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Cover Pages Newsletter
July 01, 2003
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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 [Full abstract] http://xml.coverpages.org/covernewsTOP.html [Brief summary] http://xml.coverpages.org/covernews.xml [RSS]
IBM alphaWorks Releases Web Services for DB2 Cube Views.
Web Services for DB2 Cube Views has been released by IBM alphaWorks labs as the latest example of emerging "alpha code" technologies. Web Services for DB2 Cube Views is an XML SOAP application which provides access to multidimensional data stored in DB2. These Web services allow a client application to read data from the cubes and perform basic online analysis on multidimensional data and metadata through the Web using XPath and XML. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-30-b.html
Public Comment Draft for the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).
A draft "Common Alerting Protocol" (CAP) specification was released for public comment at the recent Thirteenth World Conference on Disaster Management. The draft was produced by the OASIS EM Messages and Notification Subcommittee and is supported by the Partnership for Public Warning (PPW). CAP is an open, non-proprietary standard for the exchange of emergency alerts and public warnings over data networks and computer-controlled warning systems. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-30-a.html
OASIS Member Companies Host SPML Identity Management Interoperability Event.
OASIS has announced a public demonstration of the Service Provisioning Markup Language Specification (SPML) Version 1.0 in an upcoming interoperability event. SPML is an XML-based framework for exchanging and administering user access rights and resource information across heterogeneous environments. Ten OASIS member companies will meet at the Catalyst Conference to demonstrate interoperability between SPML- conformant security software products. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-27-b.html
Six New Internet Drafts from the IETF Geographic Location/Privacy Working Group.
"Geopriv Location Object Markup Language" and "Geopriv Authorization Policies" are two of six new Internet Drafts published as candidate work by members of the IETF Geographic Location/Privacy (GEOPRIV) Working Group. This IETF WG was chartered to assess authorization, integrity, and privacy requirements relevant to IETF protocols used in location-aware contexts. XACML 1.0 is proposed for expressing Geopriv Location Object access policies. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-27-a.html
ebXML Registry Specifications Support Federation and Content Management Services.
The OASIS ebXML Registry TC has advanced its "Registry Services Specification" and "Registry Information Model" documents to CS level. V2.5 supports content based event subscription and notification; content management services; a distributed registry based upon a federated model, including federated query support and linking/replication of content/metadata among registries. XACML 1.0 provides for fine-grained access control and authorization. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-26-a.html
OASIS Members Form Materials Markup Language Technical Committee.
OASIS has announced the formation of a new Materials Markup Language Technical Committee. The goal of the MML TC is to enhance the e- business needs of materials producers, designers, fabricators, quality assurance, and failure analysis specialists by developing an XML-based standard markup language for the exchange of all types of materials technical information. NIST's MatML Schema specification will be evaluated by the new OASIS TC. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-06-25-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
"XML Network Management Interface." By Weijing Chen and Keith Allen (SBC Labs). IETF Netconf Working Group, Internet Draft. Reference: 'draft-weijing-netconf-interface-00'. June 2003, expires December 2003. 23 pages. This document describes XML network management interface between network managed system and network managing system. The XML network management interface is intended for use in diverse network environment where transport and data model requirements vary greatly. http://xml.coverpages.org/draft-weijing-netconf-interface-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Chen
"Systinet Boosts Secure Web Services. WASP Server 4.6 is Released." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (June 26, 2003). Systinet has announced general availablity of WASP Server for Java 4.6, the company's Web services infrastructure platform, featuring improved security. It now supports WS-Security. The product provides a platform for developing, running, and managing Web services applications. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/26/HNsystinet_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#WASP-ServerV46
"Software AG Enhances XML Document Storage. Searching Improved in Tamino." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (July 01, 2003). Software AG is announcing Version 4.1.4 of Tamino XML Server, featuring better search tools and an API for the C programming language. Tamino XML Server is a platform for storing, publishing, and exchanging XML documents. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/01/HNtamino_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#KrillTamino
"XML Query (XQuery) Requirements." Edited by Don Chamberlin (IBM Almaden Research Center), Peter Fankhauser (Infonyte GmbH) Massimo Marchiori (W3C/MIT/University of Venice), and Jonathan Robie (DataDirect). W3C Working Draft 27-June-2003. Produced for the W3C XML Query Working Group. "This document specifies goals, requirements, and usage scenarios for the W3C XML Query (XQuery) data model, algebra, and query language. It also includes, for each requirement, a corresponding status, indicating the current situation of the requirement in the XML Query family of specifications... The usage scenarios describe how XML queries may be used in various environments, and represent a wide range of activities and needs that are representative of the problem space to be addressed. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-requirements-20030627/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#XQueryReqs
"Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load and Save Specification Version 1.0." Edited by Johnny Stenback (Netscape) and Andy Heninger (IBM). W3C Working Draft 19-June-2003. This is a Last Call Working Draft released by W3C DOM Working Group; comments are welcome through 31-July-2003. The specification defines the Document Object Model Load and Save Level 3, a platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically load the content of an XML document into a DOM document and serialize a DOM document into an XML document. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-DOM-Level-3-LS-20030619 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#DOM-LS
"Gaining Perspective On Digital Identities." By Paul Desmond. In Network World (June 30, 2003). You can build it, you can buy it, but you can't escape the need for identity management... Identity management involves dealing with individuals in an online world. Ideally, it provides a single view of every individual across IT systems throughout the organization. http://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2003/security/0526secidmgmt.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Desmond
"Sun Drives New Security Offering." By Dennis Fisher. In eWEEK (June 30, 2003). Sun Microsystems Inc. and PeopleSoft Inc. are set to announce a new identity management solution that will tie human resources and other back-office systems into the IT security infrastructure. The goal: to help enterprises cut costs and maintain tighter control over who accesses their networks. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1140045,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Fisher
"Using the Jakarta Commons, Part 1." By Vikram Goyal. From O'Reilly ONJava.com (June 25, 2003). ['Ever find yourself thinking "Someone's surely solved this problem before?" That's the beauty of open source. In this first of three articles, Vikram Goyal explores the Jakarta Commons, mature and well-defined reusable Java components.'] The Jakarta Commons is a Jakarta subproject that creates and maintains independent packages unrelated to any other framework or product. The packages are a collection of components that serve small, useful purposes in their own right, and are usually server-centric. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/06/25/commons.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Goyal
"FTP Transport for Secure Peer-to-Peer Business Data Interchange over the Internet." By Terry Harding and Richard Scott (Cyclone Commerce). IETF EDIINT Working Group, Internet Draft. Reference: 'draft-ietf- ediint-as3-00.txt'. March 2003, expires October 2003. This document describes how to exchange structured business data securely using FTP transfer for XML, Binary, Electronic Data Interchange, (EDI - either the American Standards Committee X12 or UN/EDIFACT, Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport) or other data describable in MIME used for business to business data interchange. The data is packaged using standard MIME content-types. http://xml.coverpages.org/draft-ietf-ediint-as3-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#HardingFTP
"Management Standards: Keeping an Open Mind." By Denise Dubie. In Network World (June 30, 2003). Customer demand for open software is driving countless vendors, such as HP, IBM and Microsoft, to work more closely with industry organizations to develop common protocols, languages and industry standards for network and systems management. http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0630specialfocus.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Dubie
"New Java Aims to Simplify." By Stephen Shankland. In CNET News.com (June 30, 2003). Sun Microsystems has released a new version of its Java for desktop computers that aims to make the software faster, more familiar in appearance, and less daunting for nonprogrammers. The new version 1.4.2 will include buttons, menu bars, and other graphical elements that match the feel of Windows XP or the Gnome interface to Linux. http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1022406.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Shankland
"Web-based XML Editing with W3C XML Schema and XSLT, Part 2." By Ali Mesbah and Arjan Vermeij. From XML.com (June 25, 2003). Generating instance document-editing GUIs from schemas is a commonly requested feature; this week we have a follow-up to Ali Mesbah's first article about using XSLT and W3C XML schema to create HTML GUIs for editing. This latest installment covers what was missed from the first part: how to create a new document from scratch, and how to add elements into a document. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/06/25/editing.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Mesbah
"Finding IDs." By John E. Simpson. From XML.com (June 25, 2003). In this installment of his monthly XML Q&A column John explains how to use XPath with XML IDs. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/06/25/qa.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#SimpsonIDs
"How (Not) to Grow a Technology." By Kendall Grant Clark. From XML.com (June 25, 2003). Kendall Clark ponders how to grow a technology, especially an XML one. Do you opt for death-by-committee, or obscurity via community chaos? Clark covers the new community initiative afoot to throw away the troubled RSS specifications and reinvent one which has true consensus. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/06/25/deviant.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#KGClark-RSS
"Software Patent Vote Delayed." By Matthew Broersma. In CNET News.com (June 30, 2003). The European Parliament, facing mounting controversy over U.S.-style software-patenting legislation, has delayed a key vote until September 2003. A Monday vote on a controversial software patents proposal in the European Parliament has been put back amidst criticism that the legislation would institute a U.S.-style patent regime that would be detrimental to European small businesses and open-source software developers. http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1022181.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#BroersmaEP
"Interview: Java Apps Revolve Around Sun. Sun's Rich Green, Jeff Anders Discuss Project Relator, JavaFirst." By Mark Jones and Jeff Anders. In InfoWorld (June 29, 2003). From Project Relator to an internal program called JavaFirst, Sun believes it's time developers started treating mobile devices like real computers. Mark Jones, InfoWorld's executive news editor, spoke with Sun's Rich Green, vice president of developer tools, and Jeff Anders, group marketing manager, at June's JavaOne show. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/29/HNsuninterview_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#ProjectRelator
"The Future of Mozilla Application Development." By David Boswell and Brian King. From O'Reilly Mozilla DevCenter (June 27, 2003). Recently, mozilla.org announced a major update to its development roadmap. Some of the changes in the new document represent a fundamental shift in the direction and goals of the Mozilla community. In this article, David Boswell and Brian King analyze the new roadmap, and demonstrate how to convert an existing XPFE-based application into an application that uses the new XUL toolkit. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mozilla/2003/06/27/mozilla.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#BoswellMozilla
"Architecting Security for Web Services." By Mark O'Neill (CTO, Vordel Limited). In JavaPro Magazine [Fawcette Technical Publications] Volume 7, Number 8 (August 2003). The author examines the security challenges of Web services and explains how to address them with security architecture, including what it can offer going forward when XML traverses firewalls. Three broad architectural options are available for Web services security: XML Gateway, Interceptor, and custom coded. http://www.ftponline.com/javapro/2003_08/magazine/features/moneill/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#ONeill
"Producing Multiple Outputs from an XSL Transformation." By Oleg Tkachenko (Software Engineer, MultiConn International Ltd). In [Microsoft] Extreme XML (June 23, 2003). 17 pages. The author explains how you can postprocess XSL transformation results into multiple documents using the XslTransform and XmlTextWriter classes in the .NET Framework. The idea behind implementing multiple outputs by postprocessing is to introduce an additional custom layer, where further transformation occurs between the XSLT processor and consumer of the XSL Transformation results. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnexxml/html/xml06162003.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Tkachenko
"Unlocking Information in Microsoft Office 2003 Using XML." By Chris Kunicki and Charles Maxson (OfficeZealot.com), and Frank C. Rice (Microsoft Corporation). Posted June 30, 2003; created May 30, 2003. 17 pages. This article provides a technical review of the Unlocking Information sample solution which comes with the Microsoft Office 2003 Beta 2 Content Development Kit (CDK). The sample is a Web-based application built using ASP.NET to show how Microsoft Office 2003 documents can be processed externally of their respective applications. Additionally, the sample demonstrates how Office documents can be accessed or repurposed for uses that range beyond Microsoft Office. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dno2k3ta/html/odc_unlock.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#MSUnlocking
"BizTalk Server 2004 Stakes New Territory." By Jim Rapoza. In eWEEK (June 30, 2003). The core piece of Microsoft's forthcoming Jupiter e- business suite, BizTalk Server 2004, looks like it will also be one of the premier business process management platforms available. Microsoft's upgrade offers many significant improvements, including finally supporting the XML Schema standard, which should expedite business process integration. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1141582,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#RapozaBizTalk
"Smooth Talkers: Speech Integration Technology Gives Customers and Employees Convenient Access to Back-End Data." By John Edwards. In CIO Magazine (July 2003). Emerging Technology. A pair of emerging technologies (VoiceXML and SALT) are also helping to advance voice integration. Both specifications rely on Web technology to make it easier to develop and deploy speech integration applications. VoiceXML is an XML extension for creating telephone-based, speech-user interfaces. SALT (Speech Application Language Tags) provides extensions to commonly used Web-based markup languages, principally HTML and XHTML. http://www.cio.com/archive/070103/et_article.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Edwards
"Memorandum for Multi-Domain PKI Interoperability." By Masaki Shimaoka (ECOM Trust.net Co., Ltd; Japan PKI Forum). IETF Network Working Group. Request for Comments, Draft. Reference: 'draft-shimaoka- multidomain-pki-00.txt'. June 2003. 14 pages. This memo is used to share the awareness necessary to deployment of multi-domain PKI. The scope of this memo is to establish trust relationship and interoperability between plural PKI domains. http://xml.coverpages.org/draft-shimaoka-multidomain-pki-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#PKI-Interop
"SPML Eases Information Exchange." By Darran Rolls (Waveset Technologies, Inc). In Network World (June 30, 2003). Provisioning is the process of managing the allocation of system resources to employees, partners and contractors as part of identity management. The Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) is an XML-based framework for exchanging user, resource and service provisioning information between organizations. http://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2003/0630techupdate.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#RollsSPML0630
"The Open Applications Group Integration Specification. OAGIS is a Practical Use of XML to Enable Integration." By Michael Rowell (Chief Architect, Open Applications Group). From IBM developerWorks, XML zone. June 30, 2003. The Open Applications Group Integration Specification (OAGIS) is an effort to provide a canonical business language for information integration. It uses XML as the common alphabet for defining business messages, and for identifying business processes (scenarios) that allow businesses and business applications to communicate. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-oagis/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Rowell
"Microsoft to Discuss ID Management Plans." By Paul Roberts. In InfoWorld (June 30, 2003). Microsoft will be making announcements about its strategy for managing user identities that could well end speculation about its plans for implementing federated identity technology into its products. A spokeswoman for Oblix said that Oblix would be part of Microsoft's plan. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/30/HNmsid_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#RobertsMS
"Web Services Taking Root in the Enterprise." By Peter Coffee. In eWEEK (June 30, 2003). eWEEK Labs recently conducted a roundtable discussion on Web services. Moderated by Technology Editor Peter Coffee, the roundtable comprised key players in several areas of the Web services space. The discussion centered on where Web services are as a technology, where the industry is in achieving effective consensus on standards, and how the business models are developing for using those standards and technologies. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1141561,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#Coffee
"XML and Content Management Systems." By James Robertson (Step Two Designs). From Step Two Designs' KM Column (July 2003). With the rise in popularity of both XML and content management systems (CMS), an increasing number of tenders are specifying 'CMS must be built using XML'. This article explores the role of XML in the context of content management systems, focusing specifically on the business issues. http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_xmlandcms/index.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#RobertsonCMS
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"Software AG's Tamino XML Server Offers Enhanced Support for Non-XML Documents. Tamino XML Server Version 4.1.4 Provides Indexer to Better Search Metadata for Microsoft Office and Sun StarOffice Documents." http://xml.coverpages.org/TaminoXMLServer414.html
"M-Tech Announces Availability of ID-Synch v2.0. Industry's Most Flexible Access Management Solution Delivers Broadest Functionality." http://xml.coverpages.org/MTechID-SynchV20.html
"Meridian Project Systems Introduces New Business Process Management (BPM) Solution. Proliance is a Revolutionary Enterprise BPM Solution for Real Estate and Construction." http://xml.coverpages.org/ProlianceAEC.html
"Systinet Announces WASP Server for Java, 4.6 With Full Support For WS-Security. WASP Provides Industry's Best Web Services Security, Performance and Interoperability." http://xml.coverpages.org/WASPJavaV46.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
AIIM 2004 Conference. March 8 - 10, 2004. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY, USA. http://www.aiim2003.com/speakers/ http://www.aiim2003.com/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#aiim2004
Web Services Edge 2004 East International Conference & Expo. February 24 - 26, 2004. Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA, USA. http://www.sys-con.com/webservicesedge2004east http://www.sys-con.com/webservicesedge2004east/papers.cfm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#wsEdge2004East
XML Asia 2003. "XML: Empowering Economies." October 6 - 7, 2003. Seoul, Korea. http://www.idealliance.org/events_upcoming.asp#xmlasia http://www.ecif.or.kr/english/greeting.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#XMLAsia2003
Oxford CSW XML Summer School 2003. Fourth Annual Event. July 27 - 31, 2003. Wadham College, Oxford, UK. http://www.xmlsummerschool.com/ http://www.xmlsummerschool.com/Programme.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#xmlSummerSchool2003
First European Workshop on Object Orientation and Web Service (EOOWS). July 21 - 25, 2003. Darmstadt, Germany. http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/g.piccinelli/eoows.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#eoows2003
SVG Open 2003. July 13 - 18, 2003. Second Annual Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics. Westin Bayshore Resort and Marina, Vancouver, BC, Canada. http://www.w3.org/News/2003#item109 http://xml.coverpages.org/SVGOpenConference2003.html http://www.svgopen.org/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#SVG-Open2003
O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention (OSCON) 2003. "Extend and Embrace." July 7 - 11, 2003. Portland Marriot Downtown, Portland, Oregon, USA. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2003/ http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200301.html#clip2003-01-21-d http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#oscon2003
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