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- Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Distinguished Faculty Set for LinkedData Planet in New York City (June 17-18, 2008)
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, is part of the lineup of distinguished speakers from industry and academia who are speaking at LinkedData Planet. The conference runs June 17-18, 2008 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The conference theme is the confluence of enterprise computing, semantic and data integration for web applications such as the Semantic Web and Web 3.0. - WSO2 Announces Web Services Framework for Spring
WSO2 announced release of the WSO2 Web Services Framework for Spring 1.0. WSF/Spring 1.0 provides flexibility to developers to using the open Source Spring Framework. It enables developers to adopt a "code first" or "contract first" methodology for creating web services. WSF/Spring 1.0 also integrates with the Grails for rapid development of web services. - Active Endpoints Releases Reference Implementation of BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask
Active Endpoint announced the release of ActiveVOS 5.0, the newest release of the company's visual orchestration product. ActiveVOS 5.0 supports orchestration based on specifications such as BPEL4People, WS-HumanTask, WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, and WS-Policy. - Documents as Applications
Unlike portal-style applications, documents persist as self-contained artifacts. Many business processes are document-centric. Jake Sorofman explores documents as a view of information organized with intent and purpose. He discusses the benefits of merging the context and persistence of documents with the interactivity of applications. - Advert: ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET Middleware and XML Solutions from DataDirect Technologies
Middleware from DataDirect Technologies, a Progress Software Company, provides database connectivity and data access using ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET and XML. - White Paper Examines Best-of-Breed Middleware
A white paper from Ken North Computing discusses the role and importance of data access middleware. "Middleware in Action" describes how middleware plugs into architectures for distributed applications and services, including SOA and ESB. It explains defining characteristics of best-of-breed data access middleware, including features for performance and scalability. The 90-page report and a separate executive summary provide a features checklist for comparing database drivers and data providers. - University of Konstanz Database Group Announces BaseX
The Database and Information Systems Group at the University of Konstanz announced BaseX version 4.0, a native XML database implementation. BaseX is an open-source project that supports XQuery 1.0, content-based indexes and partial support of XQuery Full-Text. - Pixware Releases XMLmind XML Editor Version 3.7
Pixware's XMLmind division announced the release of version 3.7 of the XMLmind XML Editor. The new release adds support for DITA DTD 1.1 and includes DITA Open Toolkit version 1.4. It has no restriction on schemas and supports DTD, W3C XML Schema, Relax NG and Schematron. - XQuery in Five Minutes
Daniela Florescu of Oracle, a principal developer of the W3C XML Query Language, made the case for XQuery with a CIDR 2005 conference presentation titled "XQuery in Five Minutes". - 21st Century Technology Trends Presentation
This presentation takes a look at servers, web services, SOA, grid computing, data models, price-performance, Linux, open source, .NET, J2EE, data mining, vector databases, ubiquitous connectivity, and bio-electrical links. This is an expanded HTML version of the keynote address at Enterprise Data Forum in Philadelphia. - Reshaping and Restructuring XML
Michael M. David, writing for SQLSummit.com, explores two approaches to transforming XML hierarchical data structures. He explains the difference between restructuring and reshaping XML data, with the latter driven by the semantics of the data structure. - Security Flaws Undermine SOA, Web Services and Networking Infrastructure
Security vulnerabilities with the OpenSSL toolkit can lead to buffer overruns, denial-of-security attacks, forging of digital certificates and compromising of confidential information. The OpenSSL problems follow confirmation that cryptography researchers have broken the SHA, SHA-1 and MD5 hashes. Those flaws and recent cryptography breakthroughs heighten concerns about digital certificates used for authentication and secure communications. - XML in Focus
IBM DB2 9 adds an XML type, new indexing methods and other capabilities for operating with XML in databases. Ken North takes a look at DB2 pureXML technology and implications for SOA, web services and content processing. - Update to Catalog of XQuery Engines and Processors
The latest update to the SQLSummit Catalog of XQuery Engines, Processors and Providers adds Synchro Soft, Ltd. There are now 48 XQuery implementations in the catalog. - Father of Wiki, Ward Cunningham, Discusses Eclipse, Wiki and Agile Development
In an exclusive podcast/audiocast interview, Ward Cunningham discusses social software, the Eclipse Foundation and organizing for collaborative software development. In the 20-minute interview, Cunningham discussed Eclipse, wiki, agile development, extreme programming (XP) and his personal style of development.
