News, articles and programs about XML, SOA, web services and semantics. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com Copyright 2007 Ken North Computing, LLC knc@SQLSummit.com knc@SQLSummit.com http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/images/WSSLogo120.jpg http://www.WebServicesSummit.com 120 42 WebServicesSummit logo 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. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/events/ldp2008.htm 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. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/news.htm 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. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/news.htm 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. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/Articles/DocsAsApps.htm Middleware from DataDirect Technologies, a Progress Software Company, provides database connectivity and data access using ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET and XML. http://www.datadirect.com/?=http://www.WebServicesSummit.com 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. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/news.htm 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. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/news.htm 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. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/news.htm 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". http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/DFlorescu.htm 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. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/Trends/TechTrends1/ComputingTrends_part1.htm 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. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/news.htm 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. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/news.htm 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. http://www.db2mag.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=191502768 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. http://www.SQLSummit.com/XQueryProv.htm 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. http://www.SQLSummit.com/People/WCunningham.htm In this excerpt from PROFESSIONAL XML DEVELOMENT WITH APACHE TOOLS, Ted Leung explains XML Encryption and how to setup the XML Security software from the Apache Software Foundation. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/Excerpts/ApacheTools.htm Dr. Daniela Florescu of Oracle suggests the direction the industry should be taking with XML and XQuery processing. She stipulates XML is more than a technology for documentation and data interchange and that we haven't exploited it to its fullest potential. Dana emphasizes the use of declarative programming instead of processing XML with imperative or procedural techniques. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/People/DFlorescu.htm#DeclarativeXML Bruce Tate, author of Beyond Java and several Java books, explains why discontent with Java is resonating within the developer community. He observes developers are abandoning Java in favor of lightweight solutions for creating web applications. Bruce discusses the Spring framework for J2EE applications and Ruby on Rails for database-powered web applications. He also talks about topics such as aspect-oriented programiing, weak vs. strong typing and application frameworks. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/Articles/MovingPastJava.htm Miko Matsumura suggests we can think of SOA programming in the context of Three C's. They are configuration, composition and customization. He explains the role of a registry/repository as an enabling technology for SOAs. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/Articles/ProgrammingSOA.htm Madhu Siddalingaiah explores the Java Reflection API and exploiting the structure of Java class files as a grammar. He suggests that using XML is not as efficient as parsing the binary class files. He explains the source code for a simple, effective parser for reading Java class files. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/Articles/MadhuOct2005_1.htm Organizations with applications and services that use XML, XSLT, SOAP and XML databases should be aware of security problems such as XML injection and buffer overruns. Vulnerabilities related to handling XML documents and messages have been detected in libraries, development and deployment platforms, database software and virtual machines. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/Vulnerabilities.htm Barry Tauber, the International Representative of the INCITS J4 COBOL committee, explains the new COBOL standard. He provides an overview of XML processing and what to look for in the upcoming standard's support of XML. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/Trends/COBOL_XML.htm WebServicesSummit.com released the latest in a series of webcasts and podcasts about security for XML, web services and grid computimng. The newest releases are available as video for MP4 players, Windows Media Player, Real Player and portable devices such as Pocket PC and Palm Zire. In "Federated Identities: Overlooked Threats", Thor Larholm explains the benefits and threats of federated identities. Thor is a Senior Security Researcher at PivX Solutions (running time 9:03). The second webcast, "Security Taxonomy of Web Services and Distributed Systems", is a 14:48 presentation by Kevin Dick. Kevin is CEO of Network Resonance, a company that recently patented a secure network auditing technology. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/index.htm WebServicesSummit.com released another of a series of podcasts and videos about security for XML, SOA and web services. "Web Services Security Universe" is a presentation by Ken North to the SDSIC web services conference at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He discusses web services adoption, security issues, and solutions for encryption, authentication, authorization and non-repudiation (podcast / MP3 audio: running time 13:03). http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/Multimedia/KNorth_SDSC.mp3 WebServicesSummit.com released (MP3 audio) podcasts of an expert panel discussion featuring Ron Bourret (XML-DBMS), Dana Florescu (Oracle), Michael Kay (Saxonica), Jonathan Robie (DataDirect Technologies) and Michael Rys (Microsoft). The panelists discuss XQuery, SQL/XML, native XML databases and XML-enabled databases. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/news.htm#XQueryExpertPanel.htm Peter Alesso explains the convergence of semantics with web services by complementing SOAP and WSDL with technologies such as the Web Ontology Language for Services (OWL-S), Semantic Web Rules Language (SWRL) and Web Services Modeling Ontology (WSMO). http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/Excerpts/BuildingSemanticWS.htm In Modeling XML Applications with UML, David Carlson explains behavior diagrams, structure diagrams and how to model XML vocabularies with UML. http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/Excerpts/ModelingXMLwithUML.htm This audiocast explains the operation of the ebXML Registry in a heterogeneous software environment. Presented by David RR Webber, Ashique Tanveer and Anthony Ton (MP3 audio/podcast, running time 48:07). http://www.WebServicesSummit.com/People/DWebber.htm Dr. Michael Rys of Microsoft discusses XQuery, SQL:2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 extensions for XML processing. http://www.SQLSummit.com/People/MRys.htm Oracle standards architect, Jim Melton, editor of the SQL standard, discusses SQL:2003 and the fusion of SQL and XQuery. http://www.SQLSummit.com/People/JMelton.htm