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MSDN Webcast: BizTalk Server 2004 Business Rules for the Visual Studio .NET Developer - Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:00PM-2:30PM Pacific Time
3/3/2004
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BizTalk® Server 2004 introduces orchestration with "rules". This webcast will demystify the rules engine architecture, show how to build rules against XML, DB and .NET objects, and demonstrate how to model several rule building scenarios. Develpers will discover how rules can add power, flexibility and dynamic update capabilities to orchestrations.
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MSDN Webcast: Integrating BizTalk Server 2004 with SharePoint - Friday, March 05, 2004 - 9:00AM-10:30AM Pacific Time
3/3/2004
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This webcast will cover Design, Configuration, Interaction and Monitoring of business processes for the Information Worker using BizTalk® Server 2004 Business Activity Services along with Windows® SharePoint™ Services and InfoPath™. Additionally, Steve Resnick will demonstrate a custom-built adapter that reads and writes documents to SharePoint libraries similar to the way the built-in file adapter reads and writes to the file system. This adapter enables you to integrate XML documents stored in SharePoint with your back-end systems.
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MSDN Webcast: Extending Mainframe Applications using BizTalk Server 2004 and Host Integration 2004 - Friday, March 05, 2004 - 11:00AM-12:30PM Pacific Time
3/3/2004
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This webcast demonstates how to integrate your existing IBM mainframe assets with new enterprise solutions based on BizTalk® Server using Host Integration Server 2004. HIS provides the key enabling technologies you need to extend your IBM network, security, messaging, data and application systems running on these IBM host computers.
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MSDN Webcast: Using Web Services with BizTalk Server 2004 - Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 9:00AM-10:30AM Pacific Time
3/3/2004
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With BizTalk® Server 2004 you can orchestrate web services to build service orientated architectures. In this hands-on webcast Scott Woodgate will demonstrate how to consume and expose web services.
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Rick Jelliffe turns wiki text into XML -- via SGML!
3/3/2004
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Wikis are nice for typing. XML is nice for processing. SGML is a standard compiler compiler language for specifying conversions from one to the other. The nice thing about Wiki formats is that they reduces the number of keystrokes needed to mark a document up (to the level of very simple HTML) to the same number as a nice, swanky, custom application needs.
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Kendall Clark on the inaugural W3C Semantic Web Interest Group meeting.
3/3/2004
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I'm spending this week -- in my role as a researcher at the University of Maryland -- in Cannes-Mandelieu, France, at the W3C's 2004 Technical Plenary. Yes, Cannes is as beautiful as you might think. In fact, it's more beautiful than I imagined; it reminds me, somehow, of a cross between Seattle and Phoenix. Weird, I know, but trust me: you should plan a visit to the French Riviera if at all possible.
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Tom White describes how to use XML catalogs from Java.
3/3/2004
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XML documents often refer to other documents that an XML processor has to retrieve in order to make sense of the main document. These external resources, typically referred to by URIs, may be local files; or they may be remote, distributed across the web. In an ideal world the difference would be invisible, since it would be as cheap to access a remote resource as a local one. However, in the real world network failures do occur, and it is wise to design applications that take this into account.
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XyEnterprise Announces XML Professional Publisher (XPP) and XPP Web Services for HP-UX
3/3/2004
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XyEnterprise, the leading developer of XML content management and enterprise publishing software, announced today the availability of its leading XML publishing software – XML Professional Publisher (XPP) – on the HP-UX platform. XPP is used for automated and interactive publishing in XML publishing environments, providing unmatched support for XML content, automated rendering, and Web Services integration.
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Detailed cross-reference of the most important XML standards
3/3/2004
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The world of XML is vast and growing, with a huge variety of standards and technologies that interact in complex ways. It can be difficult for beginners to navigate the most important aspects of XML, and for users to keep track of new entries and changes in the space. XML is a basic syntax upon which you develop local and global vocabularies. Uche Ogbuji has presented the most important standards relating to XML in three in-depth articles. In this fourth article, he provides a detailed cross-reference of all the covered standards.
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Loading Properties from XML: Stop the key-value pair insanity
3/3/2004
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The Properties class is an old favorite, around since the beginning of Java programming time with very few changes. The Tiger release of J2SE enhances this class, which allows you not only to use it to specify key-value pairs on a single line separated by an equal sign, but also to use XML files to load and save those key-value pairs. In this installment of Taming Tiger, John Zukowski demonstrates how to use this updated work horse. Share your thoughts on this article with the author and other readers in the accompanying discussion forum. (You can also click Discuss at the top or bottom of the article to access the forum.)
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Filling Your Web Needs With RSS
3/3/2004
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You may have heard a new buzzword making the rounds. RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, could change the way we aggregate and read information from the Web and give companies a new way to deliver their messages directly to customers. But an ongoing standards battle may hurt the adoption of the technology before it really takes off.
RSS is simply an XML document, often called a "feed," that describes content generated from a Web site. This could be news, press releases or almost any other type of content. The beauty of RSS is that with a program that can read and aggregate different RSS feeds, users can access the content that's relevant to them without having to surf the Web or subscribe to e-mail newsletters. It's literally information at your fingertips. There are a number of free RSS readers, but my personal favorite is NewsGator, an aggregator from NewsGator Technologies that ties directly into Outlook and lets me read news there and post material to my personal weblog as well.
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BizTalk Server 2004 Integrates With Microsoft Office System Tools to Boost Value of Business Process Management
3/3/2004
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Business processes are in place everywhere. In essence, they are what make businesses run. And while the concept of business processes has been around a long time, today's technology offers organizations a needed new way to address them. Over the past several years, business complexity has increased faster than value. With implementation costs on the rise and enterprises facing ever more mergers and acquisitions, the ability to use business processes as a tool to ease integration is becoming far more prevalent. Smart companies recognize that they can model their business processes with software and capitalize on them.
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Microsoft and iWay Software Strategic Alliance Produces Native .NET Adapter Suite for BizTalk Server 2004
3/3/2004
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iWay Software, an Information Builders company that accelerates business integration and the world's leading adapter vendor, continues to expand its support of Microsoft Corp.'s integration initiatives by providing a custom line of adapters for BizTalk® Server 2004. These adapters, which provide complete, code-free access to a variety of applications and data within the enterprise, have been developed on Microsoft® .NET architecture.
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, part of the Microsoft Windows Server System (TM) , provides foundational technologies -- including business-process orchestration, single sign-on capability, and human-based workflow and Web services support -- that enable customers to build tailored e-business solutions to connect people with information and processes. Built on the Microsoft .NET Framework and integrated into the Microsoft Office System and Visual Studio® .NET 2003, BizTalk Server 2004 addresses the unique needs of information technology professionals, information workers and developers to help increase efficiency and productivity.
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Microsoft Launches BizTalk Server 2004 With New Tools for Best-of-Breed Integration and Business Process Management Solutions
3/3/2004
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Microsoft Corp. today unveiled BizTalk® Server 2004, an industry-leading integration solution and a member of the Windows Server System (TM) . Applications built with BizTalk Server 2004 run on the Microsoft® .NET Framework, making it easier for customers to automate and manage complex business processes by integrating applications, trading partners and employees with BizTalk Server's highly scalable process orchestration engine. BizTalk Server 2004 helps increase the productivity of information workers, IT professionals and developers with role-specific tools for developing, managing and accessing business processes in familiar environments such as the Microsoft Office System and Visual Studio® .NET 2003. BizTalk Server 2004 was launched at the Silicon Valley Speaker Series.
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Web Services performance considerations, Part 2
3/2/2004
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With the introduction of Web services as an open standards integration technology for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Business to Business (B2B) Integration, you can do many things to promote operational efficiencies and thus ensure the successful architecture and deployment of a solution. Continuing from the previous article on Web services-related performance issues, this article will explain other secondary issues that affect Web services performance based on real-world experiences and provide suggestions for how best to architect, develop, and deploy Web services-based solutions.
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Hotfix for MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 2 - KB832414 Microsoft XML Parser
3/1/2004
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This update contains Microsoft XML (MSXML) functionality that will allow applications using MSXML to continue to function correctly after security update 832894, Security Update for Internet Explorer, has been applied. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. Once you have installed this item, it cannot be removed.
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eBay and Microsoft Office Extend Opportunity for Developers To Create Solutions That Enhance Trading on eBay: Developers Invited to Take Advantage of Web Services Capabilities in Microsoft Office System To Link to eBay Platform
3/1/2004
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eBay Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today invited third-party developers to tap into the Web services capabilities of both the eBay platform and the Microsoft® Office System to enhance trading on eBay. With the combined power of the two platforms, developers now have the opportunity to build innovative solutions that can greatly benefit buyers and sellers on eBay by giving users more control and flexibility in managing their transactions. Using the enhanced capabilities of Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and Microsoft Office FrontPage® 2003, developers can create a variety of solutions that will help users increase their productivity on eBay. For example, solutions could enable eBay users to utilize Excel to manage dynamic listing data on eBay -- such as pricing and bids -- and update the data automatically as changes occur. Solutions also could enable users to list multiple items on eBay simultaneously or create a Web site that displays their eBay item listings.
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MSDN Webcast: Biztalk Server 2004 Architecture - 3/3/2004 11:00 AM PST
3/1/2004
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BizTalk® Server 2004’s massively scalable architecture is designed to meet the needs of the largest enterprise application demands. In this webcast we’ll first cover BizTalk’s internal Pub/Sub architecture in detail and then we’ll expose the flexible host based BizTalk application deployment model.
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RSS: Should It Be Re-named "Speed Feed"?
2/29/2004
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RSS feeds have hit the Associated Press radar screen. An article by Frank Bajak seems likely to advance the cause of "Really Simple Syndication" or "RDF Site Summary" or "Rich Site Summary" depending what you like to call it. Unless it's time for a new name?
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Web services == or != distributed objects?
2/28/2004
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David Orchard of BEA Systems writes about how Web services and distributed object technology differ, and what the critical success factors are.
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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2 Working Draft Published
2/27/2004
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The SVG Working Group has released its fifth public Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2. SVG delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML.
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Describe open source projects with XML, Part 1
2/26/2004
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In this installment, Edd Dumbill starts the development of a vocabulary to describe open source software projects, setting goals and deciding among XML and RDF schema technologies.
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Oracle9i SOAP Vulnerability Found
2/26/2004
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Oracle Corp. last week revealed that a potential security vulnerability has been discovered in its Oracle9i Application Server and Oracle9i Database Server. The vulnerability is within SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages whose XML contains carefully constructed DTDs (Data Type Definitions), according to Oracle Technology Network's security alert. The alert notes that SOAP is the basis of Web services, which are therefore affected as well. To exploit the vulnerability, a malicious user requires access to SOAP-enabled servers. A knowledgeable attacker can exploit the vulnerability to cause a DoS (denial of service) against the database and application servers. XML and SOAP are installed by default in both the database and application servers when the Oracle HTTP Server is installed.
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Community Integration and XML
2/25/2004
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Community integration elevates collaborative commerce to a new level of integration between enterprises. XML-based document exchanges between companies impose new challenges on organizations building a B2B community integration solution.
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XML and Web Services: Connecting Information Islands
2/25/2004
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The Web has become the world's greatest repository of information on anything and everything. It's extremely useful - as long as you can find what you're looking for. Despite the arrival of Google and other powerful search tools, information seekers can't always connect with the most relevant information.
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