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Cover Pages Newsletter
September 16, 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]
Updated Specifications for the Web Services Transaction Framework.
A revised "Web Services Coordination (WS-Coordination)" specification has been published by Microsoft, BEA, and IBM, together with a new "Web Services Atomic Transaction (WS-AtomicTransaction)" document. The Atomic Transaction coordination type is used when strong isolation is required until a transaction completes. A third "Web Services Business Activity (WS-BusinessActivity)" document will be added to the Web Services Transaction Framework.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-09-16-a.html
IBM, Computer Associates, and Talking Blocks Release WS-Manageability Specification.
A three-part WS-Manageability specification has been released for public review by IBM, Computer Associates, and Talking Blocks. The specification has been provided as a submission to the OASIS WSDM TC and to the Web service community in general. WS-Manageability is designed to enhance manageability with XML and WSDL, uses existing infrastructure mechanisms, is consistent with existing standards, and does not specify implementation details.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-09-15-b.html
Berkeley Center for Document Engineering (CDE) Promotes XML-Encodable Business Models.
A new Center for Document Engineering has been established at UC Berkeley as a focal point for research initiatives in XML and model- based approaches to business computing. CDE will create, collect, and disseminate XML schemas, software, best practices, and other content for building web services and applications that allow business semantics to drive IT systems and automate business processes. CDE's first initiative is a UBL-based BABL.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-09-15-a.html
Sun Announces J2EE V1.4 Support for WS-I Compliant Web Services Applications.
Sun Microsystems has announced the availability Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) version 1.4 source code providing support for the final WS-I Basic Profile and the J2EE programming model for portable Web services applications. The source-code release includes compatibility tests, allowing J2EE licensees to make progress on implementing J2EE v1.4. WS-I interoperability specs are supported in Sun's Java WSDP 1.2 and J2EE 1.4 SDK Beta 2.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-09-11-b.html
Web Services for Remote Portlets Specification Approved as OASIS Standard.
OASIS has announced consortium approval of the "Web Services for Remote Portlets Specification" V1.0 as an OASIS Standard, reflecting the collaborative effort of some 25 OASIS member companies. WSRP defines standard Web services interfaces and semantics for interactive, presentation-oriented content services. The specification allows the content consumers, such as portals, to access conformant services without requiring service-specific code.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-09-11-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
"Using XPath with SOAP." By Massimiliano Bigatti. From O'Reilly WebServices.XML.com (September 16, 2003). Max Bigatti shows that we don't always need heavyweight data binding for RPC-style SOAP processing. With a working example he shows how Java's Jaxen XPath processor can be used to implement a loosely coupled web service. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/09/16/jaxen.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#BigattiSOAP
"Enabling Smart Objects: Breakthrough RFID-Enabled Supply Chain Execution Infrastructure." Sun Microsystems White Paper: Sun and Auto- ID. September 9, 2003. 32 pages. The Auto-ID standards will create a cost-effective way to make the supply chain more efficient. This paper provides an overview of the Auto-ID specification and its components, what Sun has learned from initial trials, and what products and technologies can be used to create an Auto-ID implementation. http://wwws.sun.com/software/solutions/auto_id/final_r4wp0903.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#SunRFID
"RFID: Driving Benefits Throughout the Supply Chain." By Norm Korey (IBM Global Services). In Wireless Business and Technology Volume 3, Issue 9 (September 2003). RFID is an emerging, advanced wireless technology for item tagging that enables end-to-end asset awareness. At its core, RFID uses tags, or transponders that, unlike bar code labels, have the ability to store information that can be transmitted wirelessly in an automated fashion to specialized RFID readers, or interrogators. http://www.sys-con.com/wireless/article.cfm?id=635 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#Korey
"James Clark Unveils a New XML Mode for GNU Emacs." By Michael Smith. From XMLHack (September 10, 2003). James Clark has announced the alpha release of nXML, a new mode for editing XML documents from within GNU Emacs. It's a milestone in that it's the first open-source editing application to enable context-sensitive validated editing against Relax NG schemas. It also provides a clever mechanism for real-time, automatic visual identification of validity errors, along with flexible syntax-highlighting and indenting capabilities. http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2061 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#Smith-nXML
"Chicago Show Heralds New 'Internet of Things'. Electronic Product Code Network Launched at Conference." By Paul Roberts. In InfoWorld (September 15, 2003). A Chicago symposium highlights technology that may fuel the next 50 years of economic growth: a global network of intelligent objects. The EPC (Electronic Product Code) Executive Symposium marks the official launch of the Electronic Product Code (EPC) Network, an open technology infrastructure developed by researchers worldwide. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/15/HNchicagoshow_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#RobertsEPC
"IBM, Others Unveil RFID Offerings. Big Blue Will Offer Consulting and Implementation Services for RFID." By Stephen Lawson. In InfoWorld (September 15, 2003). IBM Corp. and a truckload of other vendors joined the RFID (Radio Frequency ID) parade Monday at a meeting in Chicago that is shaping up as a coming-out party for the object- identification technology. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/15/HNibmrfid_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#LawsonRFID
"Using XML Schemas Effectively in WSDL Design. Achieve a Higher Degree of Portability With These Best Practices." By Chris Peltz and Mark Secrist (HP Developer Resources). In XML Journal Volume 4, Issue 9 (September 2003). With source code. In this article, the authors will focus on four specific areas of best practices that can be applied, particularly in the use of XML Schemas in a Web services design: XML Schema style, namespaces, XML and WSDL import for modularity, and use of schema types for platform interoperability. http://www.sys-con.com/xml/article.cfm?id=710 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#PeltzWSDL
"Generation of XML Records across Multiple Metadata Standards." By Kimberly S. Lightle and Judith S. Ridgway (Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, Ohio State University, USA). In D-Lib Magazine (September 19, 2003). This paper describes the process that Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC) staff went through to develop crosswalks between metadata based on three different standards and the generation of the corresponding XML records. The crosswalk between USMARC, IEEE LOM, and DC-ED is included, as well as examples of the XML records. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september03/lightle/09lightle.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#Lightle
"Problems Arise During UML 2.0 Finalization. Lack of Clarity, Inability to Implement Specification Cited as Obstacles to Early Adoption." By David Rubinstein. In Software Development Times (September 15, 2003). The co-chairman of the task force working on the finalization of UML 2.0 has acknowledged that two important problems have emerged during this phase of review, but said they are being fixed and the specification is expected to be released as an Object Management Group Inc. available technology in April 2004. http://www.sdtimes.com/news/086/story2.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#RubinsteinUML
"IBM Package Gets E-Commerce Right." By Jim Rapoza. In eWEEK (September 15, 2003). IBM's powerful e-commerce application gives enterprises all the capabilities they will need in a single platform and does so without sacrificing quality. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1265664,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#RapozaWebSphere
"Saving the Browser. By Ray Ozzie. In Ray Ozzie's Weblog. September 12, 2003 [or later]. An account of Lotus Notes development in relation to the Eolas lawsuit. Ray Ozzie says: "... For my own interest, and for the record, I recently spent a little time pursuing my intuition that Lotus Notes R3 might be viable prior art relative to the patent in question. I am not an attorney, and I am surely not well versed in the nuances of the case, but it seems to me after initial investigation that there is indeed quite a bit of relevance..." http://www.ozzie.net/blog/stories/2003/09/12/savingTheBrowser.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#OzzieLotus
"Sun Updates J2EE for Web Services." By David Becker. In CNET News.com (September 12, 2003). Sun Microsystems has released a preliminary version of an update to its Java 2 Enterprise Edition software, with support for a major new Web services standard. Sun announced late Thursday that a qualification release of the source code for version 1.4 of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is available to licensees. http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5075614.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#BeckerSunWSI
"Web Services Portal Standard Approved." By Grant Gross. In Network World The OASIS standards consortium has approved a standard that members say will make it easier and cheaper to publish data on Web portals... WSRP eliminates the need for content aggregators to choose between having to host a content source at the location of the portal server or having writing different code for each remote content source. http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0912webservi.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#GrossWSRP
"IE Patent Endgame Detailed." By Paul Festa. In CNET News.com (September 09, 2003). Microsoft has suffered another legal setback in the patent dispute with software developer Eolas and is now advising Web authors on workarounds, as new details emerge of its plans to tweak Internet Explorer. http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5074799.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#FestaEndgame
"Ten Favorite XForms Engines." By Micah Dubinko. From XML.com (September 10, 2003). There are a large number of XForms engines currently under development by companies large and small. This article offers a good starting point for XForms research; for each XForms engine, the author describes the software, system requirements, and provides other useful information as well as a screenshot. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/09/10/xforms.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#DubinkoTen
"DRM: Some Restrictions May Apply." By Jim Rapoza. In eWEEK (September 08, 2003). DRM is a technology that has yet to prove its worth, either in the area of intellectual property protection or in the corporate arena, where vendors are hoping to make inroads. In eWEEK Labs' experience, any DRM restrictions can be easily defeated through the use of remote control, digital cameras, or even pen and paper. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1258742,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#RapozaDRM
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"XML Common Biometric Format (XCBF) Ratified as OASIS Standard." http://xml.coverpages.org/xcbfV11Standard.html
"Sun Microsystems Announces Vision and Initiative for Enterprise Auto- ID/EPC Deployments. Newly Formed Sun Business Leads Auto-ID/EPC Product and Market Development Efforts." http://xml.coverpages.org/SunRFID200309.html
"IBM Announces Comprehensive New RFID Service. Helping Retailers and Consumer Packaged Goods Companies Boost Accuracy in Picking, Packing, Shipping. Cutting Theft in the Supply Chain." http://xml.coverpages.org/IBM-RFID200309.html
"ODRL International Workshop 2004 In Vienna." http://xml.coverpages.org/ODRL-Workshop2004.html
"Center for Document Engineering Established at UC Berkeley. Focal Point for Initiatives in XML and Model-Based Approaches for Automatable, Standards-Based Business Computing." http://xml.coverpages.org/BerkeleyCDE-BusinessXML.html
"Talking Blocks, CA, and, IBM Announce Submission of Web Services Manageability Standard to OASIS. Leaders in Systems and Web Services Management Create and Jointly Submit Standard to OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Technical Committee." http://xml.coverpages.org/WS-ManageabilityAnn.html
"Sun is First to Market With Platform for WS-I Compliant Web Services Applications. Recent Beta Release of the J2EE 1.4 Software Developer Kit and Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.2 Demonstrate Sun's Java Web Services Leadership." http://xml.coverpages.org/J2EEv14-WSI.html
"Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Approved as OASIS Standard. BEA Systems, Citrix Systems, Factiva, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Plumtree Software, Reed Elsevier, SAP, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO, Vignette, and Other OASIS Members Standardize Integration of User- Facing Web Services." http://xml.coverpages.org/WSRPStandard.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
XML UK Topic Maps Seminar. "Real World Topic Maps: How to Manage Knowledge And Address The Challenge Of Infoglut." November 5, 2003. Duxford Officers' Mess, Duxford, Cambridge, UK. http://www.xmluk.org/public/duxford_2003.html http://www.xmluk.org/ http://xml.coverpages.org/topicMaps.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#xmlukTM2003
DRM 2003. 2003 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management. October 27, 2003. The Wyndham City Center Washington DC, USA. http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigsac/ccs/CCS2003/drm.html http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigsac/ccs/CCS2003/drm-prog.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#acmDRM2003
2003 ACM Workshop on XML Security. October 31, 2003. George W. Johnson Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigsac/ccs/CCS2003/XMLSec2003.html http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigsac/ccs/CCS2003/XMLSec2003-Program.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#acm2003XMLSec
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://xml.coverpages.org/pml-ons.html http://xml.coverpages.org/rfid.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#epcSymposium
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