Articles by XML News Desk

Vordel 5.1 Puts Policy Control at the Heart of XML Networks

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:45:00 EDT

Vordel unveiled version 5.1 of its XML network infrastructure products, to accelerate, manage and protect XML applications. Vordel 5.1 addresses the need for lifecycle management of policy across the SOA. By combining the central management of SOA policies with distributed enforcement across a network of XML gateways, organizations generate increased returns on IT architecture and maximize their SOA investments.

How to Enable High Speed Parsing of Very Large XML Files

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EDT

As the number of XML files in enterprise organizations significantly increases, architects, application developers, and data integration specialists must deal simultaneously with the growing number of XML formatted messages on the network as well as their rapidly expanding file sizes. While XML has become the 'de facto' standard for transferring data from one step to the next in a business process or between applications, there are more and more occasions when files are easily exceeding 50-100MB in size, causing performance slow downs and memory overloads.

Minimize XML Performance Challenges and Boost Productivity

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Today's applications rely on data feeds from many sources, using technologies that are based on the use of XML. XML data descriptions can be complex often creating performance and scalability challenges for the enterprises. Efficient XML processing is the cornerstone of almost every Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment, regardless of the language or data center environment.

TX Text Control With Office Open XML (DOCX) Support

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EDT

TX Text Control has been setting the standard in the software component industry for more than seventeen years. Today, The Imaging Source - the manufacturer of these word processing components - has just announced version 14.0 with many improvements and much technical innovation. Demand from the component's customer base to add support for MS Word standard Office Open XML (DOCX) has been strong.

JustSystems, SEC, XBRL International, EDGAR Online Lead XBRL Survival Course

Wed, 21 May 2008 10:45:00 EDT

XBRL can help to transform business, dramatically simplifying filing and reporting and improving transparency and information access in ways never before imaginable. Now, SEC Chairman Cox says an XBRL mandate is on its way. In an upcoming Webinar, JustSystems, the SEC, XBRL International, and EDGAR Online will discuss how XBRL turns flat, one-dimensional information into live, interactive information that reveals its full context. Suddenly, financial data is universally accessible, richly contextual and highly comparable.

JustSystems Contributes Key XBRL Rendering Technology to Financial Community

Mon, 05 May 2008 17:30:00 EDT

JustSystems announced that it is contributing intellectual property rights for its invention of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) rendering technologies to XBRL International, the standards body responsible for the oversight of the XBRL specification. The invention, known as the 'formatting linkbase,' provides enabling technology for viewing XBRL data in financial and other business applications.

JustSystems Launches Campaign for XBRL Success

Mon, 05 May 2008 17:15:00 EDT

JustSystems announced its campaign to help organizations adopt XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), the XML-based standard for communicating financial and business information. In related news, JustSystems also announced that it has contributed intellectual property rights of the 'formatting linkbase,' a key JustSystems innovation that enables formatted rendering of XBRL information.

Benefitfocus Selects DataDirect XML Converters

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:45:00 EDT

DataDirect announced Benefitfocus is using DataDirect XML Converters to automatically transform thousands of X12 compliant EDI documents from insurance carriers to XML for accelerated processing. DataDirect XML Converters provide bi-directional, highly-scalable software that streams EDI, flat files or other legacy data formats as XML and back, making data accessible to any application in the enterprise. The high-performance Java and .NET components support past and current X12 and HL7 EDI standards and provide a highly scalable streaming architecture to exceed the most demanding enterprise system requirements.

JustSystems Named "Cool Vendor" by Gartner

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:30:00 EDT

JustSystems was included in the list of 'Cool Vendors' in the 'Cool Vendors in Content Management, 2008' report by Gartner. The report was authored by Toby Bell, Mark R. Gilbert, and Rita E. Knox. According to Gartner, 'Cool vendors in content management are establishing new directions for established technologies which can benefit professionals engaged in valuable content-focused business processes. Making their lives simpler, and the content itself smarter, yields extremely rewarding results.'

JustSystems Champions "The Document as the Application"

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EDT

JustSystems announced the 'document as the application,' the company's vision for the future of information creation, collaboration, and delivery. JustSystems' 'document-as-application' approach blurs the line between traditional documents, which provide rich context, persistence and portability; and business applications, which provide live data and an interactive user experience. The result is a dynamic document that comes to life with diverse and distributed information sources that are always up to date.

Microsoft's OOXML Is Now Officially On a Par with HTML, PDF and ODF

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:45:00 EDT

As anticipated here at SYS-CON.com and elsewhere already yesterday, and despite world XML expert Tim Bray's observation - after the OOXML BRM - that the process is 'irretrievably broken,' Microsoft's OOXML has been announced today as the latest ISO standard - after more than 14 months of intensive review and controversy.

LogiXML Adds ETL Data Integration to Web-Based Business Intelligence Product Line

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:30:00 EDT

LogiXML announced the availability of the new Logi ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) product designed to support integration of enterprise data into a consistent format to support a variety of corporate applications. The new Logi ETL product is a Web-based data integration application that can transfer data from diverse sources to multiple destinations directly, be invoked by predefined processes, including scheduling, or be triggered by application actions. Although Logi ETL is part of Logi Unified BI Platform, the product can be used independently as well.

ANA Selects JustSystems' Dynamic Docs for Boeing 787 Dreamliners

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:00:00 EDT

JustSystems announced that All Nippon Airways ('ANA') has adopted JustSystems' dynamic document vision and the xfy document-centric composite application platform as the foundation of its new system for creating, editing, and managing aircraft rulebooks and operation manuals.

Layer 7 Technologies and Novell Team to Provide Identity Driven Security for XML Web Services

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:15:00 EDT

Layer 7 Technologies announced a go-to-market partnership with Novell to secure programmatic Web services, leveraging Novell eDirectory and Novell Access Manager identity solutions. Under the terms of the agreement Layer 7 will become a preferred partner joining Novell's identity and security management partner ecosystem to help address Web services security. End-users will benefit from an integrated best of breed approach to Web and Web services security.

Siemens PLM Software to Makeover Manufacturing

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Documents are a key part of manufacturing processes, from requirements and specifications, to bills, parts lists, marketing materials and technical maintenance manuals. However, documents typically provide static views of a dynamic business. In turn, documents can introduce design, development and maintenance delays, mistakes, rework costs and compliance issues that can rapidly erode profit margins, customer loyalty and time-to-market advantages.

TopQuadrant Software Imports Email MetaData into Enterprise-Class Semantic Applications

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:45:00 EDT

TopQuadrant announced that TopBraid Composer and TopBraid Live now include a Semantic email importer. This technology enables organizations to develop Semantic applications that combine email metadata with other data sources, which can be searched and analyzed. This allows organizations to answer business questions using a combination of data from email, relational databases, spreadsheets, XML, UML, RSS/Atom and Semantic data imported from GRDDL, RDFa, RDF triple stores, SPARQL endpoints.

World XML Expert Tim Bray on OOXML BRM: "The Process is Irretrievably Broken"

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:30:00 EST

The OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) in Geneva ended in tears. Sun's Tim Bray immediately recorded his thoughts on the meeting, and his verdict was withering: despite some good that perhaps came of it ('With a very few exceptions, everyone really tried hard to work together and make the document better,' he writes), he described the BRM process as 'complete, utter, unadulterated bullshit.'

New Strategy to Understand Technology Gets Spotlight Via TheMetaTechnology.com

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:15:00 EST

An online course about meta-technology, a new type of strategy to understand technology, has recently been launched online via the website, TheMetaTechnology.com. According to founder, Luca D'Angelo, 'Meta-technology is created by taking a piece of technology and modifying its standard input-process-output flow. By using meta-technology, we can experience a different type of interaction so when we use the original technology, we gain a deeper understanding of it. It's like going to the moon, experiencing a different gravity force, and then coming back to the world so we can have a deeper understanding of the world's gravity.'

EC Pokes Around OOXML

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:30:00 EST

The European Commission has started poking around the rough-and-tumble of the standardization process looking for evidence that Microsoft broke anti-competitive antitrust laws trying to get its Office Open XML format (OOXML) memorialized by ISO, according to a story last Friday in the Wall Street Journal.

DataDirect Technologies' XML Converters Streamline Data Integration for the Healthcare Industry

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:00:00 EST

DataDirect announced its DataDirect XML Converters are being used by leading healthcare organizations to comply with the X12 electronic data interchange (EDI) and Health Level Seven (HL7) clinical and administrative data standards in an effort to accelerate application development efforts, enhance operational efficiency, reduce overall costs and improve patient service levels.

ExtraLabs Software Unveils RSS Feed Editor 4.76

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:00:00 EST

ExtraLabs Software announced the release of Feed Editor 4.76. Designed for the Windows OS, this application enables you to create, edit and publish RSS feeds and podcasts surprisingly fast and easy. Compared to other RSS editors in its category, Feed Editor combines an unprecedented number of features, including a support for various RSS formats, a podcasting support, a WYSIWYG HTML editor, an XML editor, an RSS Feed preview, an FTP upload and publishing, automatic date management, and an ability to convert CSV or HTML to RSS and back and others.

Autonomy ZANTAZ Announces Compliance with the Newly Released EDRM XML Standard for Electronic Discovery

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:30:00 EST

ZANTAZ, an Autonomy company, announced that ZANTAZ Introspect is compliant with EDRM's Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard, EDRM XML 1.0. Autonomy ZANTAZ Introspect is one of the first e-discovery products to achieve compliance with the newly released XML standard, which was designed to improve interoperability and the transfer of electronically stored information (ESI) between applications involved in the discovery process.

Nuance Launches PDF Converter Professional 5 Software Family, Accelerates "Better PDF for Business"

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:45:00 EST

Nuance Communications unveiled PDF Converter Professional 5, the best selling PDF desktop alternative to Adobe Acrobat for government, corporate, and academic organizations. With the new release Nuance continues to expand on the features, quality and innovation needed to deliver 'Better PDF for Business' at a time when companies are looking to save money on IT solutions.

Eracent is Major Contributor to ISO/IEC 19770-2 IT Standard Development

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:15:00 EST

Eracent has been given a mission to create the XML schema definition for ISO/IEC 19770-2 standard draft. The ISO/IEC 19770-2 standard will define the asset tags for software Configuration items. The asset tags are files in xml format. The definition of the xml tags and values are the core of the standard, but it also needs the formal xml schema definition to avoid any confusion and to be able to validate the tags.

A7Soft JExamXML: A Free Java-Based XML Comparison Tool Has Been Released

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:15:00 EST

A7Soft has made a significant step in development XML related Java application. Releasing JExamXML, A7Soft transferred XML comparison technologies from the Windows application ExamXML to the industry standard Java platform, allowing mullions of XML developers to embed the XML differencing technologies into their application.

Response to Yahoo! Architect Douglas Crockford's Comments on XML

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:30:00 EST

Is JSON better than XForms? That's an apples and oranges argument. I am willing to predict that XForms + XQuery will become a powerful enterprise model for rich form content, because the enterprise is considerably more XML-centric than the consumer stack is. I'm willing to predict that JSON feeds to most mashups will likely end up being a mix of XML (primarily via feeds) and JSON for quite some time, though I'm inclined to suspect that AtomPub will likely tilt the balance of power towards XML in the long run.

Tail-f Systems and IP Infusion Partner to Deliver Carrier-Grade Solutions for Network Equipment Providers

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:00:00 EST

Tail-f Systems and IP Infusion announced a strategic partnership to integrate their products and collaborate on sales and marketing. Together the companies will enable network equipment providers to benefit from leading routing protocols managed by standards-based XML configuration management software.

DataDirect Launches New Release of XML Converters and XQuery Engine

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:45:00 EST

DataDirect Technologies announced the latest release of its DataDirect XML Converters and DataDirect XQuery products. With version 3.1 of its XML products, it offers even greater scalability and performance; broadens its support of popular databases and industry standards; and offers a highly scalable streaming architecture to exceed the most demanding data integration and enterprise system requirements.

Windows IT Pro Magazine Presents Altova XMLSpy with the "Best of Connections 2007" Award

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:00:00 EST

Altova announced that Altova XMLSpy was named as winner of the 'Best of Connections 2007' in the Office category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro. In the award?s first year, the judges reviewed over 60 IT products and services submitted for the contest and chose 18 finalists that were evaluated at Microsoft Connections in Las Vegas. Interviews were conducted, and winners were announced on the exhibit floor of the Connections conference.

AltovaXML and XMLSpy Win Numerous Awards in 2007

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EST

AltovaXML, a free XML standards processor, was named 'Best XML Parser' and 'Best XSLT Processor' in the 2007 SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards. XMLSpy, an XML editor and development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML-related technologies, won four awards in 2007.

JustSystems Touts XML Move from Back Office to Corner Office

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:00:00 EST

JustSystems, Inc. will promote XML?s evolving role at the XML 2007 Conference & Exposition, being held in Boston at the Marriott Copley Place on Dec. 3 ? 5, 2007. ?XML has grown up, with companies accelerating their XML adoption to support SOA and winding up with an abundance of highly-accessible information,? explained Jake Sorofman, vice president of marketing for JustSystems. ?All of a sudden, XML isn?t just about interoperability between disparate applications. It?s about making business-critical information available to executives, knowledge workers, and others who need it.?

Collaborative Licenses Web Services & XML Technology

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:30:00 EST

Collaborative Software, the company start-up by ex-Open Source Development Labs CEO Stuart Cohen, has licensed the Shared Assessment Programs created by BITS, the consortium of US financial houses intending to use it to create an open source program that makes vendor data more readily available through a Web Services front-end app for collecting and editing shared assessment submissions as well as an XML schema for validating them as XML documents. It's a compliance thing.

The Value of Complex Event Processing in SOA

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:30:00 EST

Complex Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) based SOA environments pose a whole new level of management challenges. This session will explore the nature of those challenges by illustrating the need for a Complex Even Processor (CEP) to proactively manage your ESB.

20/20 Interview Delays Murder Trial

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:00:00 EDT

It seems that ABC's 20/20 is going to do a piece on Linux file system programmer Hans Reiser and the murder case against him on Friday, November 2 and that that's one of the reasons the opening statements in his trial have been pushed back from Monday October 29 to Monday November 5. Concern about prejudicial information. Other reasons appear to be the number of pre-trial motions and the difficulty the defense has had in getting the reportedly 400-page file on the custody case over Reiser's two little kids out of Juvenile Court. His lawyer finally got it after the murder trial judge intervened.

Free Graphical XSD Editor & XML Editor: Liquid XML Studio

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:00:00 EDT

Liquid XML Studio is a free graphical XSD Editor & XML Editor that can also be used to edit WSDL and other XML based standards. It has a simple intuitive interface that makes developing for the complex W3C XML Schema (XSD) standard quick and easy. A validator is provided that strictly adheres to the W3C standard ensuring that the XML Schemas you produce are valid and correct.

Biometrics Goes Linux

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:45:00 EDT

DigitalPersona, the biometrics authentication folk, has moved its One Touch SDK to Linux so developers can create fingerprint-enabled Linux applications. It figures it would be good for embedded Linux platforms and standalone systems in retail, finance, healthcare and time and attendance applications. The widgetry is initially designated for 2.6 versions of SUSE and Slackware and developers can use C and C++ environments to integrate it into code that will run on PCs, servers, POS terminal or embedded devices.

Microsoft-Novell Interoperability Lab Opens

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:30:00 EDT

Microsoft and Novell have opened that interoperability lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts promised in their controversial November accord. The location is right under the nose of the disapproving Free Software Foundation. The idea is to build and support technologies that let Windows and SUSE Linux, unlike other strains of Linux, work well together starting with virtualization, then moving on to standards-based systems management, identity federation and document formats. The 2,500-square-foot lab reportedly houses 80 servers of varying architectures and a SAN.

Virtualization Player Citrix Snaps Up QuickTree's XML and Web Services Technology

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:45:00 EDT

'As Web 2.0 technologies for the enterprise emerge, we see the increasing need for the entire application delivery infrastructure to be more XML-fluent,' said Klaus Oestermann, vice president and general manager for application networking at Citrix Systems, Inc, as Citrix announced this week the acquisition of QuickTree's core technology and engineering talent.

Microsoft Looks for the Big Guns in OOXML In-Fighting

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:45:00 EDT

Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote 'yes' on ISO standardizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format, the one in competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) pushed by IBM and Sun.

Breaking News: ISO Fails To Ratify Open XML

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:45:00 EDT

Office Open XML (has not been ratified as a standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). An official ISO announcement is expected shortly. It was a close call: 74% of ISO countries voted to support Open XML as a standard. But for a standard to be ratified, you need 75%. France voted against, Hungary abstained.