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Cover Pages Newsletter
August 05, 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]
OASIS XML Common Biometric Format Specification (XCBF) Submitted for Approval.
The OASIS XML Common Biometric Format Technical Committee has requested that the "XML Common Biometric Format" (XCBF) specification v1.1 be considered for approval as an OASIS Standard. The document deals with biometrics in the sense of automated methods for recognizing a person based on physiological (retina, hand geometry, DNA) or behavioral characteristics; these are used to recognize the identity of an individual, or to verify a claimed identity. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-05-b.html
Call for Participation in OASIS Asynchronous Service Access Protocol (ASAP) TC.
OASIS members are forming a new Asynchronous Service Access Protocol (ASAP) TC to create a very simple extension of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) that enables generic asynchronous web services or long-running web services. The proposed ASAP specification will complement existing standards and be consistent with the W3C XML Protocol (XMLP) work, including SOAP. ASAP builds upon technical work previously published in the SWAP and AWSP protocols. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-05-a.html
Call for Public Review of Draft Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Specification.
The editors of the "Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Syntax and Resolution Specification" have issued a call for public comment on the OASIS TC's Working Draft version 07. The Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) notation provides a standard means of abstractly identifying a resource independent of any given concrete representation of that resource or, in the case of a completely abstract resource, independent of any representation at all. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-04-a.html
W3C Publishes XForms Version 1.0 as a Proposed Recommendation.
The W3C XForms Working Group has released its "XForms 1.0" specification as a Proposed Recommendation and welcomes public review through August 29, 2003. XForms is W3C's new generation of Web forms which separates purpose, presentation, and data. XForms is designed to be more flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form technologies, enabling validity constraint checking and integration into other markup languages such as XHTML or SVG. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-01-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
"Extensible 3D: XML Meets VRML." By Len Bullard. From XML.com (August 06, 2003). The Virtual Reality Modeling Language is very much alive and being used to solve real problems. In this article, we will examine the new VRML standard, Extensible 3D (X3D), as well as software and other resources available to support it. Examples and a short tutorial on the new X3D XML-format are provided. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/06/x3d.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Bullard
"UML for Web Services." By Will Provost. From O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com (August 05, 2003). The author shows in detail how web service applications can be designed with UML; he describes an implementation process that leads from UML to WDSL and W3C XML Schema to program code. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/08/05/uml.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#ProvostUML
"WDSL Tales From the Trenches, Part 3." By Johan Peeters. From O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com (August 05, 2003). In the third installment of of this article series, Peeters concentrates on the importance of modeling the data elements involved in web services, and explains the best strategies for using W3C XML Schema to model this data. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/08/05/wsdl.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#PeetersWSDL3
"Build Rich, Thin Client Applications Automatically Using XML." By Laurence Moroney. In DevX Network (July 30, 2003). New products let you build highly graphical client-side applications without the performance headaches of applets or the security concerns of ActiveX. The next big trend in decoupling appears to be separating the user interface implementation from the user interface definition. http://www.devx.com/xml/Article/16704/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Moroney
"Creating Java Grid Services." By Aaron E. Walsh (Mantis Development Corporation). In Dr. Dobb's Journal (DDJ) (September 2003), pages 18-23. Special Issue on Distributed Computing. Aaron uses the Globus Toolkit, a development framework for developing special-purpose grids, to build Java-based grid services and grid clients. OGSI uses WSDL to define compliant grid services that are accessible over the Internet using SOAP/HTTP. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#WalshGRID
"Grid Services Extend Web Services. A Solid Foundation for Service Consumer Reliability." By Dr. Andrew Grimshaw and Steve Tuecke. In Web Services Journal Volume 3, Issue 8 (August 2003), pages 22-26. The differences between Grid services as defined in the Open Grid Services Infrastructure specification and Web services are few, so Grid services do look like Web services. But Grid service conventions are not superficial in their function; they address fundamental issues in distributed computing relating to how to name, create, discover, monitor, and manage the lifetime of stateful services. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/article.cfm?id=621 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Grimshaw
"Introducing Open Grid Services. An Infrastructure Built on Existing Technologies." By Dr. Savas Parastatidis (Chief Software Architect, North-East Regional e-Science Centre [NEReSC], Newcastle, UK). In Web Services Journal Volume 3, Issue 8 (August 2003), pages 10-14. In June 2003, the Global Grid Forum (GGF) adopted the Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) specification as a GGF standard. OGSI is essential to the Open Grid Computing vision as it is the foundation on top of which the building blocks of future Grid applications will be placed. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/article.cfm?id=619 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Parastatidis
"Build Interoperable Web Services With JSR-109. Understanding the Foundation of JSR-109." By Jeffrey Liu and Yen Lu (Web Services Tools Team at the IBM Toronto Lab). From IBM developerWorks, Web services. August 05, 2003. JSR-109 facilitates the building of interoperable Web services in the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) environment. It standardizes the deployment of Web services in a J2EE container. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-jsrart/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Liu-JSR109
"Building a Business Logic Layer Over Multiple Web Services. Leveraging Multiple Web Services to Build a Truly Distributed Web Services Architecture" By Rajesh Zade and Avinash Moharil. In Web Services Journal Volume 3, Issue 8 (August 2003), pages 16-20 (with 5 figures). The central concern of this article is how to build a logical layer serving as a Web service over other multiple Web services accessing remote applications and analyzing responses obtained from those Web services in real time. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/article.cfm?id=620 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Zade
"Creating Web Services Using GLUE. An Easy Development Framework." By (AVAO Corporation). In Web Services Journal Volume 3, Issue 8 (August 2003), pages 38-43. GLUE, by The Mind Electric, is a framework for developing and publishing Web services. It is simple, easy, and fast to create Web services. GLUE supports SOAP1.2, WSDL1.1, and UDDI v2. This article provides an introduction to how to use GLUE, including publishing and invoking Web services, working on SOAP messages, using SOAP over JMS, publishing EJBs as Web services, and publishing and inquiry using UDDI. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/article.cfm?id=624 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#GLUE
"Web Services Made Easy with Ruby. A Simple Development Method." By Aravilli Srinivasa Rao (Hewlett-Packard). In Web Services Journal Volume 3, Issue 8 (August 2003), pages 34-37. This article looks at how to develop a Web service client to access the Web services that are hosted in the Internet and how to develop a Web service with simple steps using Ruby. Ruby is the interpreted scripting language invented by Yukihiro Matsumoto for quick and easy object-oriented programming and is more popular in Japan than in other countries. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/article.cfm?id=623 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Rao
"A Weblog API For the Grassroots." By Rich Salz. From O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com (August 05, 2003). An earlier article examined the Necho message format, comparing it to RSS, its predecessor. In this column the author looks at the API (Atom API) used to manipulate 'Necho' data. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/08/05/salz.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#SalzAPI
"RDF Site Summary 1.0 Modules: Context." By Tony Hammond (Elsevier), Timo Hannay (Nature Publishing Group), Eamonn Neylon (Manifest Solutions), and Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory). This draft RSS 1.0 module is being released to support applications that wish to make use of the ANSI/NISO Draft Standard for Trial Use 'The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services'. http://xml.coverpages.org/RSS-ModContext200308.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#RSSContext
"XML Matters: The RXP Parser. An Extremely Fast Validating Parser With a Python Binding." By David Mertz, Ph.D. (Comparator, Gnosis Software, Inc). From IBM developerWorks, XML zone. August 04, 2003. In this article, David introduces you to RXP, compares it with the expat parser, and briefly discusses pyRXP and LT XML as ways of taking advantage of the speed RXP has to offer without all of its complexity. The speed of RXP stands out especially in the context of the pyRXP binding. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-matters29.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#MertzRXP
"Dispute Exposes Bitter Power Struggle Behind Web Logs." By Paul Festa. In CNET News.com (August 04, 2003). As commercial interests have increasingly dominated the Internet, Web logs have come to represent a bastion of individual expression and pure democracy for millions of bloggers. The conflict centers on something called Really Simple Syndication (RSS), a technology widely used to syndicate blogs and other Web content. http://news.com.com/2009-1032_3-5059006.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#FestaRSSWars
"Infrastructure-Level Web Services." By Anne Thomas Manes (Burton Group). In Web Services Journal Volume 3, Issue 8 (August 2003), page 58. Infrastructure-level Web services are Web services that implement part of the distributed computing infrastructure. They help other Web services communicate and make the Web services framework more robust. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/article.cfm?id=627 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#ManesInfrastructure
"In Their Orbit. What Drives Business-Technology Innovation? Look to Large Companies' Supply Chains, Not Just Tech Vendors." By Rick Whiting. In InformationWeek (August 04, 2003). When Wal-Mart Stores Inc. told 100 key suppliers this year that they need to be able to track pallets of merchandise using radio-frequency ID technology by January 2005, it offered the latest example of how supply chains increasingly will become the innovation chains that shape business technology. http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=12808009 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#WhitingRetail
"Portal Standards Take Flight. Vendor Frameworks to Support JSR 168 and WSRP." By Cathleen Moore. In InfoWorld (July 30, 2003). As two key portal specifications(JSR 168, WSRP) approach final status, portal vendors are stitching in standards-compliant APIs for delivering content and applications into the portal framework. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/01/30NNjsr_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#MoorePortal
"Introducing the Portlet Specification, Part 1. Get Your Feet Wet with the Specification's Underlying Terms And Concepts." By Stefan Hepper and Stephan Hesmer. In JavaWorld (August 01, 2003). The authors first define portals and portlets, then explain the concepts JSR 168 introduces, including the API's basic objects. They also cover the JSR's more advanced functions such as user information, localization, and caching, concluding with a description of portlet application packaging and deployment. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2003/jw-0801-portlet.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#HepperJSR168
"Orbeon Framework Transforms XML to Java." By Yvonne L. Lee. In Software Development Times (August 01, 2003). Orbeon Inc.'s latest version of Open XML Framework (OXF) XML transformation middleware lets developers turn XML documents into J2EE applications without writing new Java code. OXF 2.0 version 2.0 helps developers separate site navigation, page validation, page layout, and site presentation into distinct parts of an application. http://sdtimes.com/news/083/story15.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Lee-Orbeon
"BEA Targets IBM With App Server Plan." By Martin LaMonica. In CNET News.com (August 01, 2003). BEA Systems is launching an effort designed to help it regain the lead in the application server market. The company will announce a new version of its WebLogic Platform server software along with a plan for linking business applications. http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5058853.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#LaMonicaBEA
"Oracle, Sun and Partners Publish WS Coordination Specification." By [CBDi Newswire Staff]. In CBDI Newswire: Insight for Web Service and Software Component Practice (August 01, 2003). In August 2002, IBM, Microsoft and BEA published the two specifications WS-Transaction and WS-Coordination. With the Web Services Composite Applications Framework (WS-CAF) from Oracle, Sun and partners, we now have a further specification covering similar functionality. http://www.cbdiforum.com/public/news/index.php3?id=1288 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#CBDi-WSCAF
"Truce Called in Java Standards Battle." By Martin LaMonica. In CNET News.com (July 31, 2003). "A closely watched feud over Java standards compliance moved closer to resolution this week as Open-source Java software distributor JBoss Group said that it will work to certify its software with the Sun-controlled Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard. http://news.com.com/2100-1013_3-5058048.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#JBoss
"Nortel Adds Application-Level Security to Alteon Switches." By Larry Hooper. In InternetWeek (August 01, 2003). Nortel Networks is deepening its push into the security market with new products in its Layer 4-7 Alteon application switch line. The Alteon OS 21.0 release include denial of service protection and XML and SOAP inspection functionality; the XML and SOAP inspection provides Web services-aware traffic management that inspects, classifies and directs Web Services traffic. http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12808029 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#HooperNortelWS
"Netware 6.5 Marks Novell's Open Integration Push." By Ian Palmer. In Enterprise Developer News (July 31, 2003). Novell, after years of quiet contributions to Open Source projects, including Apache and OpenLDAP, is taking its Open Source efforts to a new level. Netware 6.5, along with its support for web services deployment, will bundle some of the most popular Open Source technologies for the enterprise. http://idevnews.com/CaseStudies.asp?ID=86 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#PalmerNovell
"Guess What? Microsoft Won." By Charles Cooper. In CNet News.com (August 01, 2003). Three years removed from the Microsoft breakup order and 10 months after a final settlement was struck, it's fair to ask who really came out on top. The company has made 'either no change or only cosmetic changes to its business practices'; Bill Gates' cyberempire is growing richer all the time. http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-5058613.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Cooper
"China to Snub MPEG Standard For Own Format." By [Staff]. In CNETAsia (August 01, 2003). China will have its own audio-video compression standard, as part of moves to shift reliance away from Western formats; the new format is aimed at rivaling technology from the globally-dominant MPEG. http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/applications/0,39001094,39144293,00.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#ChinaAVS
"MPEG Standard Addresses Rights." By Paul Festa. In CNET News.com (July 30, 2003). The Moving Pictures Experts Group has completed an effort on two digital rights management technologies intended to increase the MPEG standard's appeal to the recording industry and Hollywood. http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5057852.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#FestaMPEG21
"Identifying and Brokering Mathematical Web Services." By Mike Dewar (Numerical Algorithms Group, NAG). In Web Services Journal Volume 3, Issue 8 (August 2003), pages 44-46. The MONET project is a two-year investigation into how service discovery can be performed for mathematical Web services, funded by the European Union under its Fifth Framework program. The project is currently building prototype brokers that can reason about available services using MSDL descriptions encoded in the W3C's OWL. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/article.cfm?id=625 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#Dewar
"IBM, CA Square Up to HP on Management." By Keith Rodgers. From LooselyCoupled.com (July 30, 2003). Shortly after HP's submission of a Web Services Management Framework to the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management TC, a Web Services Manageability specification overview was presented by IBM, Computer Associates and Talking Blocks. http://www.looselycoupled.com/stories/2003/wsdm-ws-infr0730.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#RodgersWSManag
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets. September 24 - 26, 2003. Santa Clara, California, USA. http://www.w3.org/2003/07/binary-xml-cfp.html http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#BinaryInterchange
ICWS-Europe 2003. The International Conference on Web Services - Europe 2003. "Web Services Architectures, Infrastructures and Applications." September 23 - 24, 2003. Erfurt, Germany. http://www.jeckle.de/ICWS03-Europe http://www.jeckle.de/ICWS03-Europe/cfp.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/ICWS-Europe2003.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#ICWS-Europe03
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
First Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) Conference. "Industry Trends Toward Automated Data Integration." August 19, 2003. Whitaker Hall, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. http://www.envision.com/feature/ http://www.envision.com/feature/udefagenda.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#udef1
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
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