The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued XML-Signature Syntax and Processing (XML Signature) as a W3C Recommendation. While there are technologies one can use to sign an XML file, XML Signature brings two additional benefits. First, XML Signature can be implemented with and use many of the same toolkits one is using for XML applications. In this way, no additional software is required. Second, XML Signature can process XML as XML instead of a single large document. This means multiple users may apply signatures to sections of XML, not simply the whole document. XML Signature permits both the original form and user’s entries to be independently signed without invalidating the other. XML Signature is tailored to XML processing, but it can be used to sign any data, such as a PNG image. Participants in the joint IETF/W3C Working Group included Accelio, Baltimore, Capslock, Citigroup, Corsec, Georgia State University, IAIK TU Graz, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, Pure Edge, Reuters Health, Signio, Sun Microsystems, University of Siegen, University of Waterloo, VeriSign Inc., and XMLsec. www.w3.org
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Infodata announced a licensing agreement of AnnoDoc, its collaboration and annotation tool, into Documentum’s enterprise content management platform. With the integration of AnnoDoc into Documentum’s product line, companies will be able to have teams of people create, assemble, and view individual annotations on complex documents over the web, and then track and audit those changes throughout the lifecycle of the document while using Adobe Acrobat in a Documentum environment. According to the terms of the agreement, AnnoDoc will be included on the Documentum Third Party Products price list, which is comprised of third party products that are complementary to the Documentum offering. Documentum, Infodata, and Adobe will each be marketing AnnoDoc to their customer base. www.infodata.com, www.documentum.com, www.adobe.com
Pindar Systems announced Agility, an enterprise catalog commerce server that will enable B2B and B2C companies fast, creative development of complex catalogs and promotions across print, online and supply chain channels. Agility is a comprehensive product information management system built with a J2EE-compliant Web application server architecture for fully integrated catalog development – across sales channels; among in-house merchandising, marketing, creative and production teams; between domestic and international company divisions and brands; and in collaboration with both supply and sell-side trading partners. Available modules include Agility Workflow, Agility Content Gateway, Agility XML Importer and XML Exporter, Agility Table Wizard, Agility Whiteboarding, Agility PDF Generator, Agility Supplier Gateway and Production Advisor for Agility. Pindar System’s Agility can be deployed across Microsoft Windows, Web or the new Apple Macintosh OS/X platforms. It runs on Sun SPARC Solaris 7.0 and Intel NT 4.0 (and greater) servers. Supported application servers include BEA Weblogic and IBM Websphere (later this year). Supported enterprise databases are Oracle 8i and 9i and Microsoft SQL 2000. www.pindarsystems.com
Altova, Inc. announced the release of the XML Spy 4.3 Suite, a comprehensive product-line of developer tools for advanced XML application development, consisting of the XML Spy 4.3 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the XML Spy 4.3 XSLT Designer, and the XML Spy 4.3 Document Editor. XML Spy 4.3 Suite lets developers tackle web services development on all of the major web services platforms including Microsoft .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). XML Spy Suite is a developer tool for testing & debugging web services based on SOAP. XML Spy supports graphical editing of XML Schemas which use Microsoft SQLXML schema extensions, a technology that creates XML views of relational data, abstracting away the underlying data format. The XML Spy 4.3 Suite is available immediately for download and purchase. www.xmlspy.com
IXIASOFT and Altova Inc. announced the availability of the XML Spy integration kit. The free package, downloadable from IXIASOFT’s website, enables the widespread XML Spy user community to leverage TEXTML Server’s XML database technology from within their development environment. The integration kit delivers a simple installation process on either the evaluation or the full editions of TEXTML Server and XML Spy 4 Suite. Users can expect to perform such operations as “save to”, “open from”, “save as” and “add to” TEXTML Server. Users can choose to “lock” retrieved documents for editing purposes and also choose to have new or edited content “indexed”, or merely stored as work in progress awaiting further editing, or content approval. Searching on file name is also possible and in an upcoming version of the integration kit, users can expect a comprehensive search interface to query, retrieve and edit content. www.xmlspy.com, www.ixiasoft.com
Progressive Information Technologies announced the immediate availability of Vasont, a cross-media publishing system that enables enterprises to publish content across numerous media channels. Vasont is the seventh version of Progressive Information Technologies’ TARGET 2000 cross-media publishing system. TARGET 2000 was renamed Vasont to better reflect its continuing enhancements and significant new features. Vasont empowers organizations to not only create and manage their content in XML, SGML, HTML and WML, but instantly publish it across all media channels, including print, CD-ROM, Web, and wireless. This is done through Vasont’s Tag Neutral Technology, which stores content separate from tags – ensuring content integrity and maximizing content reuse. Vasont automatically deploys a new tagging standard to the content as it is extracted and makes the content flexible for simultaneous publishing to various media channels. www.vasont.com
Documentum has formalized the details of a program for application value-added resellers (VARs), which expands its existing Signature Partner Program for system integrator and technology partners. The latest features of the program offer VARs an opportunity to incorporate Documentum’s enterprise content management solution into content-rich applications backed by a variety of marketing services and technical support offerings. Documentum’s Signature Partner Program offers VARs that sell packaged software applications the ability to sell Documentum’s full product license or a run-time license bundled with their application. With this more structured approach geared for the specific needs of VAR partners, Documentum intent is to expand its reach beyond the Global 2000 market into targeted vertical application providers. www.documentum.com
Internet Expressions, Inc. announced the availability of version 3.25 of its FastPage web-based content management tool. FastPage is a content management product that is installed on the server where a website is hosted. With built-in security and content editing features, people can maintain content on multiple web pages. Any document (web page or other text-only format file) that resides on a web server can be edited with FastPage. Usernames and passwords are assigned for each document using the included web-based FastPage Profile Manager. Development firms can private label FastPage with their own name and brand as well as customize the look and feel of the FastPage user interface. FastPage version 3.25 is available as a free upgrade to registered users of version 3.0 and higher. A single user license of FastPage is $79.00. Discounts are available for multi-license purchases. Multi-license pricing, reseller and ordering information is available on Internet Expressions’ web site. International versions of FastPage are planned for later this year. www.iexp.com
