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A new class of presentation layer is emerging to solve a range of user interface challenges. Users are demanding a rich client interface to Web Services that provides an end user experience similar to client/server applications, with a rich graphical user interface, responsive performance and highly interactive functionality. The goal of this emerging rich client solution is to provide the optimal combination of rich, low-cost interaction through standards-based distributed computing.

Curl is a veteran to the market of rich client solutions for distributed Internet applications. The basis of their solution is their own runtime environment called Surge that provides an executable environment for the Curl language. Curl also provides a language that supports a rich set of user interface capabilities that users can extend to provide additional functionality, from simple macros to direct control over the positioning of subcomponents.

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The idea of Service-Oriented Integration (SOI) quite simple: rather than requiring systems to understand the details of a system in order to extract information, we can merely expose that system as a service and make queries to the service to meet our needs. SOI is merging different integration paradigms into a single solution set: integration between devices (from handhelds to mainframes), applications (such as Great Plains, SAP, and Siebel), B2B integration, and traditional EAI. IONA has released a platform known as the Orbix End-to-Anywhere (E2A) Web Services Integration Platform that sets the context for a very wide set of products covering the widest range of functionality in an SOI environment.

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ZapThink’s presentation on Web Services Management to CA World.

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Organizational charts are universally understood and so it is almost one of the only true universal business documents. People use org charts for change management (such as layoffs and rapid growth), phone lists, directories for departments, what-if planning for mergers and acquisitions, redundancies, efficiencies, gaps, and headcount on the fly. The main problem with organizational charts is that they are frequently are out-of-date, and most industrial HR and ERP software packages have left this capability out of their products. TimeVision has answered these problems through a set of innovative products that dynamically report and update organizational information leveraging XML as its main storage and exchange mechanism.

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Since there is an almost infinite, endless stream of news and information to be tapped, the primary issue is not aggregating this content but accurately classifying and sorting it so that a single user can pinpoint and receive the specific information they are interested in without being inundated by a tidal wave of news and information. NewsEdge has developed an innovative and effective means for aggregating, categorizing, and applying taxonomy to news and story information. The system provides real-time Java-based "push" technology that sends out a formatted XML stream as the news or data information is generated. This "feed" delivery option can be tailored as to its frequency, level of specificity, and method of transformation.

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InfoPower’s flagship SnapXT product is squarely focused at enabling casual, informal, and agile business process and composite application development. Leveraging a hosted, J2EE-based platform, SnapXT introduces a unique and innovative development paradigm – the ability for the application developer to choose their most productive design and development tool, and use such tools interchangeably. Using XML as its output format, applications are produced intuitively, providing a range of ways to build Service-oriented, composite applications.

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Mozquito Technologies AG produces a suite of development tools targeted at advanced interactive "form" development using XForms , XHTML, and their Forms Markup Language (FML) in its Mozquito Factory and Matrix product lines. This is important, since like XML, forms represent a structured interchange of data. Forms provide additional specific features such as workflow, auto-fill, and pre-fill form applications that are supported through the use of instance data.

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Companies are increasingly seeking to tie together their disparate enterprise using the promising, but emerging technologies of XML, Web Services, and Service-Oriented Architectures. These approaches promise significant business agility in the face of IT heterogeneity. However, these benefits come at a price: performance and efficiency. As the network traffic increases due to the increasing size and volume of messages, both XML and non-XML based, existing corporate IT infrastructure will be taxed to its limit. General-purpose application servers, network equipment, and messaging infrastructure will be increasingly devoted to simple message parsing, handling, and routing functions, while precious few resources will be left to execute the core business logic so important to companies.

Research shows that the quantity and size of these metadata-laden messages won’t be decreasing soon. Developers and specifications bodies continue to tax messaging systems with additional layers of headers and metadata meant to abstract underlying infrastructure. Increasingly large message size, along with a general increase in message volume, combine to create the challenge of Very Large Messaging (VLM).

Previous approaches to solving distributed messaging problems, including messaging middleware, ESB, and application servers, were not designed to handle the challenges of VLM. Emerging approaches such as hardware appliances and binary XML, may solve part of the overall VLM problem, but fail to provide a comprehensive approach that targets all systems, networks, and processing infrastructure that runs within the corporate IT environment. Further, while these approaches may remove some of the overhead of message parsing, they offer no direct benefit to assimilating and utilitizing these messages within applications.

As a result, new approaches are needed to deal with messages being exchanged on the network that are exceeding the capabilities of the general purpose hardware and software that is now being applied to the problem. How can efficient content-level message processing be distributed to all the nodes in a corporate network? How can dumb networks be made more intelligent through the ability to process data and metadata it formerly ignored? In this paper, approaches to the “Very Large Messaging” (VLM) problem, and potential optimal solutions that hope to break the stalemate in network processing of data are presented.

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