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Cover Pages Newsletter
April 01, 2003
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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
WS-I Charters Basic Security Profile Working Group (BSPWG).
The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) has announced a new Basic Security Profile Working Group. BSPWG will develop an interoperability profile as an extension to the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0; it will address transport security, SOAP messaging security, and other security considerations implicated by the WS-I Basic Profile. The WG will develop a set of usage scenarios and their component message exchange patterns (MEPs). http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-04-01-a.html
XACML XML DSig Profile Supports Authentication of XACML Schema Instances.
The OASIS Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC has published a draft "XACML XML DSig Profile" specifying the use of the W3C "XML-Signature Syntax and Processing" Standard in providing authentication and integrity protection for XACML schema instances -- policies, authorization decision requests, and authorization decision responses. The XACML specification defines an XML schema for an extensible access-control policy language. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-03-28-b.html
OpenOffice.org Releases Version 1.1 Beta for Open Source Office Productivity Suite.
OpenOffice.org version 1.1 Beta has been released, incorporating many new features and changes introduced with the developer builds over the past year. It supports new import/export formats such as PDF, Macromedia Flash, DocBook, several PDA Office file formats, flat XML, and XHTML. Complex Text Layout (CTL) now supports languages such as Thai, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew. The product uses open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-03-28-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
"The Liberty Alliance." By Paul Madsen. From WebServices.xml.com (April 01, 2003). An infrastructure defined for federated identity on the Internet will leverage the XML syntax of the Internet; this paper discusses the specific applications of XML within the Liberty Alliance specifications. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/04/01/liberty.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Madsen
"CTO Forum: BEA Exec Hails Service-Oriented Architectures. Web Services, Messaging Play Roles." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (April 01, 2003). BEA's Adam Bosworth says service-oriented architectures leveraging messaging and Web services are key to meeting complicated system integration needs. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/01/HNbosworthtalk_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Bosworth
"Perspective: Pay Attention to BPM." By J. William Gurley. From CNet News.com (March 27, 2003). Delphi Group believes that business process management (BPM) is quickly emerging as the moniker for the next killer app in enterprise software. http://news.com.com/2010-1071-994310.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Gurley
"Curing the Web's Identity Crisis: Subject Indicators for RDF." By Steve Pepper and Sylvia Schwab (Ontopia). Ontopia Technical Report. March 2003. The paper describes the crisis of identity facing the World Wide Web rooted in a lack of clarity about the nature of 'resources'. http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/identitycrisis.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Pepper
"T-Mobile Bet Is Paying Off." By Anne Chen. In eWEEK (April 01, 2003). T-Mobile is placing a new bet on the potential of Web services to make it easier for external providers of content such as stock and weather updates to tie into its network, increasing revenue opportunities and enriching services for consumers. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,984860,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Chen
"ASN1C Mapping of ASN.1 Syntax to XML Schema." White Paper. From Objective Systems, Inc. March 2003. 21 pages. The paper presents a mapping for ASN.1 to W3C XML Schema (XSD) conversion. http://www.obj-sys.com/docs/ASN1toXMLSchemaWhitePaper.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#ASN1C
"Web Services Security, Part 2." By Bilal Siddiqui. From WebServices.xml.com (April 01, 2003). Part 2 discusses three XML-based security standards [XML Signatures, XML Encryption and Web Services Security] which offer user authentication, message integrity and confidentiality features in SOAP communications. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/04/01/security.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Siddiqui2
"Native XML Scripting." By Timothy Appnel. From the O'Reilly Developer Weblogs. April 01, 2003. ECMA announced it is completing what it calls E4X (ECMAScript for XML). http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2997 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Appnel
"Getting Your Arms Around Web Services." By Murthy Nukala and M. R. Rangaswami (Sand Hill Group). In Optimize Magazine Issue 17 (March 2003). The Sand Hill Group identified a key characteristic among successful Web-services implementations: they are strictly business- driven. Enterprise customers say the technology will survive because it makes a business impact, rather than being adopted for technology's sake. http://www.optimizemag.com/issue/017/innovation.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Nukala
"Group Addresses Web Services Security." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (April 01, 2003). The Web Services Interoperability Organization has announced the formation of its Basic Security Profile Working Group (BSPWG). http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,988807,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#TaftWSISec
"WS-I Working Group Tackles Security. Aims to Develop Guidelines for Web Services Interoperability." By Paul Roberts. In InfoWorld (April 01, 2003). A new working group within the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) will focus on ways to develop secure Web services. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/01/HNwsisecurity_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#RobertsWSISec
"Architectural Design Patterns for XML Documents." By Kyle Downey. From XML.com (March 26, 2003). Describes some patterns for XML document structure that are useful for those designing documents from the ground up. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/26/patterns.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Downey
"XML Standards for Financial Services." By Ayesha Malik. From XML.com (March 26, 2003). Malik describes the current state of play in the electronic communications sector of the financial services world and gives an overview of the XML standards that will change the way the industry works. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/26/financial.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Malik
"Choosing Among JCA, JMS, and Web Services for EAI. Positioning Alternative Interface Technologies for Enterprise Integration." By Regis Coqueret (Engagement Manager/Solutions Architect, jStart Emerging Technologies, IBM Software Group) and Marc Fiammante (Senior Consulting IT Architect, SWG EMEA Business Integration Technical Sales, IBM). . From IBM developerWorks, Web services. March 2003. The article discusses criteria for choosing among J2C Connector Architecture (JCA), Java Message Service (JMS), and Web services implementations. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-jcajms.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200304.html#Coqueret
"Topic Maps Model (TMM)." By Steven R. Newcomb, Sam Hunting, Jan Algermissen, and Patrick Durusau. Produced for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 Information Technology -- Document Description and Processing Languages. March 28, 2003. Editor's Draft, Revision 2.30. Reference: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N0393. See also the previous version (1.0). This draft specifies the information structure of all topic maps, certain common properties of topics, and constraints on the values of those properties, etc. http://www.isotopicmaps.org/tmmm/TMMM-2.30/N0393.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#TMMM2
"Living With Topic Maps and RDF. Topic Maps, RDF, DAML, OIL, OWL, TMCL." By Lars Marius Garshol (Ontopia). Discusses how to do data conversion back and forth between the two, schema conversion, the use of OWL in topic maps, and the possibility for a common query language. http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tmrdf.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#Garshol
"Secure Web Services." By Sang Shin. In Java World (March 18, 2003). Discusses WS security characteristics and explains why Web services need a different set of security schemes. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2003/jw-0321-wssecurity.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#SangShin
"Web Services Security? Not Yet." By David Chappell. In Application Devemopment Trends (April 01, 2003). Without an effective way to authenticate clients, guarantee the integrity of transferred data and to ensure data remains confidential during transit, Web services can be applied only in limited ways. http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7461 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#ChappellSecurity
"SOAP Version 1.2 Message Normalization." Edited by Martin Gudgin (Microsoft) and Marc Hadley (Sun Microsystems). W3C Note 28- March-2003. Produced by members of the the W3C XML Protocol Working Group. Current XML canonicalizations do not take into account the transforms that a SOAP intermediary can legally apply to messages passing through it; this document defines a transformation that renders all semantically equivalent SOAP messages identically. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-soap12-n11n-20030328/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#SOAP-Norm
"Next-Gen Web Services." By Timothy Dyck. In eWEEK (March 31, 2003). Cutting-edge tools from Systinet Corp. and BEA Systems Inc. push SOAP 1.1 just about as far as it can go with tools for developing, securing and managing Web services. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,981998,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#DyckWS
"WordML: Word 2003 Native XML Samples Online." By [Eoin Campbell]. From XML Workshop Ltd. March 28, 2003. Annotated sample supplies the native binary Word document used and the Word XML document generated when saved as XML; the XML document is well-formed, and conforms to the XML Schema called WordML. http://www.xmlw.ie/aboutxml/wordml.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#Campbell
"Open-Source Movement Gains Ground on Microsoft." By Darryl K. Taft and Scot Petersen. In eWEEK (March 24, 2003). A significant customer opportunity is emerging for open-source software, as more state and federal governments loosen their restrictions on implementations of such software. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,971253,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#TaftOpenSource
"Web Services Security and More: The Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA)." By Joseph M. Chiusano (Booz Allen Hamilton). From Developer.com (March 2003). GXA is an application-level protocol framework that is built on the foundation of XML and SOAP. http://www.developer.com/design/article.php/2171031 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#ChiusanoGXA2
"Metaserver 4.0 Stands Out in Crowded BPI Market. Integration Platform Boasts New Features and Enhanced Flexibility and Resiliency." By Mario Apicella. In InfoWorld (March 21, 2003). Metaserver is a powerful platform for creating and executing new business processes by recycling existing applications and technical resources, which minimizes development and administration costs. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/21/13metaserver_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#Apicella
"Mission Accomplished. Review of Microsoft InfoPath 2003 Beta 2." By Jon Udell (InfoWorld Test Center). In InfoWorld (March 31, 2003). InfoPath empowers business users to design those documents, fill them with data, and exchange them while guaranteeing the fidelity of that data and shielding the documents from the underlying XML machinery. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/28/13infopath_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#UdellInfoPath
"InfoPath Shows XML's Promise." By Jason Brooks. In eWEEK (March 31, 2003). InfoPath is a new application for designing and filling out XML-based forms; it stores form data in simple XML files which derive their structure, appearance and validation from templates also written in XML. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,988027,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#BrooksInfoPath
"WS-I: Guiding Interoperability." By Jeff Reser (IBM Strategic Software Solutions). In .NET Magazine (March 2003). The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) was formed in February 2002 to address the issues surrounding the interoperable nature of a Web services-oriented architecture. http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_03/magazine/departments/guestop/default.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#Reser
"A Corporate-Friendly Makeover for Open-Source IM." By Christopher Saunders. In Enterprise IM (March 27, 2003). "The open-source IM movement stands to gain from a new, graphical front-end for installing and configuring the JabberD server. http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/enterprise/article.php/2171441 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#Saunders
"XMPP Instant Messaging." By Peter Saint-Andre and Jeremie Miller (Jabber Software Foundation). IETF Network Working Group, Internet- Draft. Reference: 'draft-ietf-xmpp-im-06'. March 26, 2003, expires September 24, 2003. 73 pages. This document describes the extensions to and applications of XMPP Core that are used to create the basic functionality expected of an instant messaging and presence application as defined in RFC 2779. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-xmpp-im-06.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#xmppV06
"Web Services Paths Remain Divided. Opposing Forces Struggle Over Standards." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (March 28, 2003). As a dazzling array of vendor-driven standards continues to emerge, a fresh set of machinations are proving that the battle for control of Web services standards remains alive and well between two camps. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/28/13standards_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#KrillWSDivided
"Sun Wins WS-I Seat." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (March 27, 2003). Sun Microsystems Inc. has won a two-year position on the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) board of directors. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,976152,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#TaftWSI-Board
"Sun Brewing Simpler Java." By Darryl K. Taft and Mary Jo Foley. In eWEEK (March 17, 2003). In a move designed to attract more developers to its vision of Web services and application development, Sun Microsystems Inc. is developing enhancements to the Java language that provide a more Visual Basic-like experience. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,933588,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200303.html#TaftSunJava
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"WS-I Charters Basic Security Profile Working Group. Industry Organization Tackles Interoperability Issues with Web Services Security." http://xml.coverpages.org/WSI-BSPWG.html
"Web Leaders Agree to Add Native XML to ECMAScript. New ECMA International Standard, ECMAScript for XML (E4X), to Unlock the Power of XML for Web Developers." http://xml.coverpages.org/ECMAScript-XML.html
"Industry Visionaries to Headline XML Europe 2003 Conference and Exposition. Experts from Sun Microsystems, Red Hat and OASIS to Be Featured in This Year's Keynote Lineup." http://xml.coverpages.org/XMLEurope2003-Keynotes.html
"OASIS and UN/CEFACT to Host ebXML Showcase at XML Europe 2003 in London. Conference Will Highlight ebXML Implementations Around the World." http://xml.coverpages.org/ebXML-Showcase20030505.html
"Announcing OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta." http://xml.coverpages.org/OpenOfficeOrgV11Beta.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
DBPL 2003. Ninth International Conference on Data Base Programming Languages. September 6 - 8, 2003. Potsdam, Germany. http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/suciu/DBPL/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#dbpl2003
WebDB 2003. Sixth International Workshop on The Web and Databases. June 12 - 13, 2003. San Diego, California, USA. http://www.cse.ogi.edu/webdb03/index.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#webdb03
SACMAT 2003. Eighth ACM Symposium On Access Control Models and Technologies. June 2 - 3, 2003. Villa Gallia, Como, Italy. http://www.acm.org/sigsac/sacmat http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#sacmat2003
Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003). May 20 - 24, 2003. Budapest, Hungary. http://www2003.org/ http://www.w3.org/2003/03/w3c-track03.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#www12
ebXML Showcase. May 5 - 6, 2003. Hilton London Metropole, London, UK. http://www.xmleurope.com/2003/ebxmlconference.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/ebXML-Showcase20030505.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#ebXML-Showcase2003
Semantic Web and Web Services. May 06, 2003. Helsinki, Finland. http://www.w3c.tut.fi/events/2003/0506swws/index.html
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