JP Morgenthal, Chief Technology Officer at XMLSolutions Corporation and an industry expert on application integration and the internet, database middleware, and e-business, has written a guide to EAI with XML. Titled Enterprise Application Integration with XML and Java 1st Edition, it is published b

In August, two candidate recommendations were presented by the W3C. First was Scalable Vector Graphics V. 1.0. SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. It allows for vector graphic shapes, images and text. Graphical objects can be grouped, styled, transformed and composed

Now, client-side Java is back with a vengeance–and not always in the form of applets. The need to build robust B2B apps drives many IT managers to create full-featured client-side Java applications for their e-business partners. And many of these client apps are so healthy in size that they have to

The boom, and the possible subsequent bust, and, through it all, the hype surrounding new technologies is a fact of life in the IT industry. It provides a rich source of material for the technology media. Unsurprisingly, XML has received its share of criticism, including recent claims that it's

Excelergy Corporation today announced that it has become a sponsor of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) to promote the industry-wide acceptance of XML standards for open electronic data exchange among retail energy companies. Excelergy, a provider of e-

As e-commerce becomes a focal point for companies scrambling to have a presence on the electronic frontier, incorporating those new ventures into the existing infrastructure becomes crucial. While a compendium of middleware applications can assist in that endeavor, a few creative applications using

The idea for this column came from a talk Nathan Torkington gave at YAPC, in which he described areas where Perl was weak, one of which is XML. Although there are many excellent Perl modules dealing with many aspects of XML (among which a good dozen offer various ways of transforming XML documents),

Following the successful launch of its eBIS-XML initiative earlier this year, BASDA (the Business & Accounting Software Developers’ Association) has now introduced its latest eBIS-XML Web Shopping Cart schema which enables companies to transmit orders generated on their websites, directly into their