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Cover Pages Newsletter September 10, 2005 Website: http://xml.coverpages.org
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Featured News Stories Selected Articles and Papers 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/covernews.xml [RSS]
OASIS Advances CAP and Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Specifications
The OASIS Emergency Management TC has advanced two specifications toward standardization, and commences work on a third XML-related standard for messaging within the Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) suite. CAP v1.1 defines a simple/general format for exchanging all-hazard emergency alerts and public warnings over any network. EDXL Distribution Element standardizes a message distribution framework for data sharing across emergency information systems.
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NLETS: Standards-Based Web Services Martin Gillespie, RedNova
National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System (NLETS) is taking on a leading role in the nation's chief public safety challenge: delivering secure, reliable, standards-based information-sharing services for the justice and public safety community. The array of information conveyed over NLETS now extends from driver license and vehicle information to criminal histories, "hit" confirmations and immigration records, from AMBER alerts to locate and protect endangered children, to drug investigations, aircraft registrations, hazardous material warnings, weather bulletins and terrorism alerts. ATS installed its Pyramid XML Message Router (XMR) at NLETS to achieve the full value of XML and Web Services. The ATS product uses Microsoft Windows Server 2003 along with Microsoft's.NET framework,, helping NLETS lead the first-responder community in the use of Internet technologies for mission-critical information exchange compliant with the Department of Justice's Global XML Data Model. http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=236778 http://www.nlets.org/
Grid in Action: Monitor and Discover Grid Services in an SOA/Web Services Environment Jeff Mausolf, IBM developerWorks
This article talks about using the open source information service in Globus Toolkit 4. It introduces the Globus Monitoring and Discovery Service (MDS), discusses the components that make up MDS, and describes how other services typically interact with MDS in a grid environment. The Globus Monitoring and Discovery System (MDS) is a collection of Web services to monitor and discover the resources and services available in a grid. People typically think that the resource discovery process is related to discovering new resources as the name may imply. However, in grid context, resource discovery is the systematic process of determining which grid resource is the best candidate to complete a job in the shortest amount of time with the most efficient use of resources. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/grid/library/gr-gt4mds/ http://www.globus.org/toolkit/
Reference Model for Service Oriented Architectures. OASIS SOA Reference Model TC, Working Draft 08
This Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model is an abstract framework for understanding significant entities and relationships amongst them within a service-oriented environment, and for the development of consistent standards or specifications supporting that environment. It is based on unifying concepts of SOA and may be used by architects developing specific services oriented architectures or for education and explaining SOA. A reference model is not directly tied to any standards, technologies or other concrete implementation details, but it does seek to provide a common semantics that can be used unambiguously across and between different implementations. http://xml.coverpages.org/soa.html#SOA-RM-WD08 http://xml.coverpages.org/SOA-RM-WD08.pdf http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/soa-rm/
FERA-based SOA Information Model, Run-Time SOA, and SOA Collaboration Semantics Semantion, Inc., Technical Contribution
Semantion Inc. contributed its FERA-based SOA specification documents to the OASIS Electronic Business Service Oriented Architecture (ebSOA) TC. SOA IM can be stored in a standard registry like OASIS ebXML Registry or OASIS UDDI and used to provide informational support for both context and content related to any business process. The SOA IM is presented in a form of an open standard-based XML document referred to as the Collaborative Process Information Document (CPID) that can be either created manually or generated from a business process definition using a visual modeling tool. The main components of the FERA reference architecture are: federates, interfaces, and SOA Federation. Each participant involved in the collaboration is called a federate (systems or people). http://xml.coverpages.org/soa.html#Semantion http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebsoa/
Adobe Upgrade Steps Up BPM Competition Doug Henschen, Intelligent Enterprise
Adobe today released significant enhancements to its Adobe LiveCycle server platform. Key improvements include a new component-based workflow and embedded business activity monitoring capabilities aimed at "closed-loop" process improvement. The upgrades push Adobe deeper into process automation and backend server-based technology and will stiffen competition with giants including Microsoft and IBM. What sets Adobe's approach apart is the combination of process notation and coding through modular Quick Process Action Components (QPACs). LiveCycle will ship with 50 out-of-the-box QPACs, including common process tasks such as "send an e-mail," "integrate with database," "route to person" and "kick off Web service." http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/process/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170700684 http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/livecycle/devcenter.html
Iona Joins Eclipse, Proposes SOA Effort Paul Krill, InfoWorld
Melding the contemporary concepts of SOA and open source, Iona Technologies is announcing its participation in the Eclipse Foundation and will propose an Eclipse SOA Tools Platform project [within 30-60 days]. The company is joining as an Eclipse Strategic Developer and will serve on the open source tools organization's board of directors, which votes on Eclipse policies. Iona's SOA tools proposal would constitute the ninth top-level project at Eclipse, among other projects such as the Web tools and data tools projects. http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/09/09/HNionaeclipse_1.html http://eclipse.org/
Enterprise-Wide Network Management with OpenNMS Tarus Balog, O'Reilly SysAdmin
OpenNMS is a platform that allows users to add network management features over time. Anyone with a useful piece of management code is welcome to submit it to the project; the application design itself allows for expansion.Currently OpenNMS focuses on three areas: service polling, data collection, and event management. The current development version of OpenNMS adds support for SNMP version 3, as well a new JMX data collector for gathering information from sources such as JBoss and Tomcat. It also introduces a new "alarms" subsystem, which improves event management by reducing duplicate events and adding some automated event manipulation (such as increasing severity over time). http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2005/09/08/opennms.html
Learn XQuery in 10 Minutes Michael Kay, Stylus Studio White Paper
This article is for all those people who really want to know what XQuery is, but don't have the time to find out. XQuery was devised primarily as a query language for data stored in XML form. So its main role is to get information out of XML databases -- this includes relational databases that store XML data, or that present an XML view of the data they hold. Some people are also using XQuery for manipulating free-standing XML documents, for example, for transforming messages passing between applications. In that role XQuery competes directly with XSLT, and which language you choose is largely a matter of personal preference. In fact, some people like XQuery so much that they are even using it for rendering XML into HTML for presentation. http://www.stylusstudio.com/xquery_primer.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlQuery.html
XML Indexes in SQL Server 2005 Bob Beauchemin, Microsoft MSDN Library
One of the main reasons for the success of the relational database has been the inclusion of the SQL language. SQL is a set-based declarative language. This article explains how to use the relational query engine in SQL Server 2005 to make a single query plan for the SQL and XQuery parts of your queries, and how to make the implementation of XML queries fast and easy to predict and tune. XML indexes should be managed like other indexes with respect to dropping and recreating the indexes in conjunction with bulk loading, index defragmenting, and other database administration techniques. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/xmlindexes.asp http://www.w3.org/XML/Query
Atom Link No Follow James M. Snell, IETF Network Working Group Internet-Draft
An initial individual IETF Internet Draft has been published for "Atom Link No Follow," presenting a mechanism that allows Atom feed publishers to express preferences for how an Atom consumer should processe Atom links and Content-By-Reference. It thus conveys information to applications consuming Atom documents how they should handle links and referenced content contained within the feed. For example, a publisher may include an enclosure link within a feed but may not wish for applications to automatically download the enclosed file when it processes the feed; or, the publisher may not wish to allow applications to archive or index the enclosure in any way. http://xml.coverpages.org/draft-snell-atompub-feed-nofollow-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/atom.html
September 10: Software Freedom Day 2005 Boni David, Software Freedom International News
Celebrated worldwide on September 10, 2005, Software Freedom Day "is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Over 200 teams registered, with plans to celebrate Free Software at schools, universities, parks, and many other public places. Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of (FOSS) desicated to the education of the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business. An official motion in the Scottish Parliament congratulates the organisers of Software Freedom Day for working to highlight the Free and Open Source Software movement. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ http://www.theopencd.org/
Health IT Standards Body in the Offing Mary Mosquera, Government Computer News
[U.S.] Health and Human Services secretary Michael Leavitt named the members of the public/private organization that will set standards to enable the exchange of health care data; he will select seventeen (17) members from federal and state government and from industry, including health care providers, insurers and IT vendors, to form the American Health Information Community. AHIC also will choose the use cases for which standards will be implemented. Leavitt suggested electronic prescribing and bio-surveillance as early use cases. The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina has heightened the need for bio- and pandemic surveillance and interoperability standards to allow sharing of data, for example, from emergency rooms. Interoperability will jump-start a market and spur adoption of such health IT systems as electronic health records. Katrina destroyed the paper medical records of thousands of New Orleans evacuees, many of whom are ill and no longer have medications. http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36905-1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/healthcare.html
CA, IBM Join in Open Patent Pledge Clint Boulton, InternetNews.com
Rivals Computer Associates International and IBM have agreed to exchange software license rights and releases in a bid to bring technologies to the public for open source development. The cross- license patent agreement means that CA is joining IBM in encouraging other companies to create a "patent commons." CA said it will open up access to software covered by 14 of its U.S. patents, along with counterparts of these patents issued in other countries. Access would be for individuals and groups working on open source software. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3546891 http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-08-10-a.html
GPL 3 May Contain Patent Retaliation Clause Ingrid Marson, ZDNet UK
The next version of the GPL may contain a clause to penalise companies that use software patents against free software. GPL version 3, a draft of which will be released in January 2006, may contain a patent retaliation clause, Georg Greve, the president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Europe, said on Tuesday. Such a clause would mean that if a company accused a free software product of infringing its software patents, that company would lose the right to distribute that product. Joachim Jakobs from FSF Europe said such a clause would only affect companies that used their software patents against free software. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39216717,00.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/patents.html
Why Google Hired Vint Cerf Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com
What will Internet visionary Vint Cerf do for Google? Whether he meant to or not, Cerf hinted at one area he was interested in six weeks before he joined the search giant, and it deals with a wireless device near you. Cerf is the man who co-developed the basic communications protocol of the Internet. In a broad-ranging interview with CNET News.com, Cerf said databases filled with geographically indexed material will soon help people easily retrieve lists of local hospitals, ATMs or cafes on mobile devices. Advertisements could also be part of the mix. Cerf mused: "This ability to turn geographically indexed data into useful, possibly life-saving, and potentially (money-making) data is extremely exciting." http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5855650.html
Plumtree Portals To Aid Web Services Devs Vance McCarthy, Integration Developer News
Plumtree's EDK (Enterprise developer Kit) is designed to blend portal and web services technologies to more easily enable enterprise devs to design, build and deploy composite applications that bring together mid-tier Java and .NET assets with legacy code residing in backend ERP systems such as SAP, Siebel and PeopleSoft. For extra control of source code, EDK also lets devs modify that code using a Model-View- Controller (MVC) approach, which allows devs to embed more than 30 core functions into applications using simple XML tags instead of complex code. http://idevnews.com/CaseStudies.asp?ID=172 http://www.plumtree.com/developers/edk/
Securing Service-Oriented Applications Anthony Nadalin, et al., IBM developerWorks
This article is Part 7 in the series 'SOA Programming Model for Implementing Web Services.' An SOA programming model must ensure that each service invocation adheres to security policies that are valid for both the requester and service endpoint. The security infrastructure -- including the ability to authenticate requesters and authorize their access to services, propagate security context across Web service requests based on an underlying trust model, audit significant events, and effectively protect data and content -- forms a fabric of the SOA environment that helps secure components and services. At the core of all SOA security is a policy-based infrastructure and management of the policies. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-soa-progmodel7/ http://xml.coverpages.org/ws-security.html
XHTML Microformats for the Atom Publishing Protocol Robert Sayre, (Individual) Internet Draft
Atom Publishing Protocol client implementations require a fair amount of ancillary server-provided data in order to provide a smooth user experience. Rather than invent a plethora of new XML formats, this specification chooses to present a number of XHTML profiles, colloquially known as 'microformats'. hCat is an XHTML profile for encoding the three standard attributes of Atom category elements. By providing a definition list containing encoded category information, servers can present clients with a list of known categories in an XHTML definition list. hCat also allows description of endpoints for category editing through a simple HTTP-based protocol. http://xml.coverpages.org/draft-sayre-atompub-xhtml-micro-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/atom.html#internetDrafts
OpenOffice.org Releases Second Beta Version of its 2.0 Suite Gene J. Koprowski and Sean Gallagher, eWEEK
After a review of about 600 software bugs, the second beta version of OpenOffice.org 2.0, featuring the OASIS-approved XML file format, has been released for testing. A new version of OpenOffice.org 2.0 is being released for beta in advance testing this week, the second beta release of the free software available for computer users. OpenOffice.org is available as a free download for Windows, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and Sun's Solaris platform. Versions for additional operating systems and computing platforms are in the works. The suite features a number of improvements over the first release of OpenOffice.org, including a new database module that makes the database features of the suite more accessible. It also introduces support for the OASIS OpenDocument XML file format. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1854812,00.asp http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1855892,00.asp
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Selected references from the events calendar: http://xml.coverpages.org/conferences2005.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
Enterprise Management World 2005. September 12 - 14, 2005. Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, North Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Covers management standards initiatives such as CIM (Common Information Model), WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management), SMASH (Systems Management Architecture for Service Hardware) Server Management, and Utility Computing. http://www.emwusa.com/index.html http://xml.coverpages.org/computingResourceManagement.html
National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR) Inaugural Event. October 27, 2005. Buffalo, NY, USA.
NCOR is coordinating collaborative research in several broad areas of ontological theory, ontology design, implementation, and application. It has a special focus on the establishment of tools and measures for quality assurance of ontologies. http://ncor.buffalo.edu/inaugural/ http://ncor.us/
RuleML-2005: International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web. November 10 - 12, 2005, Galway, Ireland.
Theme: rule languages for reactive and proactive rules, complex event processing, and event-driven rules, for applications on the Semantic Web. Covers: syntax and semantics of rule languages, translations and interoperability between rule languages, associated theory, execution engines and processing models, implemented systems, use cases, and deployed applications. http://2005.ruleml.org http://xml.coverpages.org/ruleML.html
OWLED-2005. OWL: Experiences and Directions. November 11 - 12, 2005, Galway, Ireland.
The W3C OWL Web Ontology Language has now been a W3C recommendation for more than one year. OWL is playing an important role in an increasing number and range of applications, and is the focus of research into tools, reasoning techniques, formal foundations, language extensions etc. The aim of the workshop is to establish a forum for practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers and others to set an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based technologies into new applications. http://www.mindswap.org/2005/OWLWorkshop/ http://www.mindswap.org/2005/OWLWorkshop/committees.shtml
SOBPI 2005: First International Workshop on Service-Oriented Business Processes Integration. December 12, 2005. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and experts in business models and management and to promote cross-fertilization among their competencies, focusing on the usage of service oriented technologies to support the Business Processes Integration (BPI). http://elab.njit.edu/sobpi http://elab.njit.edu/sobpi/cfp.pdf
ICSOC 2005: Third International Conference on Service Oriented Computing. December 12 - 15, 2005. Mercure Hotel Amsterdam aan de Amstel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Aims to be the main reference conference for service oriented computing and web services, by covering the entire spectrum from theoretical and foundational results to empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences. The conference has several associated workshops (DWP-workshop, WDSOA 2005, WESC 2005, Mediate 2005, SOBPI). http://www.icsoc.org/ http://www.deri.at/events/workshops/mediate2005/
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