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Cover Pages Newsletter
July 08, 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]
Liberty Alliance Publishes Business Requirements and Guidelines for Identity Federation.
The Liberty Alliance Project has released "Business Guidelines: Raising the Business Requirements for Wide Scale Identity Federation", described as the first in a series of documents the Alliance is developing to provide global businesses guidance on deploying federated identity solutions. Principal business requirements identified as critical to identity federation include mutual confidence, risk management, liability assessment, and compliance. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-07-08-c.html
Web Services Federation Language Provides Federated Identity Mapping Mechanisms.
A new "Web Services Federation Language (WS-Federation)" specification has been published which defines mechanisms used to enable identity, account, attribute, authentication, and authorization federation across different trust realms. WS-Federation with its two supporting profiles extends the WS-Trust model to allow attributes and pseudonyms to be integrated into the token issuance mechanism to provide federated identity mapping mechanisms. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-07-08-b.html
RealNetworks Releases Source Code for Synchronized Multimedia (SMIL).
RealNetworks Inc. has announced its contribution of SMIL source code to developers in the Helix Community. Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is a W3C Recommendation which defines an XML-based language that allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations. With the SMIL 2.0 open source code and the Helix DNA Client, Helix developers can support the display of complex multimedia presentations in their products. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-07-08-a.html
OpenI18N Releases Locale Data Markup Language Specification (LDML) Version 1.0.
An announcement from the Common XML Locale Repository Project describes the version 1.0 release of the Locale Data Markup Language Specification (LDML), designed to facilitate standardized data and coding methods for software globalization. The Free Standards Group's LADE Workgroup has produced the specification as part of its goal to devise a general XML format for the exchange of linguistically and culturally sensitive (locale) information. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-07-03-a.html
Microsoft Announces Release of Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003.
Microsoft has announced the delivery of Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003. MIIS enables the integration and management of identity information across multiple repositories, systems, and platforms. It augments Active Directory by managing provisioning and synchronizing identity information, including passwords, and brokering changes to identity information by automatically detecting updates and sharing the changes across computing systems. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-07-02-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
"Business Technology: Timing Is Everything In Making Jump To RFID." In InformationWeek (July 07, 2003). Speaking at the recent Retail Systems Conference, Mike DiYeso, chief operating officer of the Uniform Code Council (UCC) urged the embrace of the rapidly emergent technology of RFID, or radio-frequency identification. Some 30 years ago UCC began pushing universal product codes that have since become ubiquitous in things like scannable bar codes. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10818110 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#EvansRFID
"World Wide Web Consortium Process Document." Edited by Ian Jacobs (W3C). Produced by the W3C Advisory Board and reviewed by the W3C Members and Team. June 18, 2003. The revised W3C Process Document describes the organizational structure of the W3C and the processes related to the responsibilities and functions they exercise to enable W3C to accomplish its mission. http://www.w3.org/2003/06/Process-20030618/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#W3CProcess
"Tools for the Code Generation." By Johanna Ambrosio. In Application Development Trends (July 01, 2003). Model-Driven Architecture, or MDA, embodies the conundrum: Is the glass half full or is it half empty? Even though the MDA standard is still evolving, many products claim to be compliant with it and early adopters are developing apps with them. http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7850 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Ambrosio
"CSS3 Basic User Interface Module." Edited by Tantek Çelik (Microsoft Corporation). W3C Last Call Working Draft 3-July-2003. CSS3 is a set of modules, divided up and profiled in order to simplify the specification, and to allow implementors the flexibility of supporting the particular modules appropriate for their implementations. This module describes selectors and CSS properties which enable authors to style user interface related states, element fragments, properties and values. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-ui-20030703 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#CSS3UI
"Microsoft, IBM Advance Web Services Specification. Security is Focus of Proposal." By Ed Scannell. In InfoWorld (July 08, 2003). Building on their previous efforts to create a framework for producing secure and interoperable Web services, IBM, Microsoft, and several other leading software companies announce a WS-Federation specification intended to help corporate users simplify identity management. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/08/HNnewwebspec_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#ScannellWSFed
"ID Management Sparks Catalyst. Microsoft, IBM Tackle Directories, Privacy." By Brian Fonseca. In InfoWorld (July 07, 2003). Identity management and the growing importance of directories in that paradigm are featured in new vendor products being unveiled at this week's Burton Group Catalyst Conference in San Francisco. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/07/26NNcatalyst_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#FonsecaIDCata
"In the Service of Cooperation." By Kendall Grant Clark. From O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com (July 08, 2003). Kendall Grant Clark discusses BPEL4WS and its competitors, WS-Choreography and DAML-S. He feels it is unlikely that BPEL could crowd out all other competitors because it is unlikely that any single technology could adequately fill every niche of such a variegated space. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/07/08/ws-deviant.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#KGClarkCooperation
"Vox Populi: Web Services From the Grassroots." By Rich Salz. From O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com (July 08, 2003). "Last month, Sam Ruby threw the blogging world into a tizzy when he created a wiki to serve as the home for a new syndication format and protocol. Salz examines the project 'Necho' (aka 'Echo', Pie'), looking at tradeoffs in XML and web services design. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/07/08/salz.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#SalzWS
"Managing the Web Services Flow. Confluent Core 3.0 Provides Centralized Control of Distributed Components." By Phillip J. Windley. In (July 03, 2003). Core 3.0 from Confluent Software is a Web services manager that tackles the 'decentralized components' problem by providing a single point of configuration for far-flung Web service components. The architecture of Confluent Core is as distributed as the services that it manages. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/03/26TCconfluent_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Windley
"Burton Group Adds Web-Services Group." By Charles Babcock. In InformationWeek (July 08, 2003). Application Platform Strategies, a new business unit of the Burton Group, will focus on Web services. The Application Platform Strategies unit is being added to Burtons two existing units: Directory and Security Strategies, and Network and Telecom Strategies. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12800020 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Babcock
"Debunking SAML Myths and Misunderstandings. Getting to Know the Security Assertion Markup Language." By Frank Cohen (Founder, PushToTest). From IBM developerWorks, XML zone. July 08, 2003. At the beginning of 2003, the OASIS group approved the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) specification. In this article the author describes and debunks some of the myths and misunderstandings surrounding SAML. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-samlmyth.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#CohenSAML
"ID Management Poised for Next Stage." By John Fontana. In Network World (July 07, 2003). Existing identity management practices and standards in combination with Web services security protocols will provide needed protection to support distributed computing between corporations and their partners. That concept was one of the main themes at the annual Burton Group Catalyst Conference. http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0707catalyst.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#FontanaID
"RSS Killed the Infoglut Star. At Last, A Way to Manage the Internet Information Overload." By Chad Dickerson. In InfoWorld (July 03, 2003). Dickerson says: "Something profound is happening with the delivery of information online with tools that leverage RSS. When I started using an RSS newsreader daily, I began to spend almost no time surfing to keep up with current technology information, and I was suddenly able to manage a large body of incoming information with incredible efficiency." http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/03/26OPconnection_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Dickerson
"Access to Property Records is a Hit." By Dibya Sarkar. In Federal Computer Week (July 07, 2003). By using XML to integrate its legacy database of property records into a new Web-based application, Sacramento County's Clerk-Recorder division is providing the e-ROSI Recorders Online Systems Index to lenders, banks, title companies and others, allowing them to confirm the recording of documents via the Internet. http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2003/0707/web-sac-07-07-03.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#SarkarProperty
"Web Services Are Poised To Change Business." By Tony Kontzer. In InformationWeek (July 01, 2003). While Web services are the odds-on favorite to help create business agility, IT departments aren't designed to change as quickly as the companies they support. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10817892 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Kontzer
"Grid Computing Edges Into the Mainstream." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (July 02, 2003). The Globus Project has announced the official release of the Globus Toolkit 3.0 (GT3), which melds the worlds of grid computing and Web services and helps bring grid computing into more mainstream, commercial applications. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1172065,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#TaftGlobus
"XML Publishing with Cocoon 2, Part 1." By David Cummings and Collin VanDyck. From O'Reilly ONJava.com (July 02, 2003). "Apache Cocoon is essentially an XML-publishing framework; it facilitates the generation, transformation, and serialization (delivery) of XML content. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/07/02/cocoon.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#CummingsCocoon
"Active Intermediaries Can Halt the Finger-Pointing. XML Data Flows and Active Intermediaries Fundamentally Alter the IT Political Landscape." By Jon Udell. In InfoWorld (July 03, 2003). XML data flows fundamentally alter the political landscape of IT, shifting the locus of control away from the service endpoints and into the fabric of the network itself. Active intermediation is the ideal way to monitor and enforce a corporate or federal policy. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/03/26FEpipelinecontrol_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#UdellAI
"[Easy Change of Address] One-Stop Shop." By Chee Sing Chan. In ComputerWorld Hong Kong (July 02, 2003). The HKSAR government's simple ECOA service allows citizens to update their contact addresses to 12 government departments and two business organizations simultaneously from a single Web site. http://www.idg.com.hk/cw/readstory.asp?aid=20030702004 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Chan
"Bill Seeks Free Access to Federally Funded Research. Would Remove Copyright Protection from Publicly Funded Material." By Grant Gross. In InfoWorld (July 02, 2003). Scientific research paid for by the U.S. government would be required to be given free to the public under a bill introduced in US Congress by Representative Martin Olav Sabo, a Minnesota Democrat. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/02/HNscience_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#GrossResearch
"Self-Enhancing Stylesheets." By Manfred Knobloch. From XML.com (July 02, 2003). Developing new stylesheets can be a chore, and it would be nice if you could tell your stylesheet to trace which tags from the source document are not yet processed; XSLT version 2.0 can be used to do this. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/07/02/xslt2.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Knobloch
"BPEL: Make Your Services Flow. Composing Web Services into Business Flow." By Doron Sherman (CTO, Collaxa, Inc). In Web Services Journal Volume 3, Issue 7 (July 2003), pages 16-21. BPEL, a standard process flow grammar, provides a new foundation for integration. It empowers developers to tie transactional services, events, and user tasks into easy-to-adapt business flows. This new genre of process-driven applications moves enterprises closer to the realization of the agile real-time enterprise. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/article.cfm?id=589 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#ShermanBPEL
"Using BPEL: What IT Managers Need to Know." By Derick Townsend (COO, OpenStorm Software), Ryan Cairns (CTO, OpenStorm Software), and Christoph Schittko (Momentum Software). In Web Services Journal Volume 3, Issue 7 (July 2003), pages 26-28. Business Process Execution Language for Web services (BPEL4WS or BPEL) has quickly become the dominant specification to standardize integration logic and process automation between Web services. It has the potential to standardize application-to-application integration and extend integration to previously isolated systems; BPEL enables a whole new level of corporate agility as it relates to integrating and switching external vendors and services. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/article.cfm?id=591 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#TownsendBPEL
"Web Services Orchestration and Choreography. A Look at WSCI and BPEL4WS." By Chris Peltz (HP Developer Resources Organization). In Web Services Journal Volume 3, Issue 7 (July 2003), pages 30-35. With 4 figures. "Web Service Choreography Interface (WSCI) and Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) use orchestration and choreography to reduce the inherent complexity of connecting Web services together. WSCI takes more of a collaborative and choreographed approach, requiring each participant in the message exchange to define a WSCI interface. WSCI and BPEL4WS both meet many of the same technical requirements, providing strong support for persistence and correlation to manage conversations. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/article.cfm?id=592 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Peltz
"Twenty-First Century Business Architecture. The Future is Here." By Howard Smith (Europe CTO, Computer Sciences Corporation; Co-chair, Business Process Management Initiative) and Peter Fingar (Executive Partner, the Greystone Group). In Web Services Journal Volume 3, Issue 7 (July 2003), pages 10-14. By placing business processes on center stage, as first class citizens in computing, corporations can gain the capabilities they need to innovate, reenergize performance, and deliver the value today's markets demand. Business process management (BPM) systems discover what you do, and then manage the life cycle of improvement and optimization in a way that translates directly to operation. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/article.cfm?id=588 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#SmithBPM
"Introducing WS-Transaction Part II. Using Business Activities." By Dr. Jim Webber and Dr. Mark Little (Arjuna Technologies Limited). In Web Services Journal Volume 3, Issue 7 (July 2003), pages 6-9. Previous articles introduced WS-Coordination, a generic coordination framework for Web services, and showed how the WS-Coordination protocol can be augmented to provide atomic transactionality for Web services via the WS-Transaction Atomic Transaction model. This article looks at support for extended transactions across Web services, showing how these can be used to provide the basis for higher-level business process management and workflow technology. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/article.cfm?id=587 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#WS-Transaction2
"Microsoft Revamps ID Management Offering. Windows Server Updated." By Brian Fonseca and Paul Roberts. In InfoWorld (July 02, 2003). Microsoft has placed a definitive stake in the lucrative identity management market by unveiling a revamped version of its Meta Directory product, dubbed Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003. Microsoft also introduced 'Identity and Access Management Solution Accelerator,' a new set of prescriptive guidelines created with Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP to help customers build and test identity management infrastructures. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/02/HNidmanage_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#FonsecaMIIS
"Microsoft Throws Hat Into ID Management Ring." By Dennis Fisher. In eWEEK (July 01, 2003). Microsoft Corporation is set to "announce its new Identity Integration Server 2003, a stand-alone identity management server meant for large enterprise deployments. The new offering is Microsoft's first real jump into the ID management market and comes at a time when a gaggle of vendors are all fighting for sales and name recognition in the emerging space. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1163269,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Fisher
"Microsoft Overhauls Directories for ID Management." By Kevin Murphy. In Computer Business Review Online (July 02, 2003). Microsoft Corp is putting a renewed focus on identity management and simplicity in the latest versions of two directory server products. The company will start shipping a simplified Active Directory deployment option, as well as a renamed and feature-expanded edition of Microsoft Metadata Services (MMS), both designed for Windows Server 2003. http://www.cbronline.com/news http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Murphy
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"New Burton Group Research Provides Practical Advice to Technologists Implementing Application Platform Standardization. New Application Platform Strategies Research & Advisory Service Focuses on the Evolution of Enterprise Application Architectures." http://xml.coverpages.org/BurtonGroupAppStrat.html
"Liberty Alliance Releases Business Requirements and Guidelines for Wide Scale Identity Federation. Business Consortium to Create 'Source Library' for Business Partners to Securely and Responsibly Exchange Identity Information Beyond Company Boundaries." http://xml.coverpages.org/LibertyAllianceGuidance.html
"Novell Releases Roadmap for Secure Identity Management Success. Novell Offers New Architectural Guide to Help Customers Understand and Logically Deploy the Essential Building Blocks of Secure Identity Management." http://xml.coverpages.org/NovellSecurityRoadmap.html
"Novell Helps Business Partners Securely Share Identity Information on the Web. Novell Ships the SAML Extension for Novell iChain, a Federated Identity Management Service." http://xml.coverpages.org/Novell-iChain.html
"RealNetworks Releases Industry Standard SMIL Source Code to Helix Community. Helix Developers Can Now Easily Create Helix DNA Client Products Supporting Synchronized Multimedia." http://xml.coverpages.org/RealNetworksSMIL.html
"Business Layers to Present SPML at Burton Catalyst North America 2003. Founding Member of Provisioning Services Technical Committee to Present SPML in Conjunction with OASIS Ratification." http://xml.coverpages.org/BusinessLayersSPML.html
"OpenNetwork Announces Universal Identity Platform 5.0 For Unified, End-to-End Identity Management. The Industry's Only .NET-based Solution Leverages Microsoft and Web Services as Underlying Identity Infrastructure." http://xml.coverpages.org/Universal-IdP.html
"Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 Released to Manufacturing. Advanced Capabilities Integrate Identities and Automate Provisioning Across Multiple Directories to Deliver More-Secure, Less-Expensive Identity and Access Management." http://xml.coverpages.org/MIIS-Manufacturing.html
"Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 Hails Broad Industry Support. Leading Systems Integrators, IHVs and ISVs Help Customers Build Comprehensive and Cost-Effective Identity Management Solutions." http://xml.coverpages.org/MIIS-2003.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
HyperText '03. The Fourteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. August 26 - 30, 2003. Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. http://www.ht03.org/ http://www.ht03.org/papers/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#ht2003
KDD-2003. Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. August 24 - 27, 2003. Hilton Washington and Towers, Washington, DC, USA. http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2003/ http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2003/program.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#kdd2003
XML Web Services One Boston. "Solutions for Practical XML Web Services Development." August 12 - 15, 2003. World Trade Center, Boston, MA, USA. http://www.xmlconference.com/boston/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#wsOneBoston2003
Extreme Markup Languages 2003. August 4 - 8, 2003. Hilton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://xml.coverpages.org/ExtremeMarkup2003CFP.html http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/At-A-Glance.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#Extreme2003
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
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
Twenty-Second ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. PODC 2003. July 13 - 16, 2003. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.podc.org/podc2003/ http://www.podc.org/podc2003/accepted.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#podc2003
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