A draft of "The Reference Model for Topic Maps (RM4TM)" has been published by members of the ISO Topic Map Models Project. The Reference Model defines an abstract graph structure for the representation of relationships between subjects, rules for defining Applications of the Topic Maps paradigm, and rules for processing the information contained in topic maps. Topic Maps help make "subject" information accessible from a single location. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-11-16-a.html
W3C Patent Policy Working Group Issues Last Call Royalty-Free Patent Policy Working Draft.
W3C has released a last call working draft for the "Patent Policy Working Group Royalty-Free Patent Policy". The draft policy governs the handling of patents in the process of producing and implementing W3C Recommendations. Patent disclosures are required for WG participants and others in W3C Member organizations; WG participants in W3C Recommendation development must agree to license essential claims (patents) on a royalty-free (RF) basis. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-11-15-a.html
BPMI.org Publishes BPML 1.0 and Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) Working Draft.
The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org) has announced the final draft for the Business Process Modeling Language (BPML 1.0) and the first public working draft for the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). This business process modeling language and graphical notation can be used by business analysts for the modeling of executable and manageable business processes. Mappings from BPMN to BPML and BPEL4WS are documented. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-11-13-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
"Comdex: Open Mobile Alliance to Announce Eight Mobile Specs." By Ephraim Schwartz. In InfoWorld (November 19, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/11/19/021119hnoma.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Schwartz
"Web Identity: Weighing the Alternatives." By Carol Sliwa. In Computerworld (November 11, 2002). http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,75764,00.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Sliwa
"Liberty Alliance Updates Net Identity Specification." By John Blau. In InfoWorld (November 19, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/11/19/021119hnliberty.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Blau
"Liberty Alliance Updates Identity Specification." By John Fontana. In Network World (November 19, 2002). http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/1119liballiance.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#FontanaLA
"ASC X12 Reference Model For XML Design." From ASC X12C Communications and Controls Subcommittee. [And from] Data Interchange Standards Association, Inc. (DISA). Technical Report Type II. ASC X12C/2002-61. October 2002. 112 pages. http://xml.coverpages.org/X12RefModXMLDesign.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#RefModelX12
"Mixed Messages. Organizations Can Manage Both EDI and XML to Get the Best of Both Worlds." By John Moore. By John Moore. In Federal Computer Week (November 18, 2002). http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/1118/tec-mixed-11-18-02.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#MooreEDI
"XML For the Rest of Us. [Microsoft Office 11 and XML.]" By Jon Udell. In InfoWorld Issue 46 (November 18, 2002), pages 18-19. http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/11/18/021118plmsxml.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Udell-Off11
"Developer's Introduction to JAX-RPC, Part 1: Learn the ins and outs of the JAX-RPC type-mapping system. Type mapping lays the foundation for interoperable Web services." By Joshy Joseph (Software Engineer, IBM OGSA Development Team). From IBM developerWorks, Web services. November 2002. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-jaxrpc1/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Joseph
"Scoping Out Web Services Problems." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (November 19, 2002). http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,715680,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Mindreef
"SAML 1.0 is Adopted - What Developers Can Expect." By Vance McCarthy. From Integration Developer News (November 18, 2002). http://idevnews.com/IntegrationNews.asp?ID=36 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#McCarthySAML
"Enosys Puts Liquid in Liquid Data." By Carolyn A. April. In InfoWorld (November 18, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/11/18/021118hnenosys.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Enosys
"IBM Builds Mobile Web Services Toolkit." By [ComputerWire Staff]. In The Register (November 18, 2002). http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/28139.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#WSTKMD
"Get Ahead With Java Web Services: Get Up to Speed on the Java Web Services Developer Pack." By James McCarthy (President, Symmetry Solutions, Inc). From IBM developerWorks, Web services. November 2002. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-jwsdp/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#JavaWSDP
"Sun Boosts Enterprise Java. The Upcoming J2EE 1.4 Release Supports New XML and Web Services Semantics." By B. J. Fesq. In Java World (November 15, 2002). http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-11-2002/jw-1115-j2eews.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Fesq
"ebXML Adoption Update." From the OASIS ebXML Awareness Team. November 2002. 17 pages. An update reporting on ebXML implementations. http://www.ebxml.org/ebxml_jmt/documents/ebxml_adopt_nov02_rc.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#ebXMLAdoption
"Normalizing XML, Part 1." By Will Provost. From XML.com. November 13, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/13/normalizing.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#ProvostNorm
"RDF, What's It Good For?" By Kendall Grant Clark. From XML.com. November 13, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/13/deviant.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#ClarkRDF
"Proper XML Output in Python." By Uche Ogbuji. From XML.com. November 13, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/13/py-xml.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#OgbujiPython
"W3C Promotes Royalty-Free Web Services Standards." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (November 14, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/11/14/021114hnw3last.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Krill-W3CRF
"New Oracle App Server To Bolster Mobile Support, Toplink Integration." By Barbara Darrow. In CRN (November 13, 2002). http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=38503 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#OracleMobile
"On XML Objects." By Martin Kempa and Volker Linnemann (Institut für Informationssysteme, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany). Paper presented at the PLAN-X Workshop on Programming Language Technologies for XML (October 3, 2002, Pittsburgh, PA, USA). 11 pages, with 27 references. http://www.research.avayalabs.com/user/wadler/planx/planx-eproceed/papers/E00-699879232.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#KempaObjects
"An Algorithm for Streaming XPath Processing with Forward and Backward Axes." By Charles Barton, Philippe Charles, Marcus Fontoura, and Deepak Goyal (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center); Vanja Josifovski and Mukund Raghavachari (IBM Almaden Research Center). Paper presented at the PLAN-X Workshop on Programming Language Technologies for XML (October 3, 2002, Pittsburgh, PA, USA). 10 pages, with 15 references. http://www.research.avayalabs.com/user/wadler/planx/planx-eproceed/papers/E00-1722831666.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Barton
"Static Analysis for Dynamic XML." By Aske Simon Christensen, Anders Moeller, and Michael I. Schwartzbach (BRICS, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark). Paper presented at the PLAN-X Workshop on Programming Language Technologies for XML (October 3, 2002, Pittsburgh, PA, USA). 12 pages, with 11 references. http://www.research.avayalabs.com/user/wadler/planx/planx-eproceed/papers/E00-1868950904.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#Christensen
"Web Services Development: Jean Paoli on XML in Office 11." By Jon Udell. In InfoWorld (November 14, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/11/14/021114opwebserv.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#UdellPaoli
"Business Process Standard Moves Forward." By Richard Karpinski. In InternetWeek.com (November 13, 2002). http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/INW20021113S0010 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#KarpinskiBPMN
"XML Forms Specification Approved by W3C." By John Fontana. In Network World (November 12, 2002). http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/1112xforms.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200211.html#FontanaXForms
"Systinet Announces WASP 4.5 Beta Web Services Platform." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200211.html#clip2002-11-14-b
"XML Thunder for COBOL." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200211.html#clip2002-11-14-a
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"Open Mobile Alliance Announces New Specifications, OMA Release Program, and Additional Industry Forum Consolidation." http://xml.coverpages.org/OMA-Specs20021119.html
"Liberty Alliance Releases Version 1.1 Specification Draft for Public Review. Version 1.1 Draft Provides Maintenance Updates to Existing 1.0 Specifications." http://xml.coverpages.org/LibertyAlliance-V11.html
"Mindreef Announces Availability of SOAPscope Personal 1.0 at SD East. Industry's First Web Services Diagnostics System Helps Solve Common Web Services Problems." http://xml.coverpages.org/SOAPscope10-Ann.html
"FpML.org Founder Announces World's First FpML Tools Community. Gem Soup Launches Collaborative Software Development for OTC Derivatives." http://xml.coverpages.org/FpML-GemSoup.html
"Enosys Powers New Class Of Enterprise Information Integration Applications. Selection of Enosys as BEA Systems Partner Endorses XQuery. New XQuery Products from Microsoft, IBM and Oracle Mark Growing Demand for XQuery-based EII." http://xml.coverpages.org/Enosys-XQuery.html
"BPMI.org Releases Final Draft for BPML 1.0 and First Public Draft for the BPMN Notation. Specification Duo Enables Standards-Based Business Process Management for the Enterprise." http://xml.coverpages.org/BPML10-BPMN.html
"eXcelon Announces Release of XIS Lite. New Version of Native XML Database Provides Key Benefits of Full-Scale Offering at Lower Cost Point of Entry." http://xml.coverpages.org/ExcelonXIS-Lite.html
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Events --------------------------------------------------------------------
Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
19th International Conference on Data Engineering. ICDE 2003. March 5 - March 8, 2003. Bangalore, India. http://www.aztecsoft.com/icde2003/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#icde2003
18th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. ACSAC 2002. "Practical Solutions to Real Security Problems." December 9 - 13, 2002. Alexis Park Resort & Spa, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.acsac.org http://www.acsac.org/2002/adv_pgm.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#ACSAC2002
XML Conference and Exposition 2002. "XML 2002: Putting the Pieces Together." December 8 - 13, 2002. The Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2002/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#xml2002
OeBF Tablet PC Digital Publishing Conference. December 5, 2002. McGraw-Hill Auditorium, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, USA. http://www.openebook.org/tabletpc http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#TabletPC2002
XML Security 2002. 2002 ACM Workshop on XML Security. November 22, 2002. Johnson Center in George Mason University, Fairfax VA, USA. http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigsac/ccs/CCS2002/CFP/XMLSec2002.html http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-07-31-a.html
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