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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 costs as well as simplified maintenance. To connect systems, WebLogic developers are shifting away from creating individual adapters between every pair of systems in favor of Web services. For data, they are shifting away from individual mappings between data sources and targets in favor of Liquid Data enhanced with canonical messages. But trying to implement canonical messages can be rife with problems such as causing infighting between departments and creating rigid models that becom... (more)

XML: It's The 'X' That Matters

As XML survives its debutante ball and begins to be accepted by mainstream IT shops, it's being put to work, creating excitement among CIOs with its extensibility. Having had first-hand experience with several next-generation XML e-business application deployments, I'd like to describe how the extensibility of XML is revolutionizing e-business, making it possible to finally develop applications that are flexible enough to keep pace with today's constantly changing business requirements. What Is Extensibility? When we talk about XML's extensibility, we're talking about the ability ... (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-free commerce and collaboration. The Internet and XML give disparate entities a physical connection and common language, but nirvana was not immediately reached because so many questions about the ... (more)

SYS-CON Radio Interview with 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... (more)

Extensibility or Fragmentation

In my last column (XML-J, Vol. 1, issue 1) I talked about XML's extensibility and how it's the key to building dynamic systems. But that begs the question: Does the freedom to extend a data structure create new opportunities, or is it another example of flexibility run amok? The debate over supporting extended or XML data structures has been taken one step further to include support of different schemas - or vocabularies. The proliferation of XML vocabularies (and sometimes competing ones) has many people worried about fragmentation. But fear not. What to Do About All Those Vocab... (more)