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Cover Pages Newsletter
September 09, 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]
OASIS WSS TC Approves Three Web Services Security Specifications for Public Review.
The OASIS WSS TC announced a decision to begin public review of three Web Services Security specifications. The approved documents move the TC's work one step closer to making WS-Security an OASIS Standard. The Core "SOAP Message Security" proposes a standard set of SOAP extensions for use in building secure Web services to implement message content integrity and confidentiality. Adjunct specs include Username and X.509 Certificate Token profiles. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-09-09-a.html
WWW2004: The Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference.
A Call for Participation has been issued in connection with The Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004), to be held May 17-22, 2004 in New York. The technical program will include refereed paper presentations, alternate track presentations, plenary sessions, panels, and poster sessions. The main three-day conference is preceded by two days of special topical tracks, tutorials, and workshops; a Developers Day follows. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-09-05-a.html
HP Integrates Industry Grid Standards Across All Enterprise Product Lines.
Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to enable its enterprise infrastructure technologies for grid computing by incorporating support for the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) and Globus Toolkit. HP already collaborates with government and industry partners in planetary scale grid computing projects. The company also announced enterprise consulting for grid-based platforms, providing management, deployment, and lifecycle support for grid architectures. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-09-04-a.html
IPTC Releases Version 3.2 Preview for News Industry Text Format (NITF).
A preview version of the NITF 3.2 DTD and documentation has been released by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC). The V3.2 DTD has support for Ruby and adds the 'xml:lang' attribute to the "common" class. The News Industry Text Format (NITF) is an XML- based vocabulary designed for the markup and delivery of news content in a variety of ways, including print, wireless devices and the Web. It is used in IPTC's NewsML. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-09-03-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
"Semantic Web Enabled Web Services." By Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck) and Christoph Bussler (Oracle Corporation). From the Resources Collection of the Semantic Web Services Initiative (SWSI). April 2003. 36 pages (slides). Web Services will transform the web from a collection of information into a distributed device of computation. In order to reach full potential, appropriate description means for web services need to be developed. For this purpose we developed a full-fledged Web Service Modeling Framework (WSMF) that provides the appropriate conceptual model for developing and describing web services and their composition. http://www.swsi.org/resources/wsmf.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#FenselWSMF
"From UML to BPEL: Model Driven Architecture in a Web Services World." By Keith Mantell (IT Architect, IBM). From IBM developerWorks, Web Services. September 9, 2003. BPEL is an XML-based standard for defining how you can combine Web services to implement business processes. This article describes a new tool from the Emerging Technologies Toolkit version 1.1 (ETTK) released on IBM alphaWorks which takes processes defined in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and generates the corresponding BPEL and WSDL files to implement that process. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-uml2bpel/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#Mantell
"XKMS Does the Heavy Work of PKI." By Rich Salz (DataPower Technology). In Network World (September 08, 2003). Public-key infrastructure is well suited for securing Web services, but PKI deployment is too cumbersome and costly for the technology to achieve widespread use. An upcoming XML Key Management Specification (XKMS) standard from W3C aims to reduce the costs of PKI without sacrificing its benefits; it borrows the best of PKI without reducing scalability or security. http://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2003/0908techupdate.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#SalzXKMS
"WhereNet Adds BI to RFID Asset Management. Rules-Based Engine Uses Wireless Tags to Help Companies Keep Track of Resources." By Ephraim Schwartz. In InfoWorld (September 08, 2003). WhereNet, a Santa Clara company that helps companies wirelessly track the location of everything from shopping carts to shipping containers, is adding a business intelligence, rules-based engine to its RFID location-based software. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/08/HNwherenet_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#SchwartzRFID
"Cisco Extends IP Phone Lineup. New Features Include Color Display and Touchscreen." By Stephen Lawson. In InfoWorld (September 09, 2003). Desktop IP (Internet Protocol) phones inched closer to computing platforms on Tuesday with Cisco Systems Inc.'s announcement of a phone with a color touchscreen and the addition of XML application support to two of its less expensive phones. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/09/HNciscoextendsIP_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#LawsonCisco
"The Color of IP Telephony. Cisco Debuts the First Voice-Over-IP Phone With a Full-Color Touch Screen." By David M. Ewalt. In InformationWeek (September 09, 2003). Cisco Systems introduced some color to the world of IP telephony on Tuesday [2003-09-09], releasing the first-ever voice-over-IP phone with a full-color touch screen... Because the 7970G has an improved display and can run programs written in XML, it can be used for a number of applications where the presence of a complete desktop PC might not be desired. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=14700303 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#Ewalt
"Consultancies Aim to Ease Web Services Woes." By Jack McCarthy and Ed Scannell. In InfoWorld (September 06, 2003). ['IT services companies help deliver on the promise of a new computing paradigm. From InfoWorld's Special Report on "Outsourcing Web Services", Web Services on a Platter'] A couple of years ago, in the hype over Web services, IT leaders were told that their prayers would at last be answered. A simple set of XML-based protocols would enable IT to create reusable application building blocks that could be recombined ad infinitum, slashing application-development and maintenance costs. Of course, that hasn't happened. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/05/35FEws-soamain_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#WSPlatter
"Portal Vendors Rallying Around Standards." By Dennis Callaghan. In eWEEK (September 5, 2003). "Vignette Corp. and Plumtree Software are the latest to announce new products built on the Web Services for Remote Portlets standard 1.0, which was ratified this week by OASIS. WSRP 1.0 can be used for interoperability between .Net and Java-based portal elements. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1253157,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#CallaghanWSRP
"Microsoft Moves Forward on DRM." By David Becker. In CNET News.com (September 04, 2003). Microsoft moved forward on its digital rights management strategy this week, releasing the first of several Windows add-ons associated with the technology and revealing pricing on its server software for corporate rights management. A key part of the company's strategy involves limiting access to digital files ranging from office memos to software applications. http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5071342.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#BeckerPalladium
"Introducing the Portlet Specification, Part 2. The Portlet API's Reference Implementation Reveals Its Secrets." By Stefan Hepper and Stephan Hesmer. In JavaWorld (September 05, 2003). In this second and final article of the JSR 168 portlet series, the authors move beyond the Portlet API basics outlined in Part 1 to detail the API's reference implementation (RI), known as Pluto. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2003/jw-0905-portlet2.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#HepperPortlet2
"Don't Let DRM Lock You In. A Q and A with John Fowler, CTO, Sun Software." By John Fowler. In Features: Sun News, Video, and Resources (September 2003). Including a proprietary digital rights management system into Microsoft Office means any data created in Microsoft Office can only be readable and used by Microsoft tools, which means you must use the Microsoft platform. You can think of Microsoft as owning your data because in order to read your data you have to have licensed technology from Microsoft and only Microsoft. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/features/fowler-drm.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#FowlerDRM
"IBM Exec Touts Need for BPEL Support, SOAs." By Barbara Darrow and Elizabeth Montalbano. In CRN (September 02, 2003). Now that many plumbing issues have been sorted out, it's time to bring business process integration, transaction support and systems management into the Web services realm, according to one IBM executive. Toward that end, says Bob Sutor, IBM is building BPEL support as well as WS- Security support into its WebSphere application server, Tivoli systems management, and other IBM products. http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=44275 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#SutorBPEL
"Web Services Standards Fail to Unite." By Martin LaMonica. In ZDNet News (September 05, 2003). IBM and Microsoft are declining to come onboard a unified Web services reliable-messaging specification, preferring to make their own way. The OASIS Web Services Reliable Messaging TC forged ahead on Thursday with the development of the WS- Reliability specification without the backing of the industry heavyweights. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/webservices/0,39020378,39116152,00.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#LaMonicaReliableMessaging
"XQuery from the Experts: Influences on the Design of XQuery. Book Excerpt Explores the Origins of the XML Query Language." By Don Chamberlin (IBM Fellow, Almaden Research Lab). From IBM developerWorks, XML zone. September 03, 2003. Excerpted from Chapter 2, "Influences on the Design of XQuery," in the book XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language (Addison-Wesley). Early in its history, the W3C XML Query Working Group confronted the question of whether XML is sufficiently different from other data formats to require a query language of its own. This excerpted section discusses differences between XML data and relational data from the point of view of a query language. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xqbook.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#Chamberlin
"XML Matters: TEI -- the Text Encoding Initiative. An XML Dialect for Archival and Complex Documents." By David Mertz (Encoder, Gnosis Software, Inc). From IBM developerWorks, XML zone. The Text Encoding Initiative uses XML in the markup of literary and linguistic texts. TEI allows useful abstractions of typographic features of source documents, but in a manner that enables effective searching, indexing, comparison, and print publication. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-matters30.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#MertzTEI
"HP Buys Talking Blocks. Web Services Management Technology Gained." By Matt Hamblen. In InfoWorld (September 04, 2003). Hewlett-Packard announced Wednesday that it has signed a deal to acquire San Francisco-based Talking Blocks for its Web services management technology. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/04/HNhptalkingblocks_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#HamblenHP
"Auto Industry Portal Kicks Into High Gear." By Ellen Messmer. In Network World (September 01, 2003). The Big Three automakers are finally ready to make Covisint, the business-to-business Web portal they founded three years ago to reach suppliers, the central engine in their e-commerce and messaging systems. http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0901covisint.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#Messmer
"IBM in New Push For On-Demand Computing." By Peter Judge. In Techworld (September 03, 2003). IBM is set for a new campaign to sell 'utility computing' or, so-called, computing on demand. This much- touted phrase stands for the concept whereby data centres (including storage, networking and server capacity) can be allocated to different tasks to increase efficiency. http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=418 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#PJudge
"Self-Healing Systems." By Colleen Frye. In Application Development Trends (September 01, 2003). The idea of delivering IT resources on an as-needed basis to respond to the peaks and valleys of demand has been bandied about for years. Recently, leading platform vendors have all rolled out plans for the data center of the future and are starting to deliver technology that will make this vision possible. http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=8132 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#Frye
"Proposed Provisioning Technology Set To Go." By John Fontana. In ComputerWorld (September 04, 2003). The proposed Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) 1.0 standard set for ratification by OASIS is designed to help network executives break the logjam that holds back interoperability among current provisioning systems. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=736192189 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#FontanaSPML
"HP to Grid-Enable Entire Product Line." By Jeffrey Burt. In eWEEK (September 4, 2003). Hewlett-Packard is adding to its Adaptive Enterprise strategy this week by announcing plans to grid-enable its entire product line; HP will integrate the Globus Toolkit as well as the OGSA standard v3.0 into its entire line of consumer and commercial products, from handheld devices up to its largest servers. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1241010,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#BurtHP
"HP to Grid-Enable All Systems, Offers Grid Services." By James Niccolai. In Network World Fusion (September 4, 2003). HP has reiterated its broad commitment to grid computing, saying it will add grid capabilities to all of its systems over the next two to three years and will broaden its service offerings to help businesses adopt the grid computing model. http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0904hpgrid.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#NiccolaiHP
"Key Standards For Web Services-Enabled Portals Nearing Final Approval. JSR 168, WSRP Being Prepped for Industry Adoption." By Elizabeth Montalbano. In CRN (September 03, 2003). Two key technology standards that link Web services to portals are a step closer to final approval by their respective standards bodies. Software support is being announced for JSR 168 and Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP). http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=44281 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#MontalbanoPortals
"Microsoft's Patent Loss Rattles Tech Community. Company Says it is Responding by Making Changes to Internet Explorer." By Paul Roberts. In InfoWorld (September 03, 2003). Companies with products that work on the Internet are slowly waking up to the broad implications of a recent judgement against software behemoth Microsoft Corp. in a patent infringement case. The verdict could spell trouble for a wide range of popular Web-based products and services. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/03/HNmicrosoftsloss_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#RobertsUCPatent
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"Advent 3B2 Launches 3B2-FO, A New XSL-FO Rendering Tool, At Seybold San Francisco 2003." http://xml.coverpages.org/Advent3B2-3B2-FO.html
"Cisco Systems Unveils Color IP Telephone, A Powerful New Platform for Network-Based Productivity Applications. XML Developers at Cisco ITC Expo Demonstrate Advanced Business Applications on Cisco IP Phones." http://xml.coverpages.org/CiscoPhonesXML.html
"Ipedo Announces New Multi-Source Enterprise Information Integration (EII) Capabilities. Completes Industry-First Realtime Assimilation of Oracle 9i, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server and Web Services Data." http://xml.coverpages.org/Ipedo-EII.html
"PureEdge, ACORD Work Together to Provide Insurance Brokers and Companies with Greater Efficiency in Data Collection and Management. Development of ACORD XML Forms to Cut Processing Time and Operational Costs, Improve Data Accuracy." http://xml.coverpages.org/ACORD-PureEdge.html
"Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC and Oracle Showcase Reliable Web Services. OASIS Members Demonstrate Successful Interoperability of Reliable Messaging for Web Services at Technical Committee Meeting." http://xml.coverpages.org/WS-ReliabilityInterop.html
"HP Advances Grid Strategy for the Adaptive Enterprise. HP Systems to be Grid-enabled. Grid Services to Simplify Use, Management of Infrastructure Resources." http://xml.coverpages.org/HP-Grid.html
"Systinet WASP Developer, 4.6 Extends Popular Java IDEs for Web Services Creation, Supports SOAP 1.2, WS-Security." http://xml.coverpages.org/WASPDeveloperV46.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
WWW2004. The Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference. May 17-22, 2004. New York Sheraton, New York, NY, USA. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-09-05-a.html http://www2004.org/ http://www2004.org/cfp/refereed.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#www2004
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
XML in the News. XMLUK.org (XML UK) Conference. "How XML is Being Implemented in Newspapers and Related Media." October 7, 2003. The Magic Circle, Euston, London, UK. http://www.xmluk.org/public/magic-circle_2003.htm http://www.xmluk.org/slides/magic-circle_2003/XMLUK-conference-2003-10-07.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#xmluk-news
The Cocoon GetTogether, Edition 2003. October 7, 2003. Ghent, Belgium. http://www.orixo.com/events/gt2003/ http://www.orixo.com/events/gt2003/cfp.html http://www.orixo.com/events/gt2003/program.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#cocoon2003
SpeechTEK 2003. September 29 - October 2, 2003. New York Marriott Marquis, New York, NY, USA. http://www.speechtek.com/ http://www.speechtek.com/events http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#speechtek2003
DC-2003. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Annual Conference. "Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practice: Metadata Research and Applications." September 29, 2003 - October 2, 2003. Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.ischool.washington.edu/dc2003/ http://www.ischool.washington.edu/dc2003/call.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#dmci2003
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
Center for Information-Development Management Fifth Annual Best Practices Conference. September 22 - 24, 2003. Edgewater Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA. http://www.infomanagementcenter.com/BestPractices/2003/index.html http://www.infomanagementcenter.com/BestPractices/2003/program.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#cidmSeattle
EDOC 2003. Seventh IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference. September 16 - 19, 2003. Brisbane, Australia. http://edocconference.org/ http://edocconference.org/program.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#edoc2003
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
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