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Using Web Services for Integration (179kb pdf)
A Darwin Partners and ZapThink Insight
WEB SERVICES: REDUCING THE COST OF INTEGRATION
With the downturn in today's economy, Web Services shine on organizations like a beacon of hope. Fueled by Microsoft's .Net initiative and IBM's WebSphere platform, Web Services promise a new level of compatibility across multiple technology platforms. Many vendors are pouring time and money into Web Services and bringing forth a new set of interoperability technologies: XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, to name a few.
XSLT - Efficient Programming Techniques (60kb pdf)
Prathit Bondre
With the growing popularity of XML as a medium to interact with different systems, more and more organizations are turning to XML to solve their interoperability issues. Also with architects trying to achieve a clear separation between display and business logic, XSLT is gaining importance. XSL, in itself, is an XML document tree (conforming to a specific DTD) that is applied to a data tree (XML document) to produce an output tree (HTML, WML etc).
High-Level Conceptual Model for B2B Integration (449kb pdf)
By the Business Internet Consortium XML Convergence Workgroup
This document is to be used as a high-level architecture guideline for Business-to-Business (B2B) integration. It will serve as a framework to collect customer requirements and analyze current B2B implementations. The requirements and architectural gaps identified could then be fed into B2B standard bodies to improve future B2B standard definitions. It could also be used as a blueprint for B2B customers and vendors as they plan for implementations and develop roadmaps for future B2B systems.
Implementing Enterprise-class Web services (100kb pdf)
A white paper for Architects and Developers
By Mark Jones
Web services are here. And, based on their widespread adoption, unprecedented cooperation amongst major vendors and rapid inclusion into the fabric of all things e-commerce, they appear to be here to stay. How well they live up to their lofty expectations and revolutionize the way businesses develop, deploy and share their information assets will be debated, documented and ultimately decided in the court of public opinion over the next few years. But, make no mistake about it Web services have definitely arrived.
The real question, and the one that will be hotly debated over the next few years, is how big an impact Web services will have in any given enterprise and how quickly. Will Web services revolutionize the software industry as many are predicting, or provide yet another evolutionary step forward? What will the adoption rate be? To answer these questions, read the attached.
UBL "Might Help".NET (338kb pdf)
Exclusive interview with Jon Bosak of Sun Microsystems
Interview by Jeremy Geelan, XML-Journal
If anyone ever forgets that XML is not a language but a metalanguage, or thinks that it's new (it's not - it builds on 30 years of research and 14 years of SGML standardi-zation), or doesn't realize that all XML languages can be processed by a single lightweight parser, or fails to see that its lack of limits on namespace or structural depth makes it powerful for data modeling...then Jon Bosak is definitely the man to set them straight. Officially titled Sun's "Distinguished Engineer," the highly articulate Bosak has been Sun Microsystems' point man involved with XML ever since a cross-industry group, organized and led by Sun, first drafted it as a simplified subset of SGML capable of supporting the definition of an unlimited number of special-purpose languages optimized for
different specific industries and domains. The rest, as they say, is history.
Intelligent Finance - XML Web Services In Action (13kb pdf)
By Brandt Dainow
bd@internet-etc.com
Halifax Bank in England recently launched an online bank called Intelligent Finance (www.if.com). An XML application, Intelligent Finance represents a great example of how to use the conversion of legacy systems into online applications as an opportunity to add functionality while extending reach. XML Web Services have been used to integrate client browsers and mobile phones with legacy mainframe banking systems to create a new type of online bank, offering financial services never seen before.
UBL: The Next Step for Global E-Commerce,
Written by the OASIS UBL Marketing Sub-committee
December 26, 2001
43 kb PDF Format
StarOffice 6.0 (compressed XML)
XML is often described as the lingua franca of e-commerce. The implication is that by standardizing on XML, enterprises will be able to trade with anyone, any time, without the need for the costly custom integration work that has been necessary in the past. But this vision of XML-based "plug-and-play" commerce is overly simplistic. Of course XML can be used to create electronic catalogs, purchase orders, invoices, shipping notices, and the other documents needed to conduct business. But XML by itself doesn't guarantee that these documents can be understood by any business other than the one that creates them. XML is only the foundation on which additional standards can be defined to achieve the goal of true interoperability. The Universal Business Language (UBL) initiative is the next step in achieving this goal.
XML Going Wireless (12.03MB pdf)
By Jonathan Knudsen
The Java platform is undergoing the second revolution of its brief history. The first was the dramatic rise of servlets, the Java programs that are the building blocks of Web applications. Java's second revolution is in small devices...and it's happening right now.
EBXML, The Global Standard for Electronic Business (26kb pdf)
By Dale Waldt and Rik Drummond
The Internet and the World Wide Web have dramatically changed the way companies can do business. E-business, or business processes conducted over the Internet, has seen a dramatic increase in just a few short years - but there is still a long way to go especially for small and medium business use of the internet.
XML on Capitol Hill
The Role of XML and Related Standards in Government and Legal Communities (30kb pdf)
By Dale Waldt, Contributor to xml.org
Recently in Washington, DC, the first Congressional Office on the Application of XML (COAX) was held in the Longmont Building of the US House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The event was attended by more than 70 people from academia, government bodies, commercial publishing companies, legal entities, not-for-profit organizations, and standards and special interest groups. What was discussed? XML-related activities within the Federal Government, technology and standards in the structured information arena and use of XML in the legal community.
XML.org Expands As Online Resource for XML in Industry:
The Significance and Importance of Standards and Community (7kb pdf)
by Leo Kraunelis
Change seems to be the steady-state condition in the XML world. Ideas, initiatives, and standards continue to spin off at an accelerated rate within an ever-expanding XML user community. The topic has made its way into every corporate corner-from the lunchroom to the boardroom. Anyone who has been trying to keep up with XML's rapid growth and its spiraling impact in the marketplace knows what a challenge it is to harness this fluid, dynamic information flow and stay abreast of the crucial news and trends directly affecting technologists, developers, and businesspeople. Here at XML.org, already one of the community's most recognizable and notable web sites, we're working to keep ahead of the curve.
Web Services Security (1MB pdf)
Contributed by XML Journal for September Issue, 2001
The Web Services model is rapidly growing as an option for deploying reusable, component based functionality over the Internet. Exposing these services is SOAP, which defines a lightweight mechanism for invoking these services or transactions. This article introduces you to the pluggable provider for Apache SOAP, and how a provider can be implemented to enable user level security.
Web Services, Business Objects and Component Models (800+KB pdf)
by Philippe Mougin & Christophe Barriolade, Orchestra Networks, July, 2001
This paper provides an in-depth critical discussion based on Orchestra Networks experience with web services technologies and component models. Technologies such as SOAP, XML, .Net, EJB, COM, CORBA, JDO, JAXP, JDOM etc. are compared and discussed in the context of web services and business object modeling. (local cached copy)
Pros and Cons of XML
by Ron Schmelzer, ZapThink, July 9, 2001
A lot has been written, said, and discussed about XML. As a result, there is a lot of confusion and chaos regarding exactly what XML means. Is it a language, document, modeling tool, e-Business application, or none of the above? What exactly does XML have to offer? Why does it matter? Furthermore, what does XML bring to the table that other languages, documents, tools, and applications have not been able to do in myriad other ways?
XML training wheels
by Doug Tidwell, Cyber evangelist, developerWorks, June, 2001
An XSLT and Java-based tool for producing tutorials with code samples that demonstrate techniques used in generating a truckload of HTML panels full of custom graphics, ZIP and PDF files from a single XML source document
Inside UDDI
by Richard Karpinski, InternetWeek June 07, 2001
A nuts-and-bolts look at how UDDI works and how IT can get started using it today.
Time for Consolidation
by Leigh Dodds, XML.com, June 06, 2001
Is XML changing the way applications are being designed? And if so, what tools do you use to model these applications? The XML-Deviant considers these questions following a lengthy XML-DEV discussion.
Special Report: The Language Of XML Security
by Pete Lindstrom, Network Magazine, 06/05/2001
While XML documents must be protected from prying eyes and the corrupting influences of the Internet, XML can also be a security tool for many applications.
Soapbox: Why XML Schema beats DTDs hands-down for data
by Kevin Williams, Chief XML Architect, Equient, June 2001
A look at four data features of XML Schema that are particularly suited to data representation, with code samples
Understanding ebXML, UDDI and XML/EDI
by David Webber and Anthony Dutton, XMLGlobal, October 2000.
An insightful comparison and explanation of ebXML, UDDI, XML and EDI standards.
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