I haven’t updated my eForms Resources page in a while, and I should, as there has been a lot of news lately, including the introduction of Acrobat 7 and Adobe’s recent announcement of their LiveCycle Policy Server.
I spent some time today at the formsPlayer Web site. formsPlayer is the XForms technology from UK-based x-port.net Ltd. They have a complete toolkit for developers, but you can also download the player itself for free, and then they have a nice set of example XForms, including ones that combine XForms with SVG.
The installation of formsPlayer requires IE 6, and the latest version of the Microsoft XML parser, but the installation will prompt you for this.
Category: Web technologies & information standards (Page 49 of 58)
Here we include topics related to information exchange standards, markup languages, supporting technologies, and industry applications.
Michael Mimoso, writing at Search Networking.com suggests that 2005 may be the year that XML finally begins to tax networks and servers:
Enterprise affection for XML Web services may have C-level hearts fluttering over the immediate efficiency and productivity gains, but the other shoe is about to drop in this relationship.
Users and experts expect 2005 to be the year companies realize en masse how taxing XML is on enterprise networks, sparking a spending spree on XML acceleration products and optimized appliances that offload this burden. Meanwhile, standards bodies like the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) work in the shadows on the ratification of a single binary XML standard that could bring an about-face to the commitment companies have to the ASCI text encoding that is currently the foundation of XML 1.0.
I don’t have any numbers to back this up, but I think Mimoso is on to something. I have been keeping an eye on companies like DataPower, which makes “XML-Aware Network Infrastructure.” Companies like DataPower tend to focus on both XML performance and security with their hardware, and my impression is that, up until now, many of the hardware purchases have been motivated by security concerns. It will be interesting to see if a performance problem also begins to drive specialized hardware purchasing.
5/18/04
Industry Veterans on Board to Manage Growth of Content Technology Works™ Program and Industry Consulting Services
Contact:
Mary Laplante
mary@gilbane.com
(630) 820.3007
Cambridge , MA , May 18, 2004. Bluebill Advisors, Inc. and the Gilbane Report announced the appointment of two highly respected industry veterans to meet the rapidly growing demand for the company’s consulting services. Mary Laplante has joined the company as Vice President, Consulting Services, and will be responsible for the management and operations of the Content Technology Works Program, Gilbane Report webinars, white papers, and consulting projects. Mary is well known throughout the content technology industry from her extensive industry sales, marketing, and management experience, from her work as an analyst, writer, and consultant, and from her role as Founding Executive Director of OASIS (www.oasis-open.org/). Mary’s experience and exceptional management and organizational skills will help grow the Gilbane Report CTW program and consulting activities to the next level. Mary will also chair the CTW Track at the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies Conference in Boston.
Bill Zoellick has also joined the Gilbane Report as Senior Analyst, and will be devoting his considerable analytical and writing skills to the Gilbane CTW and White Paper programs. Bill is a highly regarded author whose books include CyberRegs: A Business Guide to Web Property, Privacy, and Patents, and Web Engagement: Connecting to Customers in e-Business, both from Addison-Wesley. Bill’s insightful and penetrating analysis has informed his many roles as a manager, researcher, developer and author in the content and information management industry.
“It is great to be working with Mary and Bill again,” said Frank Gilbane, CEO of Bluebill Advisors, “Bill, Mary, and Adina Levin worked with me as analysts at CAP Ventures in the mid-nineties where they developed a prodigious amount of sought-after analysis for the industry, including the very first research report on Content Management in 1997. Their experience and knowledge will be a great resource for all our customers.” Sebastian Holst, founder of the Gilbane CTW program, will continue to be a valuable contributor to the Gilbane Report.
About Bluebill Advisors, The Gilbane Report
Bluebill Advisors, Inc. serves the content management community with publications, conferences and consulting services. The Gilbane Report (www.gilbane.com) administers the Content Technology Works™ program disseminating best practices with partners Software AG (TECdax:SOW), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), Artesia Technologies, Atomz, Context Media, Convera (NASDAQ:CNVR), INSCI (OTCBB:INSS), Trados, Vasont, Venetica, and Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN).
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Snapbridge Software announced Snapbridge XStudio 2.5, a drag-and-drop development environment for building information processing solutions based on XML technologies. The improved development tool allows drag and drop development to choreograph the integration and publication of data and content with no coding or data schema required. In addition to availability on a stand-alone basis, XStudio is bundled with each version of FDX Information Server to provide developers with tools to build, test, debug, and deploy information integration solutions built with XStudio 2.5 for deployment to a full production environment. Snapbridge FDX Information Server is available in 3 editions, scaled appropriately to meet organizational needs. Both XStudio 2.5 and FDX Information Server are based on Snapbridge FDX, a technology for federating large amounts of heterogeneous kinds of data in real-time, including data from relational databases, flat files, mainframe data, Web services, digital images from content repositories, streaming feeds, etc., to create composite objects that can be viewed, or updated as part of a transaction. XStudio 2.5 retail price is $199 USD per seat and can be downloaded at www.snapbridge.com
Ipedo announced their software platform now handles concurrent assimilation of complex information sets from Oracle 9i, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server and Web Services. The information integration was done using Ipedo’s XML-based views and query technologies. With this new capability, Ipedo allows enterprises to create custom information views on demand. The XML-driven EII capabilities of the Ipedo XML Information Hub go beyond integration and allow custom assembly and persistence of information, in the variety of industry standard formats. The testing was done using the Ipedo XML Information Hub 3.3 with Oracle 9iR2, DB2 Universal Database v3.1, MySQL Pro v4.0, SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition, and a public Web Service from Google. Information was integrated using XQuery to quickly aggregate real-time business information across multiple sources, leveraging Ipedo’s XML Views, Web Services Views, Content Conversion and Universal XQuery Engine capabilities. www.Ipedo.com
IXIASOFT and Ingeniux announced a new technology partnership to integrate TEXTML Server with Ingeniux Content Management System (CMS). Combining these two XML technologies will provide customers with a comprehensive XML-based Web content management solution. IXIASOFT’s TEXTML Server is an XML content server designed for software developers who require advanced storing, indexing, and searching capabilities for their applications. Ingeniux CMS provides a complete Web content management and publishing system for developing, managing and deploying Web content throughout the enterprise. Ingeniux CMS empowers non-technical users to contribute to and manage the Web publishing process. Adding TEXTML Server, a native XML repository, to Ingeniux Content Management System will extend its functionality by providing users with advanced searching and publishing capabilities. The joint product offering is aimed at organizations who wish to take full advantage of a pure XML architecture. As part of this technology partnership, IXIASOFT and Ingeniux will collaborate on and coordinate sales and marketing efforts. www.ixiasoft.com, www.ingeniux.com
Altova Inc. announced the availability of the new Altova 2004 XML development tools product line, designed to meet the needs of building advanced XML and Web services applications. The new Altova 2004 product line consists of updates to existing products, XMLSPY 2004, AUTHENTIC 2004, and STYLEVISION 2004, and introduces a new product, MAPFORCE 2004. MAPFORCE 2004 is a visual data integration tool, which auto-generates custom data mapping code in multiple output languages such as XSLT and Java, to enable programmatic XML-to-XML or database-to-XML data transformations. Altova’s new MAPFORCE 2004 provides a 2-step XML-based approach to enterprise data integration. Using MAPFORCE 2004, data architects can programmatically convert data into XML from any database by drawing visual mappings from relational databases to any data model expressed in XML schema. MAPFORCE 2004 will then auto-generate the software program code required to programmatically marshal data from the source database to the target XML schema. Next, data can be transformed from one XML format to another, by visually drawing mappings between different XML schema data models. MAPFORCE 2004 is available for a free 30-day trial download or purchase for $499 for a single user license. www.altova.com
Altova Inc. announced an agreement with Borland Software Corporation, to include a special edition of Altova XMLSPY 5 within future editions of Borland Delphi Studio, Borland C++ Builder, and Borland C#Builder for the Microsoft .NET Framework integrated development environments (IDEs). www.altova.com
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