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Cover Pages Newsletter
August 26, 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]
Preliminary Program for ER2003 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling.
A provisional schedule has been published for the 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, to be held October 13-16, 2003 in Chicago. ER2003 will incorporate four workshops on special aspects of conceptual modeling: Conceptual Modeling Approaches for e-Business (eCOMO2003); International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling Quality (IWCMQ); Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS); Workshop on XML Schema and Data Management (XSDM 2003). http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-26-a.html
UBR Operators Council Announces Beta Release of UDDI Business Registry for UDDI Version 3.0.
The UDDI Business Registry (UBR) Operators Council has announced the availability of beta nodes for Version 3 of the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration specification. Key enhancements in V3 include User-Defined Keys, designation of the UDDI Business Registry (UBR) as a Root Registry, Portable Keys, and Digital Signatures. UDDI enables a business to register its services and to discover other businesses that offer desired services. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-25-a.html
UPnP Forum Releases New Security Specifications for Industry Review.
The Universal Plug and Play Forum (UPnP) has issued a call for industry review of two new XML-based specifications, "SecurityConsole: Service Template" and "DeviceSecurity: Service Template". UPnP Forum's device protocols are designed to make home networking simple and affordable. Using declarative wire protocols expressed in XML, UPnP architecture offers pervasive peer-to-peer network connectivity of PCs of all form factors, intelligent appliances, and wireless devices. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-22-a.html
IETF Network Configuration Working Group Releases Initial NETCONF Draft.
The IETF Network Configuration Working Group chartered to produce a protocol suitable for network configuration has issued an initial "NETCONF Configuration Protocol" Working Group Draft. The NETCONF protocol API uses XML RPC. It defines a simple mechanism through which a network device can be managed: configuration data, state information, and system notifications can be retrieved; new configuration data can be uploaded and manipulated. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-21-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
"Grid Security: State of the Art. Expanded Grid Security Approaches Emerge." By Anne Zieger (Chief Analyst, PeerToPeerSource.com) From IBM developerWorks (August 2003). Emerging grid security efforts are also beginning to address application and infrastructure security issues, including application protection and node-to-node communications. The Globus Toolkit offers authentication, authorization, and secure communications through its Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI). http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/grid/library/gr-security.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Zieger
"RSS Utilities: A Tutorial." By Rodrigo Oliveira (Propertyware). From Java Developer Services' technical articles series. August 2003. The author has developed a JSP Tag Library that can be used by anybody with a basic understanding of RSS, JavaServer Pages, and HTML. The RSS Utilities Package contains a set of custom JSP tags which make up the RSS Utilities Tag library, and a flexible RSS Parser. http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javaserverpages/rss_utilities/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#OliveiraRSS
"Integrating CICS Applications as Web Services. Extending the Life of Valuable Information." By Russ Teubner. In WebServices Journal Volume 3, Issue 9 (September 2003), pages 18-22. With 4 figures. This article explains how you can use them to integrate mainframe CICS applications with other enterprise applications. IBM's CICS (Customer Information Control System) is a family of application servers that provides online transaction management and connectivity for legacy applications. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/article.cfm?id=643 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Teubner
"Structured Documents: Searching XML Documents via XML Fragments." By David Carmel, Yoelle S. Maarek, Matan Mandelbrod, Yosi Mass, and Aya Soffer (IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa). Presented July 30, 2003 at the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference [ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval] (Toronto, Canada). Published in the the Conference Proceedings, pages 151-158. The authors present here an approach where information needs can be expressed in an approximate manner as pieces of XML documents or 'XML fragments' of the same nature as the documents that are being searched. They describe an extension of the vector space model for searching XML collections via XML fragments and ranking results by relevance. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#CarmelSIGIR26
"Development of SNMP-XML Translator and Gateway for XML-Based Integrated Network Management." By Jeong-Hyuk Yoon, Hong-Taek Ju, and James W. Hong. In International Journal of Network Management Volume 13, Issue 4 (July/August 2003), pages 259-276. This research team has worked to develop an SNMP MIB to XML translation algorithm and to implement an SNMP-XML gateway using this algorithm. The gateway is used to transfer management information between an XML-based manager and SNMP-based agents. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#SNMP-XML
"Universal Plug and Play: Networking Made Easy." By Stephen J. Bigelow. In PC Magazine (September 2003). A technology called Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is starting to make networking- configuration hassles a thing of the past. To foster interoperability, UPnP relies on network-related technologies built upon industry- standard protocols such as HTTP, IP, TCP, UDP, and XML. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1232585,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#BigelowUPnP
"Sun Seeks to Spur App Server Adoption. High Availability Stakes Raised in Upgrade." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (August 26, 2003). Sun Microsystems hopes to make a bold leap in the Java application server space with its upcoming Sun ONE Application Server 7 Enterprise Edition, featuring high availability. The technology is intended to ensure 99.999 uptime for applications such as e-commerce transactional systems. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/26/HNsunappserver_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#SunONEAppServer7
"Transacting Business with Web Services, Part I. The Coming Fusion of Business Transaction Management and Business Process Management." By Alastair Green (Choreology Ltd). In WebServices Journal Volume 3, Issue 9 (September 2003), pages 32-35. Business transaction management (BTM) is a promising new development in general-purpose enterprise software. This article looks at the rationale for and current status of BTM, and how vendors and users are thinking about the integration or fusion of BTM with BPM, particularly in the OASIS BPEL standardization effort. http://sys-con.com/webservices/article.cfm?id=647 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#GreenBTM
"Macromedia Plays Drag-and-Drop Game." By Gavin Clarke. In Computer Business Review Online (August 25, 2003). Macromedia Inc. is eyeing up Delphi and Visual Basic developers with a web-programming environment exploiting both drag-and-drop and XML web services. Flash MX Professional 2004 uses web services with scriptable data binding that supports SOAP and XML; Dreamweaver features enhanced support for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that helps reduce consumption of network bandwidth. http://www.cbronline.com/news http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#ClarkeMX
"Macromedia Unveils MX 2004 Lineup. New versions of Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks Slated for September Release." By Dave Nagel. In Creative Mac News (August 25, 2003). The primary focus of Dreamweaver MX 2004 is the simplification of cascading style sheets, with the entire design environment built around CSS for precise control over design elements. It offers support for SecureFTP, dynamic cross-browser validation functionality, built-in graphics editing, and integration with Microsoft Word and Excel. http://www.creativemac.com/2003/08_aug/news/mx2004030825.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Nagel
"Goals of the BPEL4WS Specification." By Frank Leymann, Dieter Roller, and Satish Thatte. Working document submitted to the OASIS Web Services Business Process Execution Language TC. The memo articulates ten (10) overall goals of the "original" BPEL4WS Specification, covering Web Services as the Base, XML as the Form, Common set of Core Concepts, Control Behavior, Data Handling, Properties and Correlation, Lifecycle, Long-Running Transaction Model, Modularization, and Composition with other Web Services Functionality. http://xml.coverpages.org/BPEL4WS-DesignGoals.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#ThatteBPEL4WS
"J2ME Connects Corporate Data to Wireless Devices. Sacrificing Proprietary Gimmicks for Software Portability, J2ME Leads the Way." By Tom Thompson. In InfoWorld (August 22, 2003). For IT managers whose chief concern is that applications running on device 'A' today also run on device 'B' tomorrow, the best choice among development platforms is J2ME, a slimmed-down version of Java tailored for use on embedded and mobile devices. Most handset vendors implement their own Java VM, and third-party VMs provide Java support in Palm and Pocket PC devices. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/22/33FEj2me_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#ThompsonJ2ME
"'Java Everywhere' is for World Domination. Why the Latest Wireless Buzz Matters to All Developers." By Michael Juntao Yuan. In JavaWorld (August 22, 2003). The buzzword from the 2003 JavaOne conference was 'Java everywhere.' Java runtimes are built into more than 150 devices from more than 20 manufactures, and all five major cell phone manufactures have committed to the Java platform. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2003/jw-0822-wireless.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#JavaEverywhere
"webMethods Extends UAN Support." By Demir Barlas. In Line56 (August 21, 2003). For joint Siebel/webMethod customers, a shortcut to solving some potentially messy integration problems. webMethods has extended its support of the Universal Application Network (UAN), developed by customer relationship management (CRM) software provider Siebel, to include applications for the communications, media, and entertainment (CME) industries. http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=4929 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#BarlasUAN
"Web Services Basic Profile for Industry and J2EE 1.4." By Gavin Clarke. In Computer Business Review Online (August 13, 2003). The WS-I Basic Profile announcement means Sun Microsystems' latest server edition of Java, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4, can now proceed to market, with the specification's final publication expected by the end of December 2003. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#ClarkeBPv10
"NETCONF Configuration Protocol." Edited by Rob Enns (Juniper Networks). IETF Network Working Group, Internet-Draft. Reference: 'draft-ietf-netconf-prot-00'. August 11, 2003, expires February 9, 2004. 73 pages. There is a need for standardized mechanisms to manipulate, install, edit, and delete the configuration of a network device. NETCONF uses a remote procedure call (RPC) paradigm to define a formal API for the network device. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-netconf-prot-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#EnnsNETCONF
"Embedded Markup Considered Harmful." By Norman Walsh. From XML.com (August 20, 2003). The idea of escaping markup goes against the fundamental grain of XML. If this hack spreads beyond RSS to other vocabularies, we'll very quickly find ourselves mired in the same bugward-compatible tag soup from which we have struggled so hard to escape. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/20/embedded.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#WalshEmbeddedMarkup
"Should Atom Use RDF?" By Mark Pilgrim. From XML.com (August 20, 2003). Mark Pilgrim explains the use of RDF in the new Atom syndication format. Atom-as-RDF is not the primary mode of consuming Atom feeds, as there are dozens, perhaps more than 100, tools that consume syndication feeds. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/20/dive.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#PilgrimAtom
"The Semantic Web is Closer Than You Think." By Kendall Grant Clark. From XML.com (August 20, 2003). OWL is an ontology language for the Web which builds on a rich technical tradition of both formal research and practical implementation, including SHOE, OIL, and DAML+OIL. The technical basis for much of OWL is the part of the formal knowledge representations field known as Description Logics. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/20/deviant.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#ClarkOWL
"OWL Ascends Within Standards Group." By Paul Festa. In CNET News.com (August 18, 2003). As part of its ongoing effort to give digital documents meaning that computers can understand, the Web's leading standards body advanced a key protocol as a candidate recommendation: W3C's Web Ontology Language (OWL), a revision of the DAML+OIL Web ontology language, forms just one part of what the consortium calls its 'growing stack' of Semantic Web recommendations. http://news.com.com/2100-1013_3-5066131.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#FestaOWL
"Building Interoperable Web Services: WS-I Basic Profile 1.0." By Jonathan Wanagel, Andrew Mason, Sandy Khaund, Sharon Smith, RoAnn Corbisier, and Chris Sfanos (Microsoft Corporation). From the Microsoft Prescriptive Architecture Group (PAG). Series: Patterns & Practices. August 12, 2003. 133 pages. This guide covers WS-I Basic Profile contents, use within Microsoft development tools, coding compliance challenges, degrees of freedom for customers and best options based on technical and non-technical requirements. The Guide is intended to help software architects and developers design and code Web services that are interoperable. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsvcinter/html/wsi-bp_msdn_landingpage.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#MicrosoftBPGuide
"Canonical Situation Data Format: The Common Base Event." By IBM Staff Members: David Ogle (Autonomic Computing), Heather Kreger (Emerging Technologies), Abdi Salahshour (Autonomic Computing), Jason Cornpropst (Tivoli Event Management), Eric Labadie (WSAD PD Tooling), Mandy Chessell (Business Integration), Bill Horn (IBM Research - Yorktown), and John Gerken (Emerging Technologies). Reference: ACAB.BO0301.1.1. Copyright (c) International Business Machines Corporation. 66 pages. With XML Schema. IBM submission to the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management TC. This document defines a common base event (CBE) and supporting technologies that define the structure of an event in a consistent and a common format. The purpose of the CBE is to facilitate effective intercommunication among disparate enterprise components that support logging, management, problem determination, autonomic computing and e-business functions in an enterprise. http://xml.coverpages.org/IBMCommonBaseEventV111.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#IBM-CBEvent
"[Unicode] Identifier and Pattern Syntax." By Mark Davis. Public review draft from the Unicode Technical Committee. Reference: Proposed Draft, Unicode Technical Report #31. Date: 2003-07-18. This document describes specifications for recommended defaults for the use of Unicode in the definitions of identifiers and in pattern-based syntax. A proposal is included for two new immutable properties which would not ever change once they are introduced into the standard, so it is important to get feedback on their contents beforehand. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/tr31-1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#UnicodePatternSyntax
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"Macromedia Announces Dreamweaver MX 2004. New Version Builds Foundation for Widespread Adoption of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)." http://xml.coverpages.org/DreamweaverMX2004.html
"The Uniform Code Council Solution Partner Program Launched. Solution Partners Drive Business Opportunities by Providing Integrated Solutions for UCC Member Companies." http://xml.coverpages.org/UCC-PartnerProgram.html
"ebXML Asia Committee Starts New ebXML Interoperability Certification Program. Twelve Organizations Receive Certifications on ebXML Message Service specification 2.0." http://xml.coverpages.org/ebXMLAsiaInterop.html
"UDDI Operators Council Releases Version 3 of the UDDI Business Registry. Beta Version to Include Enhanced Functionality for Companies to Build Secure Web Services Registries. UDDI Operators SAP, IBM and Microsoft to Provide Beta APIs for Public Usage of UDDI Version 3 Free of Charge." http://xml.coverpages.org/UDDIv3BetaNodes.html
"OASIS ebXML Update: Completion of ebXML Second Phase." http://xml.coverpages.org/ebXML-Phase2.html
"UN/CEFACT Announces Successful Completion of ebXML Technical Standards Work Programme with OASIS. UN/CEFACT Continues Development of Technology- and Implementation-Neutral E-Business Standards." http://xml.coverpages.org/UNCEFACT-ebXML200308.html
"Siebel Systems and webMethods Announce Expanded Offering for Universal Application Network. Siebel Integration Applications for Communications, Media and Energy Industries Now Available on webMethods Integration Platform." http://xml.coverpages.org/webMethodsUAN.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
ER 2003. 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. October 13 - 16, 2003. DoubleTree North Shore Hotel, [Skokie] Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-26-a.html http://www.er.byu.edu/er2003/ http://www.er.byu.edu/er2003/program.php http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#er2003
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
Washington Area SGML/XML Users Group XML Authoring/Editing Forum. September 29, 2003. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, Virginia, USA. http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/XML-forum/ http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/XML-forum/attendee-register.html http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/XML-forum/vendor-info.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#editingForum
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
Inaugural EPC Executive Symposium. September 15 - 17, 2003. McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, USA. http://show.epcsymposium.com/ http://www.autoidcenter.org/ http://xml.coverpages.org/pml-ons.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#epcSymposium
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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