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Cover Pages Newsletter
May 13, 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
OASIS Members Form Web Application Security Technical Committee.
A new OASIS Web Application Security Technical Committee will attempt to unite industry consensus and provide standards for web security vulnerabilities. The TC will extend the work of the Open Web Application Security (OWASP) VulnXML project that has been established for over a year. The TC will develop a classification scheme for web security vulnerabilities, threat and risk models, and an XML schema to describe web security conditions. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-13-b.html
W3C Index of Translations Showcases RDF and Internationalization Technologies.
W3C has announced a new RDF application which generates static XHTML documents and dynamic views for indexes of translated W3C Technical Reports. Showcasing W3C Semantic Web, XML, and internationalization technologies, data for volunteer translations of W3C technical reports and related documents are now maintained in RDF encoded in XML. The application generates XHTML and RDF-encoded XML files using Python scripts and the RDFLib module. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-13-a.html
FAO's AgMES Project Releases a New Application Profile for Encoding Metadata.
A new AgMES-AGRIS Application Profile has been published. An initiative of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, the AgMES (Agricultural Metadata Element Set) project addresses issues of semantic standards in the domain of agriculture with respect to description, resource discovery, interoperability, and data exchange. The AGRIS Profile builds upon Dublin Core. The AP includes an XML DTD; XML and RDF Schema are under development. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-12-a.html
IBM's Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language (EPAL).
Research at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory has led to the publication of an Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language (EPAL) specification. EPAL is a formal language to specify fine-grained enterprise privacy policies. It concentrates on the core privacy authorization while abstracting from all deployment details such as data model or user-authentication. EPAL will be discussed at a June 2003 W3C P3P and Enterprise Privacy Policy Workshop. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-09-a.html
Energy Companies Demonstrate Automated Electronic Invoicing Using PIDX XML Transaction Standards.
Unocal, Schlumberger, and Digital Oilfield have announced the successful automated electronic exchange of invoicing information as an industry milestone. The test made use of the Petroleum Industry Data Exchange (PIDX) XML Transaction Standards and RNIF. Unocal received and processed an invoice from Schlumberger through Digital Oilfield's OpenInvoice hosted application. PIDX is the American Petroleum Institute's committee on Electronic Business. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-08-a.html
W3C Publishes SOAP Version 1.2 as a Proposed Recommendation.
W3C has advanced SOAP Version 1.2 to Proposed Recommendation status, and the W3C XML Protocol Working Group has issued a request for final review of the four-part specification. SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment; it provides a standardized XML-based solution for data transport. SOAP 1.2 is designed to work seamlessly with W3C XML schemas and XML Namespaces. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-07-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
"Thinking XML: The Commons of Creativity. How Machine-Readable Licenses Can Foster Creative Output and Exchange." By Uche Ogbuji (Principal Consultant, Fourthought, Inc). From IBM developerWorks, XML Zone. May 12, 2003. Artists independent of big media concerns seek to collaborate with others and make their work more widely available. Creative Commons, introduced in this article, seeks to address this need by providing a way to express copyright license terms that are both human-readable and machine-readable. The machine-readable form uses RDF and thus makes available the network effects that have been covered throughout this 'Thinking XML' column. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think18.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#OgbujiCC
"Dynamic Web Services." By Atul Saini (Fiorano Software). In EAI Journal Volume 5, Number 4 (April 2003), pages 17-19. The new enterprise architecture is one that is service-based, implemented on top of a fully distributed, peer-to-peer, event-driven system. A services operating platform (SOP) allows enterprises to create a unified computing infrastructure. http://www.eaijournal.com/PDF/Apr03Saini.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Saini
"Web Services Security, Part 3." By Bilal Siddiqui. From O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com (May 13, 2003). In part 3 of a series, the author discusses XML-based authentication and the sharing of authentication information across different applications, known as Single Sign-On (SSO). The Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML) from OASIS helps reach this goal by wrapping authentication information in an XML format. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/05/13/security.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#SiddiquiOReilly3
"Using Python, Jython, and Lucene to Search Outlook Email." By Jon Udell. From O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com (May 13, 2003). Borrowing heavily from examples supplied by Mark Hammond's SpamBayes, Udell creates a script to extract Outlook mail to a bunch of files that can be fed to a standalone indexer. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/05/13/email.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#UdellJython
"Auto Industry Group to Upgrade Supply Chain With XML." By Todd R. Weiss. In ComputerWorld (May 13, 2003). Auto industry e-services exchange Covisint has launched an IT consortium that aims to replace existing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messaging with more flexible and less costly XML systems. http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/xml/story/0,10801,81193,00.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Weiss
"Auto Consortium Aims For Lower-Cost Data Messaging." By Rick Whiting. In InformationWeek (May 12, 2003). Covisint and a group of major automakers and suppliers are preparing to test a system based on XML and other standards as an alternative to EDI. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9900025 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Whiting
"Transparently Cache XSL Transformations with JAXP. Boost Performance and Retain Usability by Implementing Implicit Caching Inside Transformer Factories." By Alexey Valikov. In JavaWorld (May 02, 2003). Using a stylesheet cache on top of normal JAXP (Java API for XML Parsing) is often not convenient or suitable for pure JAXP users. This article introduces the idea of pushing cache functionality inside transformer factory implementations, making cache usage absolutely transparent. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2003/jw-0502-xsl.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Valikov
"Jini Starter Kit 2.0 Tightens Jini's Security Framework. Introducing Jini's New Security Features." By Frank Sommers. In JavaWorld (May 09, 2003). Security for distributed systems based on mobile Java code is the theme of Sun Microsystems' new Jini Starter Kit, JSK 2.0. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2003/jw-0509-jiniology.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Sommers
"XML Features of Oracle 8i and 9i." By Simon Hume. From WebReference.com (May 10, 2003). Database specialist Simon Hume chips in with an introduction to the XML features of the most recent Oracle database versions. http://www.webreference.com/xml/column81/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Hume
"Business Process with BPEL4WS: Learning BPEL4WS, Part 7. Adding Correlation and Fault Handling to a Process." By Rania Khalaf and William A. Nagy (Software Engineers, IBM TJ Watson Research Center). From IBM developerWorks, Web services. April 22, 2003. The authors extend the simple BPEL4WS process that they have been working with in the previous articles by adding the ability to communicate with a pre- existing process instance and to capture faults which may occur during its execution. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-bpelcol7/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#BPEL4WScol7
"DB Updates Ease Web Services." By Lisa Vaas. In eWEEK (May 12, 2003). Best-of-breed XML database developers Ipedo Inc., Sonic Software Corp. and Sleepycat Software Inc. are enhancing their respective native XML database software to make it easier for enterprises to use and manage XML data in Web services environments. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1080488,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#VaasDB
"Berkeley DB XML: An Embedded XML Database." By Paul Ford. From XML.com (May 07, 2003). For many years the open source Berkeley DB libraries have been a popular choice for embedded database applications; it has been so ubiquitously used that chances are, you rely on some software product that embeds Berkeley DB. SleepyCat, the maintainers of Berkeley DB, announce that they will be releasing an XML-aware version of their database software. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/05/07/bdb.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#BerkeleyDBXML
"XSLT 2 and Delimited Lists." By Bob DuCharme. From XML.com (May 07, 2003). The author looks at the upcoming new version of XSLT, XSLT 2.0, and in particular, its support for tokenizing strings. Using the development branch of the popular XSLT engine Saxon, Bob shows how an SVG polygon path can be processed with XSLT 2.0. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/05/07/tr.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#ducharmeLists
"Internationalizing the URI." By Kendall Grant Clark. From XML.com (May 07, 2003). It appears that development of the core XML specification itself is held up by the need to incorporate Internationalized Resource Identifiers, which are destined to supsersede URIs. Kendall Clark also comments on the recent release of new XQuery specifications from the W3C. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/05/07/deviant.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#KGClarkI18N
"Implementation Strategies for WS-ReliableMessaging. How WS- ReliableMessaging Can Interact With Other Middleware Communications Systems." By Christopher Ferris, John Ibbotson, and Tony Storey (IBM). From IBM developerWorks, Web services. This paper discusses considerations for realizing robustness, integrity, and performance required for reliable messaging implementations using the recently released WS-ReliableMessaging specification and describes the role of message oriented middleware to address these. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-rmimp/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Ferris
"Address Data Content Standard Public Review Draft." Subcommittee on Cultural and Demographic Data, [US] Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). Version 2. April 17, 2003. 41 pages. The purpose of this standard is to facilitate the exchange of address information. The Address Data Content Standard (the Standard) simplifies the address data exchange process by providing a method for documenting the content of address information. http://xml.coverpages.org/FGDC-AddressStandardV2-20030417.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#FGDC-Address
"Registering Web Services in an ebXML Registry." By Joseph M. Chiusano (Booz Allen Hamilton) and Farrukh Najmi (Sun Microsystems). Prepared for the OASIS ebXML Registry Technical Committee. Approved Technical Note. Version 1.0. 12-March-2003, updated May 7, 2003. 16 pages. This document describes the current best practice for registering Web services in an ebXML Registry. It conforms to the OASIS/ebXML Registry Information Model (ebRIM) specification v3.0 and to the OASIS/ebXML Registry Services Specification (ebRS), v3.0. http://xml.coverpages.org/RegisteringWebServices.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#WS-ebXML
"W3C Cleans Up SOAP 1.2 Specification. Latest Version Awaits Final Review." By Scarlet Pruitt. In InfoWorld (May 07, 2003). W3C has released the proposed recommendation for the SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) 1.2 specification, saying that the protocol is cleaned up and in a strong position for final review. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/07/HNsoap_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#PruittSOAP
"W3C Brushes Up SOAP Standard." By Martin LaMonica. In CNET News.com (May 07, 2003). Standards body the World Wide Web Consortium said Wednesday that it is close to finalizing an upgrade to an important Web services protocol called SOAP. The SOAP Version 1.2 spec is now a W3C Proposed Recommendation. http://news.com.com/2100-1013_3-1000262.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#LaMonicaSOAP
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"Systinet WASP is Reference Implementation for Proposed Recommendation of W3C SOAP 1.2 Specification." http://xml.coverpages.org/WASP-SOAP12.html
"GXS' Global Product Catalogue Service Achieves Certification for UCCnet Foundation Services 2.1. GXS to Provide Global Synchronization of Detailed Product Attributes through Automatic Registration of Vendor Products with UCCnet's GLOBALregistry." http://xml.coverpages.org/GXS-GPC.html
"Corel and LightSpeed Software Deliver Integrated Content Management Solution for Technical Publishing. Joint Offering Provides a Seamless Way to Easily Create, Manage and Reuse Structured Content for Multi- Channel Publishing." http://xml.coverpages.org/Corel-LightSpeed.html
"Novell exteNd Application Server 5. Powerful J2EE and Web Services Development and Deployment Platform Now Shipping." http://xml.coverpages.org/Novell-exteNd-AS5.html
"Covisint and Consortium of Automotive Leaders to Develop Data Messaging Solution. Product Will Be a Cost Effective Alternative to EDI." http://xml.coverpages.org/CovisintHub.html
"Reuters Joins RIXML.org's Efforts to Facilitate the Adoption and Implementation of its Standard for Investment Research. RIXML.org Appoints New Committee Co-Chairs. Industry Organization Establishes Adoption Committee to Help Firms Utilize RIXML." http://xml.coverpages.org/Reuters-RIXML.html
"Ipedo Enhancements Boost Award-Winning XML Information Hub. Content Conversion, Auto-Organization, Universal XQuery, Web Services Views Reduce Cost and Complexity of Information Delivery." http://xml.coverpages.org/IpedoHub200305.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
Sixth International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language (UML 2003). "Modeling Languages and Applications." October 20 - 24, 2003. Fort Mason Center and Holiday Inn Golden Gateway Hotel. San Francisco, California, USA. http://ase.arc.nasa.gov/uml03/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#uml2003
2003 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining (ATEM 2003). September 22, 2003. Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia. http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Efabio/ATEM03/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#atem2003
Petroleum Industry Data Exchange (PIDX) Europe Meeting 2003. July 3, 2003. Paris, France. http://committees.api.org/business/pidx/events.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#pidxEurope2003
The Third ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2003). May 27 - 31, 2003. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. http://www.jcdl.org/jcdl03/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#JCDL2003
Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003). May 20 - 24, 2003. Budapest, Hungary. http://www2003.org/ http://www2003.org/programme.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#www12
Society for Technical Communication (STC) 50th Annual Conference. May 18 - 21, 2003. Wyndham Anatole Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA. http://www.stc.org/50thConf/index.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#stc2003
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