XML and Web Services In The News - Thursday 27 February 2003

XML, SOAP and Binary Data
Adam Bosworth, Don Box, Martin Gudgin, Mark Nottingham, David Orchard, and Jeffrey Schlimmer.From XML.com.
This white paper discusses the architectural issues encountered when using opaque non-XML data in XML applications, including, but not limited to, Web services and SOAP.

WS-I Announces Board Nominations
Darryl K. Taft, eWEEK
The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) has announced the nominations for two openings on the organization's board of directors. Representatives from Cape Clear Software Inc., Nokia Corp., SeeBeyond Technology Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., VeriSign Inc. and webMethods Inc. have been nominated.

OASIS Takes On Reliability Spec for Web Services
John Fontana, Network World
OASIS announced that it is forming a Web Services Reliable Messaging (WS-RM) technical committee that will develop a specification to [help] guarantee the delivery of messages between applications, especially those executing business transactions.

Find Meaning In Your Data
Ross Bentley, CW360.com
Online analytical processing (Olap) is a method of extracting business information by organising data into "dimensions" such as product, sales territory, customers and sales period. XML for Analysis is an XML-based Olap application programming interface developed by Microsoft, Hyperion and the SAS Institute.

A Look at Six Development Tools that Support Mobile Web Services
David Hakala, Wireless Week
With as many as 15 percent of all developers working on mobile applications, new development tools and extensions to established IDEs have been popping up to support mobile Web services developers. The author reviews half-dozen.

RosettaNet Software Interoperability Trials Test RNIF Connectivity Software.
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RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF) connectivity software from ten vendors was tested in recent RosettaNet Software Interoperability Trials. The successful completion of the trials is expected to accelerate mass adoption of RosettaNet Standards through reduced time and costs. Each of the ten participating companies was required to successfully perform a suite of thirty-six (36) test scenarios with every other participant.