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XML and Web Services In The News - Friday 12 July 2002 Royalties may force standards stalemate A key Web standards body is bracing for a vote next week that could decide once and for all how it will handle patented technology that comes with royalties attached. Pro- and anti-royalty factions have debated the issue since last fall, in a high-stakes dispute that could determine what technologies may be considered for common use at the most fundamental levels of Web design. XML: the next generation Some of the W3C's work on XML will have a direct impact on the way we use the Web. Last week I noted how the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) work on XML was probably its most significant contribution to the online world, at least in recent years. That commitment was underlined with the release of the XML Conformance Suite. According to the accompanying press release, the suite consists of more than 2,000 test files for establishing the conformance of code to the XML 1.0 (Second Edition) standard. Webs At Rest and In Motion Careful readers of XML.com have figured out by now that, editorially at least, we are interested in coming to terms with the REST (that is, "representational state transfer") approach to building applications, particularly Web applications. New online services standards will alleviate businesses' security fears The Web services framework, by its nature, increases the ability of software to be exposed to the Web. As confidential information such as credit card details are passed around more widely between different systems and applications, it will be ever more important to implement a sound security platform for online business. The confusion over Web services Web services are at risk of being overlooked because of misdirected marketing efforts. I came away from a recent Microsoft presentation on Web services with a sinking feeling. I had sat and listened while Microsoft enthusiastically explained that for Web services to be successful you have to make IT the centre of your business. Web Services: Everyone's EAI? Cheaper, Faster, Better? Web services, first hatched by vendor-led standards bodies in 2000, were first touted as integration points for business-to-business e-commerce communications across firewalls. However, IT executives quickly latched on to these standards for another purpose: cost-effectively deploying internal integration projects. The Hazy clouds of 'Web services' However, despite the overwhelming lobby in favour of Web services, there is what appears to be a complete lack of understanding as to what they are. Research: XML and Web services security market to grow to $4.4 billion
by 2006 Market Analysis OneName Corporation Releases Extensible Name Service (XNS) Protocol Specifications OneName Corporation has released its XNS specifications under a royalty-free license and has submitted the specifications to XNSORG. The Extensible Name Service (XNS) Protocol specifications define eleven (11) Web services and an identity addressing syntax for a digital identity infrastructure. XNS creates an open, federated, peer-to-peer infrastructure for identifying and linking any resource at the SOAP level. W3C Publishes Four Working Drafts for the XML Pointer Language (XPointer) W3C has released four XPointer Working Drafts. These WDs refactor schemes presented in the earlier W3C Candidate Recommendation. The 'XPointer Framework' presents an extensible system for XML addressing and underlies additional schemes; the 'element()' scheme allows basic addressing of XML elements; the 'xmlns()' scheme is for interpreting namespace prefixes in pointers; the 'xpointer()' scheme allows full XML addressing. |
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