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Cover Pages Newsletter
August 19, 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]
Web3D Consortium Advances Specifications for 3D Web Applications.
Recent announcements from the Web3D Consortium and its members highlight the progress of the Extensible 3D (X3D) specifications and development of commercial software to support '3D Web' authoring and browsing. X3D uses XML to extend and enhance the Virtual Reality Modeling Language standard. An X3D Compressed Binary Encoding RFP has been issued and an XMSF Working Group formed to enable large-scale X3D deployment for simulation using Web Services.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-19-b.html
W3C Releases Candidate Recommendations for Web Ontology Language (OWL).
W3C has published a suite of six Candidate Recommendation specifications defining the Web Ontology Language (OWL). An emerging ontology standard designed to strengthen the Semantic Web, OWL is a language for defining structured, Web-based ontologies which enable richer integration and interoperability of data across application boundaries. OWL is being used in the bioinformatics and medical communities, corporate enterprise, and governments.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-19-a.html
WS-I Releases Basic Profile 1.0a Final Specification for Interoperable Web Services.
The Web Services-Interoperability Organization (WS-I) has published a final specification for the "WS-I Basic Profile Version 1.0a", accompanied by statements of support from more than 25 WS-I member companies. The approved WS-I Basic Profile consists of implementation guidelines on how core Web services specifications should be used together to develop interoperable Web services. It references SOAP 1.1, WSDL 1.1, UDDI 2.0, XML 1.0, and W3C XML Schema.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-18-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 for e-Business." By Eve Maler (Sun Microsystems, Inc). Tutorial presentation. July 2003. 105 pages/slides. Tutorial delivered at the CSW Informatics XML Summer School on 28-July-2003, and subsequently edited slightly to incorporate fixes, notes, and timestamps. The ebXML Core Components substrate allows for correlation between different syntactic forms of business data that has the same meaning and purpose; UBL is striving to use the CCTS metamodel accurately. UBL proposes to flesh out the ebXML stack with the UBL Context Methodology and the UBL Library. http://xml.coverpages.org/Maler-CSW-xml-for-ebusiness.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#MalerUBLCSW
"Turn User Input into XML with Custom Forms Using Office InfoPath 2003." By Aaron Skonnard. In Microsoft MSDN Magazine (September 2003). Office InfoPath 2003 is a new Microsoft Office product that lets you design your own data collection forms that, when submitted, turn the user-entered data into XML for any XML-supporting process to use. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/09/InfoPath/default.aspx http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Skonnard
"The Trojan Document." By Erika Brown. In Forbes Magazine (August 18, 2003). Bruce Chizen, President and Chief Executive Officer of Adobe Systems Incorporated, is pushing hard to make Adobe more relevant to big business. It's a bold bet that puts the company directly in Microsoft's way. http://www.forbes.com/business/energy/free_forbes/2003/0707/105.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#BrownPDF
"Acrobat Challenges InfoPath. Adobe Takes a Giant Step Forward Into Direct Competition with Microsoft." By Jon Udell. In InfoWorld (August 15, 2003). The ongoing integration of XML into PDF is about to shift into high gear... The backstory includes initiatives such as XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform), which embeds XML metadata in PDF files; and Tagged PDF, which enables PDF documents to carry the structural information that can be used, for example, to reflow a three-column portrait layout for landscape mode. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/15/32OPstrategic_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#UdellPDF
"Hands-on XForms. Simplifying the Creation and Management of XML Information." By Micah Dubinko (Cardiff Software). In XML Journal Volume 4, Issue 8 (August 2003). This article compares W3C XForms to ad hoc solutions to produce a real-life application: the creation of XML purchase orders. The example shows how a declarative approach as used in XForms can eliminate a substantial amount of complexity from the overall solution. http://www.sys-con.com/xml/article.cfm?id=686 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Dubinko
"XForms Building Blocks." By Micah Dubinko (Cardiff Software). Draft Chapter 2 (20 pages) from XForms Essentials: Gathering and Managing XML Information, [to be] published by O'Reilly & Associates as part of the Safari Bookshelf. This chapter goes into greater detail on the concepts underlying the design of XForms, as well as practical issues that come into play, including a complete, annotated real-world example. A key concept is the relationship between forms and documents. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xforms/chapter/ch02.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#DubinkoXFormsEssentials
"Object-Oriented XsLT: A New Paradigm for Content Management." By Pietro Michelucci. In XML Journal Volume 4, Issue 8 (August 2003). The author has created a general-purpose XsLT that one can use to apply multiple serial XsL transformations to an XML data document. OOX, like OOP, isn't just about stringing together multiple transformations or treating schemas like interfaces; it's an approach to content management and Web architecture that involves the judicious application of data abstraction and the reuse of transformation objects. http://www.sys-con.com/xml/article.cfm?id=687 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Michelucci
"XML MetaData for Simplifying Web Development." By George M. Pieri and Arnoll Solano. In JavaPro Magazine (August 2003). The author shows how to simplify the Java development process by using XML to deliver your data and to describe the business objects that are responsible for building the data. Using metadata to describe your business objects and presentation components can speed up development. http://www.fawcette.com/javapro/2003_08/online/xml_gpieri_03_06_19/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Pieri
"Discover Key Features of DOM Level 3 Core, Part 1. Manipulating and Comparing Nodes, Handling Text and User Data." By Arnaud Le Hors and Elena Litani (IBM). From IBM developerWorks, XML zone. August 19, 2003. In this two-part article, the authors present some of the key features brought by the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Working Draft and show you how to use them with examples in Java code. This first part covers manipulating nodes and text, and attaching user data onto nodes. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-keydom.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#LeHorsDOM3
"Low Bandwidth SOAP." By Jeff McHugh. From O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com (August 19, 2003). With the mobile phone industry reporting better than expected sales, and news that, by the end of this year, smart phones are expected to outsell hand-held computers, it should come as no surprise that wireless application development is on the rise. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/08/19/ksoap.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#McHughMobile
"J2ME Web Services Specification 1.0." JSR-000172. Proposed Final Draft 2. By Jon Ellis and Mark Young. Date: July 14, 2003, Revision 10. Release date: July 18, 2003. Copyright (c) 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 86 pages. The specification has been developed under the Java Community Process (JCP) version 2.1 as Java Specification Request 172 (JSR-172). This specification builds on the work of others, specifically JSR-63 Java API for XML Processing and JSR-101 Java API for XML based RPC. The main deliverables of the JSR-172 specification are two new, independent, optional packages: a package adding XML Parsing support to the platform and a package to facilitate access to XML based web services from CDC and CLDC based profiles. http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/first/jsr172/index2.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#J2ME-2
"Use of SAML in the Community Authorization Service." By Von Welch, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Sam Meder, Laura Pearlman, and Frank Siebenlist. Working paper presented to the OASIS Security Services TC. August 19, 2003. 5 pages. This document describes a proposed use of SAML in the upcoming release of the Community Authorization Service. CAS allows resource providers to specify course-grained access control policies in terms of communities as a whole, delegating fine-grained access control policy management to the community itself. http://www.globus.org/Security/cas/Papers/SAML%20Feedback-aug19.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#WelchSAML
"Use of SAML for OGSA Authorization." From the Global Grid Forum OGSA Security Working Group. Submitted for consideration as a recommendations document in the area of OGSA authorization. GWD-R, June 2003. 16 pages. The document defines an open grid services architecture (OGSA) authorization service based on the use of the security assertion markup language (SAML) as a format for requesting and expressing authorization assertions. http://www.globus.org/ogsa/security/authz/OGSA-SAML-authorization-profile-june4.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#OGSA-SAML
"Southwest Airlines Shows SAML's Promise." By Terry Allan Hicks, Ray Wagner, and Roberta J. Witty (Gartner). Gartner Research Note. Reference Number: FT-20-7798. August 13, 2003. Enterprises that manage large numbers of external identities should consider SAML-based cross- domain trust. Southwest is one of the first to use SAML-enabled identity management on a large scale to perform cross-domain trust. http://www3.gartner.com/resources/116800/116811/116811.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#HicksSAML
"A Web Services Strategy for Mobile Phones." By Nasseam Elkarra. From O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com (August 19, 2003). This article gives an overview of the various technologies and routes available for mobile web service development. With the availability of packet-switched, always-on networks for mobile phones becoming more widespread, mobile access to data will become easier than ever. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/08/19/mobile.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#ElkarraMobile
"Members Offer Glimpse Inside WS-I Consortium." By John Hogan. In SearchWebServices.com News (August 18, 2003). For the vendor-backed Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), getting a group of engineers to reach a consensus was a matter of deciding what was critical for making Web services specifications work with one another. The WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 a set of guidelines for Web services interoperability. http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci919829,00.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#HoganWSI
"WS-I Basic Profile Set." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (August 18, 2003). After a long period of hype around Web services, the Web Services-Interoperability organization last week announced the official delivery of WS-I Basic Profile 1.0. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1225685,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#TaftWSI
"OWL Flies As Web Ontology Language. W3C Seeks More Implementations." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (August 18, 2003). W3C has issued its Web Ontology Language (OWL) as a W3C Candidate for Recommendation. OWL is a language for defining structured Web-based ontologies that enable richer integration and interoperability of data across application boundaries. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/19/HNowl_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#KrillOWL
"Nation's ebXML Standard to Be Adopted Asia-Wide." By Sim Kyu-ho. In Korea IT Times [The Electronic Times] (August 18, 2003). e-Business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML) proposed by Korea will be adopted in the first version of Asian guidelines. Jang Jae-gyung, manager of standard development at the Korea Institute for Electronic Commerce (KIEC) has also been named head of the new agency, which will develop Asian edition of ebXML. http://english.etnews.co.kr/news/detail_top.html?id=200308180007&art_grad=9 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#ebXML-Korea
"ebXML Seen as SME Web Service Enabler. Government, Private Sector Begin Pilot Projects." By Sasiwimon Boonruang. In Bangkok Post (August 06, 2003). Thailand Government agencies and the private sector have adopted the Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML) standard to boost national competitiveness, launching Internet-based paperless trading pilot projects and a collaborative e-tourism project. http://www.bangkokpost.com/060803_Database/06Aug2003_data01.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Boonruang
"Coalition Uses Web for Emergency Notification. System Uses Web Services, Off-The-Shelf Software." By Grant Gross. In InfoWorld (August 18, 2003). The 9-1-1 emergency service in Oregon has expanded to include instant notifications to school administrators, hospitals and other people who need timely emergency notifications, thanks to a coalition of Oregon local governments and technology vendors using Web services and off-the-shelf software. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/20/HNemergency_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Gross
"Service-Oriented Architecture Explained." By Sayed Hashimi (NewRoad Software). From O'Reilly ONDotnet.com (August 18, 2003). Although the concepts behind SOA have been around for over a decade now, SOA has gained extreme popularity of late due to web services. At a high level, SOA is composed of three core pieces: service providers, service consumers, and the directory service. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/08/18/soa_explained.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Hashimi
"DocBook for Eclipse: Reusing DocBook's Stylesheets." By Jirka Kosek. From XML.com (August 13, 2003). DocBook is a popular tool for creating software documentation among developers. The author shows how easily one can integrate DocBook documents into the Eclipse platform help system by reusing existing stylesheets. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/13/docbook-eclipse.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Kosek
"XSLT Recipes for Interacting with XML Data." By Jon Udell. From XML.com (August 13, 2003). Udell explores alternative ways of making XML data interactive using XSLT; he develops an approach to building a web-based application backed by pure XML. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/13/udell.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#UdellRecipes
"Introducing Anobind." By Uche Ogbuji. From XML.com (August 13, 2003). Many development projects require a flexible data binding system in processing both data and document-style XML instances. The author presents a new data Python-XML binding called Anobind. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/13/py-xml.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#OgbujiAnobind
"Binary XML, Again." By Kendall Grant Clark. From XML.com (August 13, 2003). The old chestnut of a binary encoding for XML has cropped up once more, this in time in serious consideration by the W3C. Kendall Clark comments on the announcement of the W3C's Binary XML Workshop. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/13/deviant.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#KGClarkBinary
"JavaOne: Fast Web Services." Presentation by Santiago Pericas- Geertsen and Paul Sandoz (Sun Microsystems). JavaOne 2003 San Francisco, June 2003. ASN.1 is perfectly suited for the definition of a Binary Schema-binding Framework that can be easily integrated into Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) and Java API for XML Messaging. Preliminary results show that the resulting performance is comparable to that of RMI/IIOP. http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/sf2003/conf/sessions/display-3752.en.jsp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#JavaOneFastWS
"The Emergence of ASN.1 as an XML Schema Notation." By John Larmouth (Larmouth T & PDS Ltd, Bowdon, UK). Presentation given at XML Europe 2003, May 5-8, 2003. With slides in HTML and .PPT format. This paper describes the emergence of ASN.1 as an XML schema notation. Use of ASN.1 as an XML schema notation provides the same functionality as use of W3C XML Schema (XSD), but makes compact binary representations of the data available as well as XML encodings. http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/en/xml/ASN1-as-an-XML-schema-notation.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#LarmouthASN1
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"World Wide Web Consortium Issues Web Ontology Language Candidate Recommendations. Emerging Ontology Standard, OWL, Strengthens Semantic Web Foundations." http://xml.coverpages.org/OWL-CR200308.html
"Oracle Helps Developers Build Interoperable Web Services." http://xml.coverpages.org/Oracle-WSI.html
"SAP Announces Support for WS-I Basic Profile 1.0. SAP NetWeaver to Align with the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0, Enabling Greater Industry Adoption of Web Services for Enterprise Customers." http://xml.coverpages.org/SAP-WSIBPv10.html
"Southwest Airlines Deploys Industry Leading SAML Implementation On Oblix NetPoint. NetPoint SAML Solution Enables User Authentication and Authorization Across Corporate Extranets." http://xml.coverpages.org/OblixSouthwestAirlines.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2003. November 20 - 22, 2003. INRIA Rhône-Alpes Research Unit, Grenoble, France. http://wam.inrialpes.fr/doceng2003/ http://wam.inrialpes.fr/doceng2003/cfp.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#acmDocEng2003
FTP Enterprise Architecture Summit 2003. October 12 - 14, 2003. Westin Mission Hills Resort, Palm Springs, California, USA. http://www.enterprise-architect.net/summit http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/eas/agendaprint.aspx http://www.ftponline.com/Conferences/eas/speakers.aspx http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#eas2003
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
W3C Event on P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages. September 09, 2003. IBM Center, Sydney, Australia. http://www.w3.org/2003/09/09-sydney.html http://www.privacyconference2003.org/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#W3Cprivacy
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
24th Internationalization and Unicode Conference. "Unicode, Internationalization and the Web: Powering Global Business." September 3 - 5, 2003. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc24/ http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc24/program.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#iuc24
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