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Cover Pages Newsletter
July 22, 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 [Full abstract] http://xml.coverpages.org/covernewsTOP.html [Brief summary] http://xml.coverpages.org/covernews.xml [RSS]
RSS 2.0 Specification Published by Berkman Center Under Creative Commons License.
The RSS Version 2.0 specification developed by Userland has been transferred to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. It has been republished under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike license which permits others to distribute derivative works under a license identical to the one that governs the licensor's work. RSS and other emerging XML formats for news syndication are becoming increasingly popular. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-07-22-a.html
HP Contributes Web Services Management Framework Specification to OASIS TC.
HP has announced Web Services Management Framework Version 2.0 and plans to contribute the specification set to the OASIS WSDM TC. WSMF contains three specifications describing components of a management stack: "WSMF-Foundation" defines a base framework for management using Web services; "WS-Events" defines a Web services based event notification mechanism; "WSMF-Web Services Management" defines the model for management of Web services. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-07-21-a.html
JSR 168 Portlet API Specification 1.0 Released for Public Review.
The release of the JSR-000168 Portlet API Specification 1.0 Public Review Draft has been accompanied by announcements of immediate support from Sun and Oracle. The "Portlet Specification" defines a standard for the Java portlet API outlined in JSR 168, designed to enable interoperability between portlets and portals by defining a set of APIs for Portal computing addressing the areas of aggregation, personalization, presentation and security. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-07-18-a.html
Extreme Topics Presented at Extreme Markup Languages Conference 2003.
The complete program has been published for Extreme Markup Languages Conference 2003, "There's Nothing So Practical as a Good Theory." Extreme 2003 will be held on August 4 - 8, 2003, once again in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Extreme covers markup practice and theory; knowledge access and navigation; formal languages; modeling approaches, markup software development; information philosophy; ontologies, taxonomies, and vocabularies. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-07-16-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
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2. Edited by Dean Jackson (W3C). W3C Working Draft 15-July-2003. Third public working draft of the SVG 1.2 specification, produced by the W3C SVG Working Group as part of the W3C Graphics Activity within the Interaction Domain. This document specifies version 1.2 of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Language, a modularized language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. This draft of SVG 1.2 is a snapshot of a work-in- progress. The SVG Working Group believe the most of the features here are complete and stable enough for implementors to begin work and provide feedback. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-SVG12-20030715/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#SVGv12-3WD
"Dynamic Scalable Vector Graphics (dSVG) 1.1 Specification." Edited by Gordon G. Bowman. July 09, 2003. Copyright (c) 2003 Corel Corporation. See the expanded Table of Contents and file listing from the distribution package. "This specification defines the features and syntax for Dynamic Scalable Vector Graphics (dSVG), an XML language that extends SVG, providing enhanced dynamic and interactive capabilities that were previously only available via scripting. dSVG is a language for describing UI controls and behaviors in XML. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Corel-dSVG
"SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism." Edited by Noah Mendelsohn (IBM), Mark Nottingham (BEA), and Hervi Ruellan (Canon). W3C Working Draft 21-July-2003. The W3C XML Protocol Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of the SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism. Inspired by PASWA and enhancing the SOAP HTTP Binding, this technical report presents a mechanism for improving SOAP performance in the abstract and in a concrete implementation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-soap12-mtom-20030721 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#SOAPTransmission
"Web Services Security, Part 4." By Bilal Siddiq. In O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com (July 21, 2003). In this fourth article of the series, the author puts the pieces together to demonstrate the simultaneous use of all four of the XML security standards (XML signature, XML encryption, WSS, and SAML) in one application. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/07/22/security.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#SiddiqSecurity4
"Groove Tackles Project Management. Workspace Project Edition Taps TeamDirection Tools." By Cathleen Moore. In InfoWorld (July 22, 2003). Groove Networks has rolled out a project management version of its desktop collaboration software designed to help distributed project teams work together more effectively. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/22/HNgrooveproject_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#MooreGroove
"XML Watch: Tracking Provenance of RDF Data. RDF Tools Are Beginning to Come of Age." By Edd Dumbill (Editor and publisher, xmlhack.com). In IBM DeveloperWorks (July 21, 2003). When you start aggregating data from around the Web, keeping track of where it came from is vital. In this article, Edd Dumbill looks into the contexts feature of the Redland Resource Description Format (RDF) application framework and creates an RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0 aggregator as a demonstration. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-rdfprov.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#DumbillProvenance
"IBM Adds Grid Computing to WebSphere." By Peter Sayer. In ComputerWorld (July 22, 2003). IBM will add some grid-computing capabilities to the enterprise edition of its WebSphere Application Server, allowing companies to squeeze more performance from disparate Web applications running on clusters of servers through better load balancing. http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,83302,00.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#SayerGrid
"WSRP: The Web Services Standard for Portals." By Lowell Rapaport. In Transform Magazine (July 2003). Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP) is an emerging standard designed to simplify integration. WSRP is expected to cut portal development costs by standardizing the way a remotely executed portlet integrates with a portal. WSRP specifies how a Web service downloads its results to a portal in HTML via simple object access protocol (SOAP). http://www.transformmag.com/db_area/archs/2003/07/tfm0307tp_1.shtml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Rapaport
"Web Services Spending Down But Not Out." By Martin LaMonica. In BusinessWeek Online (July 22, 2003). A new Gartner survey finds that Web services projects remain a top priority for corporations despite budget cutbacks that are due to the economic downturn. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/5053130.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#LaMonicaWSpend
"WSDL First." By Will Provost. In O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com (July 22, 2003). f you're serious about developing RPC-style services, you should know WSDL as well as you know WXS [W3C XML Schema]; you should be creating and editing descriptors frequently. More importantly, a WSDL descriptor should be the source document for your web service build process, for a number of reasons, including anticipating industry standardization, maintaining fidelity in transmitting service semantics, and achieving the best interoperability through strong typing and WXS. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/07/22/wsdlfirst.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Provost
"Web Services and Sessions." By Sergey Beryozkin. In O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com (July 22, 2003). An enterprise application is usually exposed to the outside world as a single monolithic service, which can receive request messages and possibly return response messages, as determined by some contract. Services designed according to the principles of a service-oriented architecture can be either stateless or stateful. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/07/22/sessions.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Beryozkin
"Introduction to JSR 168 - The Java Portlet Specification." From Sun Microsystems. Whitepaper. 19 pages. "The Java Specification Request 168 Portlet Specification (JSR 168) standardizes how components for portal servers are to be developed. It defines a common Portlet API and infrastructure that provides facilities for personalization, presentation, and security. Portlets using this API and adhering to the specification will be product agnostic, and may be deployed to any portal product that conforms to the specification. http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/portalserver/reference/techart/jsr168/pb_whitepaper.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#SunPortlet
"Identity-Management Plans Draw Praise." By Steven Marlin. In InformationWeek (July 17, 2003). Liberty Alliance and SAML earn plaudits from the Financial Services Technology Consortium for making single sign- on easier for customers. FSTC praised two identity-management proposals, Liberty Alliance and Security Assertion Markup Language, for sparing customers the chore of maintaining multiple sets of IDs and passwords. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12800801 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#MarlinSAML
"SPML Passes Demo As Multi-Platform Provisioning Specification." By Vance McCarthy. In Enterprise Developer News (July 15, 2003). OASIS passed a hurdle last week, as member companies successfully demoed the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) as an XML-derived standard for multi- platform provisioning during last week's Catalyst Conference. http://idevnews.com/CaseStudies.asp?ID=85 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#McCarthySPML
"XSLT Performance in .NET." By Dan Frumin. In O'Reilly ONDotnet.com (July 14, 2003). The Microsoft .NET Framework brings with it many new tools and improvements for developers. Among them is a very rich and powerful set of XML classes that allow the developer to tap into XML and XSLT in their applications. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/07/14/xsltperf.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Frumin
"An XML Fragment Reader." By William Brogden. In XML.com (July 21, 2003). A lot of XML parsing deals with document fragments, as opposed to complete documents, but XML parsers prefer to deal with entire documents. A Java solution turns out to be simple and quite flexible; it enables you to combine many bits of XML formatted character streams to feed an XML parser. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/07/16/fragmentreader.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Brogden
"From XML to Wireless, Office Suites Move With the Times. Enhanced Basics and Added Features Change the Dynamics of Office Suites " By Cecil Wooley. In Government Computer News Volume 22, Number 19 (July 21, 2003). Office suites are even more indispensable than paper at government agencies. In this review the author tested four leading office suites, grading them for quality, ease of use and price. http://www.gcn.com/22_19/readsurvey/22787-1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Wooley
"BEA Ships WebLogic Platform 8.1. The Suite Includes BEA's Application Server and JRockit Java Virtual Machine." By James Niccolai. In ComputerWorld (July 18, 2003). "BEA Systems Inc. has announced the general availability of WebLogic Platform 8.1, the latest edition of its suite of Java server software for developing, deploying and integrating business applications. http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,83206,00.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#NiccolaiBEA
"EIPs More Compelling Than Ever." By Jim Rapoza. In eWEEK (July 21, 2003). Portals provide the much-needed ability to integrate and unify access to a company's applications, back-end systems, data sources and content repositories. Unlike many other pricey enterprise applications, EIPs continue to show an excellent return on investment. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1199230,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#RapozaEIP
"The Security Components Exchange Protocol (SCXP)." By Yixian Yang (Information Security Center, Beijing University of Posts and Telecom, BUPT). IETF Internet Draft. Reference: draft-yang-scxp-00. June 2003, expires December 2003. Section 7 supplies the SCXP XML DTDs (SCXP DTD, channelType Option DTD, channelPRI Option DTD). This document describes the Security Components Exchange Protocol (SCXP), an application-level protocol for exchanging data between security components. Built on BEEP, SCXP supports mutual-authentication, integrity, confidentiality and replay protection over a connection-oriented protocol. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-yang-scxp-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#YangSCXP
"SCO Takes Aim at Linux Users." By Stephen Shankland and Lisa M. Bowman. In CNET News.com (July 21, 2003). SCO Group, a company that says Linux infringes on its Unix intellectual property, announced on Monday that it has been granted key Unix copyrights and will start a program to let companies that run Linux avoid litigation by paying licensing fees. http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5047571.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#BowmanSCO
"XQuery and SQL: Vive la Différence." By Ken North. In DB2 Magazine (Quarter 3, 2003). "Sometimes SQL and XML documents get along fine; sometimes they don't. The new W3C XQuery language developed by SQL veterans is promising to smooth things over and get everything talking again. http://www.db2mag.com/db_area/archives/2003/q3/north.shtml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#NorthSQL
"Foundry Networks Launches XML Switching for Load Balancer. TrafficWorks Ironware OS is Used in its Upper-Layer Load Balancing Switches." By Matt Hamblen. In ComputerWorld (July 21, 2003). Foundry Networks Inc. is releasing a new version of its TrafficWorks Ironware operating system, which is used in its upper-layer load-balancing switches. A key ingredient of Version 9.0 is XML switching capability to control and direct traffic based on XML tags. http://www.computerworld.com/networkingtopics/networking/story/0,10801,83266,00.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Hamblen
"Content-Centric XML: Coming Soon to an Intranet Near You?" By Robert J. Boeri. In (July 20, 2003). "Content-centric XML hasn't followed its original five-year script. Although use of XML to transfer information between applications was one of the World Wide Web Consortium's original goals, emphasis was on content-centric XML: Web pages and documents. What happened...? http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspxfiArticleID=4619 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Hamblen
"Auto-ID Center Opens Demo Lab." By [RFID Journal Staff]. In RFID Journal News (July 11, 2003). The Auto-ID Center has opened a robotic demonstration lab at its facility in Cambridge to show off RFID's manufacturing capabilities. The demonstration highlights use of a robot for automatic picking, placing, storage and flexible packaging. The technology uses a Physical Markup Language (PML) server. http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/22/1/1/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#GilletteRobots
"Debate Flares Over Weblog Standards. Despite Technical Battles, Weblogs Prepare to Alter the Collaboration and Content Management Space." By Cathleen Moore. In InfoWorld (July 18, 2003). Weblogs are poised to roil the status quo of enterprise collaboration and content management despite recent debate regarding the protocols underpinning the technology. Online personal publishing technology has skyrocketed in popularity during the past year, attracting serious interest from megaplayers such as AOL and Google. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/18/28NNrss_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#MooreWeblogs
"XML Semantics and Digital Libraries." By Allen Renear (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), David Dubin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (MIT Laboratory for Computer Science), and Claus Huitfeldt (Department for Culture, Language, and Information Technology, Bergen University Research Foundation). Pages 303-305 (with 14 references) in Proceedings of the Third ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2003, May 27-31, 2003, Rice Univerersity, Houston, Texas, USA). Session on Standards, Markup, and Metadata. The BECHAMEL Markup Semantics Project explores representation and inference issues in document markup semantics, surveys properties of popular markup languages, and is developing a formal, machine-readable declarative representation scheme in which the semantics of a markup language can be expressed. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#renearDL
"The XML Log Standard for Digital Libraries: Analysis, Evolution, and Deployment." By Marcos André Gonçalves, Ganesh Panchanathan, Unnikrishnan Ravindranathan, Aaron Krowne, and Edward A. Fox (Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, VA); Filip Jagodzinski and Lillian Cassel (Villanova University, Villanova, PA). Pre-publication version of the paper delivered at JCDL 2003. Pages 312-314 (with 5 references) in Proceedings of the Third ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2003, May 27-31, 2003, Rice Univerersity, Houston, Texas, USA). Session on Standards, Markup, and Metadata. The authors describe current efforts and developments building on our proposal for an XML log standard format for digital library (DL) logging analysis and companion tools. Focus is given to the evolution of formats and tools, based on analysis of deployment in several DL systems and testbeds. http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/DLLogging/xmllog_jcdl.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#XML-Log
"Logic Grammars and XML Schema." By C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (World Wide Web Consortium / MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge MA). Draft version of paper prepared for Extreme Markup Languages 2003, Montréal. This document describes some possible applications of logic grammars to schema processing as described in the XML Schema specification. It introduces basic ideas for using logic grammars as a way of animating the XML Schema specification / modeling XML Schema. http://www.w3.org/People/cmsmcq/2003/EML2003Sper0518.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Sperberg-McQueenLG
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"Seybold San Francisco Transformed: Ten Key Conferences Include Enterprise Publishing and Digital Media. New Look, Vision for 22-Year-Old Gathering of 'All Things Publishing' Set for Sept. 8-12, 2003, at Moscone West." http://xml.coverpages.org/SeyboldSF2003C10.html
"HP Acquires PipeBeach to Strengthen Leadership in Growing VoiceXML Interactive Voice Market. Standards-based Products from PipeBeach Bolster HP OpenCall Portfolio and Enhance HP's Ability to Deliver Speech-based Solutions." http://xml.coverpages.org/HP-PipeBeach.html
"Web Services Enable More Success for Digital Photography Printing Services. Lack of Interoperability Is Making It Difficult for Consumers to Use Digital Photo Services." http://xml.coverpages.org/GartnerCPXe-PSN.html
"Intergraph Advances Open Data Exchange of Geospatial Information with New GML and WFS Interoperability Extensions. Free Desktop GeoMedia Viewer to Enable GML and WFS Query and Viewing Capabilities." http://xml.coverpages.org/GeoMediaViewer.html
"Interwoven Releases TeamSite 6.0 - The New Benchmark in the Content Management Industry. New Release Empowers Enterprises to Boost Workforce Productivity and Enable Faster, Smarter Decision-Making with an All New, Easy, and Customizable User Experience." http://xml.coverpages.org/TeamSite60CS.html
"HP Fuels Industry-standard Approach to Web Services Management. HP to Submit Technology to Standards Consortium, Supported by Ascential Software, BEA Systems, Informatica, IONA, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO Software, and webMethods." http://xml.coverpages.org/HP-WSManagementFramework.html
"BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 Ships. New Products Offer Faster Time to Value by Converging the Development and Integration of Applications, Portals and Business Processes." http://xml.coverpages.org/WebLogicV81Ships.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
Seybold San Francisco 2003. September 8 - 12, 2003. Moscone Center West, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.seybold365.com/sf2003/ http://www.seybold365.com/sf2003/conference/glance.php http://xml.coverpages.org/SeyboldSF2003C10.html http://xml.coverpages.org/SeyboldSF2003.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#seyboldSF2003
XML Database Symposium (XSym 2003). September 8, 2003. The Humboldt- Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. http://www.lirmm.fr/~bella/XSym/ http://www.lirmm.fr/~bella/XSym/program.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/XSym2003-CFP.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#XSym2003
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
ECDL 2003. Seventh European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. August 17 - 22, 2003. Britannia Hotel, Trondheim, Norway. http://www.ecdl2003.org/ http://www.ecdl2003.org/ecdl.program.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#ECDL2003
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://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2003/program.asp http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/At-A-Glance.html http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#Extreme2003
2003 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. August 4 - 7, 2003. The Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/ http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny03/V40/index.cvn?ID=10177 http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#LinuxWorld2003
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