Coco Jaenicke

XML-J: Would you care to comment on the state of XML technology in the industry today? Jaenicke: The official "state" of XML is that it's been accepted, but I don't think it's well understood. Most IT managers and project leaders have XML on some checklist somewhere, but few have yet incorporated IT in a strategic way. What's most interesting about the state of XML - past, present and future - is the direction that it's moving. Technology (consider Java) usually comes from the Ivory Tower, and it eventually pushes its way into the mainstream. XML is completely different - it has actually been pulled into the mainstream. And the speed at which it's being accepted is also head-turning. XML-J: I heard you have some very exciting news to share with our readers regarding eXc... (more)

Web Services and XML

In my last column (XML-J, Vol. 2, issue 1) I talked about Web services and how they can change the way we think about e-business and application development. This month I'd like to elaborate on a few points and examine some of the market benefits in greater depth. Both the Internet and XML offer great promise for electronic business, and have enticed people with the vision of friction-fre... (more)

Maximizing The Potential Of Web Services

As the hype surrounding Web services continues to swirl, I'd like to talk about when to choose a Web service over the many other communication options available. I'll start at the abstract level, looking at appropriate business objectives, and then sum up with a divide-and-conquer approach to getting there. The Business Impact of Web Services Web services offer a new level of interoperabi... (more)

Canonical Message Formats

As the scope of enterprise integration grows, IT organizations are demanding greater efficiency and agility from their architectures and are moving away from point-to-point integration,which is proving to be increasingly cumbersome to build and maintain. They are migrating towards adaptive platforms such as BEA's 8.1 Platform and many-to-many architectures that supports linear growth cost... (more)

Code Reuse: From Objects to Components to Services

Now that the age of limitless optimism is over and it's trendy to be cynical, I hear many Web services cynics remark that there's nothing new here. They're just components. Been there, done that, and in fact we called it CORBA (or COM). This leads to the inevitable questions about what truly is new and different, and what is empty hype for yesterday's news. In the Beginning... Once upon a... (more)