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Keep your plans secret for now.
This bit of wisdom awaited me inside a fortune cookie during a recent outing to a Chinese restaurant. I adore the cuisine of the Middle Kingdom, and always look forward to enjoying this, the Nostradamus of desserts. But the reality is that fortune cookies don't usually offer much insight about the future. (Nor, in fact, are they particularly Chinese; they most likely emerged from California in the early 20th century.) And so it appears we must look elsewhere for true prophesy.
Perhaps Elliotte Rusty Harold can help us out -- at least as far as XML is concerned. This week, the author of The XML Bible and frequent contributor to developerWorks, predicts that 2007 will be an exciting year for XML. In particular, XQuery, Atom, Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), XProc, and GRRDL are all promising new power, while the XML community is breathing new life into older technologies like XForms and XSLT. (Check out our podcast interview with the author, as well.) Bottom line: Expect things to pick up now that the lull of 2006 is over.
I still love my fortune cookies, and this online version can usually tide me over between trips to Mary Chung Restaurant. Incidentally, if any of you knows what plans I'm supposed to keep secret, please let me know as soon as feasible.
Oh, and Happy Chinese New Year!
John Swanson
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IBM enhances open source support for partners -- dW Editor-in-chief Michael O'Connell turns his attention to IBM's new effort to make it easier for partners to successfully use open source technologies.
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Podcasts
This week on developerWorks (13 February 2007) -- Elliotte Rusty Harold, co-author of XML in a Nutshell and well-known developer of the XOM library for processing XML with Java technology, joins to preview his new developerWorks article, "Ten predictions for XML in 2007."
(Also, see Scott Laningham's blog for this week's show notes.)
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Some fellow developers are struggling. Please consider stepping forward with help on the following items:
Middleware and Web services technical forum: Problems generating Java codes using WSAD 5.1.1 from WSDL file -- James is developing a Web Service using WSAD 5.1.1 with a third-party WSDL file and XML schema files. The signatures of several methods of the generated Java bean codes do not match those defined in the WSDL file. James cannot figure out how to fix this issue. Can you please help?
Tivoli Security Management forum: Transfer Account property to Person property -- Neron_rus would like to transfer information from the "UserID" field of AD to person property "UID." Alas, he doesn't know a method for doing this. Can you suggest a solution?
A noteworthy discussion:
Rational Method Composer forum: Discussion splits in two -- A new forum has been created specifically to cover the Rational Method Composer tool. Previously, RMC was covered as part of the RUP/software development processes/best practices discussion. This change was driven by customers deciding a segregation of the topics would best serve their needs.
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