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DataMirror announced the release of DB/XML Transform Version 2.5. Using DB/XML Transform, companies can integrate their existing EDI infrastructures with XML-based technologies that allow businesses to communicate faster and smarter both internally and externally with virtually any trading partner. In addition to allowing businesses to transform standard EDI messages to XML, database and flat file formats, DB/XML Transform now supports RosettaNet. It also includes engine enhancements that enable the software to perform faster and offer greater flexibility in creating mapping rules with more fine-grained transaction control for any-to-database transformations. DB/XML Transform Version 2.5 features more built-in functions and enhancements to its graphical user interface, including an enhanced query designer and an input-parameter data entry screen that enables users to easily and quickly define complex queries for database-to-any transformation projects. www.datamirror.com

ContentGuard, Inc. has launched version 2.0 of its eXtensible rights Markup Language (XrML), which broadens the range of business models available to digital content and Web Services providers. ContentGuard has also released a Software Developer’s Kit to. ContentGuard also confirmed that it will hand control of XrML to an international standards organization. The company is currently in discussions with several standards organizations about accepting this governance role. ContentGuard plans to propose XrML 2.0 to any standards organization seeking a Rights Language. Within the last week such proposals have been made to MPEG-21 and TV Anytime. XrML 2.0 expands the capabilities of a Digital Rights Language to now also allow developers to establish the rights and conditions needed to access various Web Services. As part of a trusted environment, XrML can be used to apply rights to a wide variety of content and services to enable custom tailoring of digital offerings. The XrML 2.0 specification is available free at www.xrml.org. XrML 2.0 is extensible and compliant with XML namespaces using XML schema. In addition, XrML 2.0 extensions can be designed for specific industries or with the inclusion of other elements, such as resource-level metadata standards like ONIX. The XrML 2.0 SDK is available for download. www.contentguard.com

Stellent Inc. announced a strategic alliance with gedas Mexico, a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group and one of the largest systems integrators in Mexico. Under the agreement, gedas will integrate the Stellent Content Management system with e-business solutions for customers in Mexico. gedas specializes in business IT solutions based on global systems integration, consulting, outsourcing and a wide portfolio of e-business offerings that focus on diverse market segments such as government, automotive, products and services, health care and financial services. The integrator plans to implement the Stellent Content Management system as part of several customer projects that are currently underway. www.stellent.com, www.gedas.com.mx

Artesia Technologies announced a software extension to support the Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) initiative as part of the company’s support for this emerging standard. Developed under the supervision of the Department of Defense-sponsored Advanced Distributed Learning initiative (ADL), SCORM is designed to serve as a common, XML-based standard for the use and distribution of e-learning content across all federal agencies. Teams provides organizations with a solution for creating, identifying and managing the various metatag fields used to define content attributes within the SCORM initiative. The ADL Initiative is a collaborative effort between government, industry and academia, to establish a common framework that permits the interoperability of learning tools and content on a global scale. The Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Labor, and the National Guard have established the ADL Co-Lab as a forum for cooperative research, development and assessment of new learning technology prototypes, guidelines and specifications. To learn more about, or to download, SCORM Version 1.2, visit www.adlnet.org, www.artesia.com

Applied Semantics, Inc. announced it has added direct support for the International Press Telecommunications Council’s (IPTC) subject codes to its Auto-Categorizer enterprise software product. This enhancement enables electronic publishers to automate the process of tagging news articles with topic labels for easy routing, archiving, syndication, and retrieval.
Augmenting Applied Semantics’ Auto-Categorizer with IPTC’s subject codes, a
three-level hierarchical taxonomy comprising over 900 categories, also
enables electronic publishers to integrate news content easily with other
document collections for presentation in intranet portals. Applied Semantics’ Auto-Categorizer tool accepts XML input and responds with XML output, providing compatibility with any XML format, but particularly with NewsML and the News Industry Text Format (NITF) – two additional standards established by the 50-plus member IPTC organization. The IPTC developed the subject codes in support of these two standard XML schemas, both of which provide for use of topic tags. www.appliedsemantics.com

Group EM3 Inc. (EM3) and XCache Technologies announced a technology partnership that includes integration of the XCache dynamic content caching and delivery solution within EM3’s fully dynamic Web content management system, iOn (information object network). iOn’s out-of-box functionality is designed for non-technical business communicators. Coupled with XCache, iOn’s page delivery speed has increased by “an average of 800 percent.” Because CPU load is also significantly reduced, many more pages can be served with the same or fewer hardware resources, which means lower ongoing maintenance costs. Non-technical content providers still specify dynamic publishing rules and lifecycle dates within iOn, and the caching occurs automatically. www.xcache.com, www.em3.com

Jcorporate Ltd. unveiled its Expresso 4.0 application development framework, a major release which includes integration with the Apache Jakarta Struts Framework. Expresso is an OSS Java application development framework, a foundation set of reusable, Java software components. By leveraging Java, JSP, Servlet, XML, J2EE, Javamail, Cactus, Log4J, JUnit, Xerces, Xalan, and Struts, Jcorporate empowers businesses to design and implement unique, adaptable, and unrestricted solutions that are independent of platform and application server.
Struts is a MVC light weight framework emphasizing presentation and application configuration, and bringing a powerful tag library to Expresso. Expresso 4.0 is an application development framework with components for developing database-driven web applications. Struts concentrates on specific areas of the application development process, whereas Expresso adds capabilities for database-stored security, object-relational mapping, background job handling and scheduling, self-tests, log4j logging integration, automated table manipulation, database connection pooling, email connectivity, event notification, caching, internationalization, XML automation, testing, registration objects, configuration management, automatic database maintenance, etc. Expresso is available for download at www.jcorporate.com/product/expresso.html

ALPNET, Inc. announced the launching of its FastTrackXML, an extensible solution that offers corporations a quick and easy way to implement an XML-based authoring and single-source publishing system. Working with the client, Alpnet consultants and engineers implement, over a period of four to six weeks, a system that enables the client to author information modules, assemble them into publications and publish the result to paper, Web or on-line help. The FastTrackXML solution from Alpnet makes use of off-the-shelf packages and combines them with Alpnet design, development and customization services and powerful Alpnet -developed components. It is made up of an authoring environment and a publishing environment, developed and customized for one publication type, a service manual for instance. FastTrackXML from Alpnet lets users customize the content of the manualand output it to print, Web or on-line help format. Target users of FastTrackXML from Alpnet are publication departments, engineering teams that develop product information and marketing teams that need to publish the same information to multiple channels. www.alpnet.com