The World Wide Web Consortium announced the release of the XForms 1.0 Candidate Recommendation. XForms 1.0 is the foundation for next-generation Web-based forms, by combining the ability to separate purpose, presentation, and results with the XML. Advancement of this document to Candidate Recommendation is a statement that the specification is stable. The W3C XForms Working Group invites the Web development community at large to implement the specification and demonstrate interoperability. In contrast to HTML Forms, with functional and presentation markup intertwined, XForms lets forms authors distinguish the descriptions of the purpose of the form; the presentation of the form, and how the results (the instance data) are written in XML. By splitting traditional HTML forms into three parts — XForms model, instance data, and the XForms user interface — it cleanly separates presentation from content. Practically speaking, XForms technologies make it possible to use forms from a PDA, a cell phone, screen reader or conventional desktop machine – without loss of functionality for the end user. XForms, while initially designed to be integrated into XHTML, may be adopted by any suitable markup language, such as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). www.w3.org
Day: November 11, 2002
eXcelon Corporation announced the availability of XIS Lite, a fully functional version of the company’s native XML database management system, eXtensible Information Server (XIS). XIS Lite is designed to enable customers with less extensive data requirements to achieve dynamic, extensible and reliable data management at a lower cost of ownership. eXcelon developed XIS Lite for companies that are using XML business documents to build the foundation for web services applications and standards-based integration networks where resilience to change is required. XIS Lite provides additional ROI to developers and architects who deploy applications on XIS Lite by providing them with the ability to re-deploy those applications on full-scale XIS without requiring modifications to application-level code. XIS Lite is available immediately starting at $995 per developer seat. www.exln.com
Venetica announced support for Oracle9i Application Server. Venetica’s product VeniceBridge will enable global customers to take advantage of the scalability and performance of Oracle9i Application Server when integrating portals, CRM solutions and other key applications with content distributed throughout the enterprise. www.venetica.com
Documentum announced the immediate availability of Content Services for EMC Centera, an archiving solution based on the completed integration between the Documentum ECM platform and the EMC Centera Content Addressed Storage (CAS) solution. EMC Centera is an online storage system that ensures the authenticity and immutability of enterprise content. Content Services for EMC Centera provides a complete, optimized solution for archiving large volumes of content across an entire enterprise, by linking Documentum 5 (or 4i) with EMC Centera. EMC Centera is an online storage architecture specifically designed to address the unique storage requirements of fixed content, such as photos, videos, audio, graphics and web content. Content Services for EMC Centera enables customers to automate their business policies to securely deposit, archive and access any type of content asset in EMC Centera. www.emc.com, www.documentum.com
