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XML Daily Newslink. Wednesday, 11 July 2007
A Cover Pages Publication http://xml.coverpages.org/
Provided by OASIS http://www.oasis-open.org
Edited by Robin Cover

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This issue of XML Daily Newslink is sponsored by
BEA Systems, Inc. http://www.bea.com

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HEADLINES:

* IBM Issues Interoperability Specifications Pledge
* SOA standards WS-Policy, SCA and SDO Advancing Rapidly
* Interview Series: Building an Event-Driven SOA
* CalDAV Scheduling Requirements Version 1.1
* Oracle Launches 11g Database With Nearly 500 New Features

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IBM Issues Interoperability Specifications Pledge
Staff, IBM Announcement

IBM announced that "it is granting universal and perpetual access to
certain intellectual property that might be necessary to implement
more than 150 standards designed to make software interoperable. One
likely result of the pledge to commercial and open source communities
is that it will be easier for more computing devices and software to be
compatible with one another. The move, which IBM believes is the largest
of its kind, is also designed to spur industry innovation, while
discouraging litigation. The software specifications and protocols
involved in the pledge underpin industry standards, such as those
reflected in Web Services: programming, transactions and data exchanged
on the Internet and Web. These are typically under, or moving toward,
stewardship by standards groups such as the World Wide Web Consortium
and OASIS... IBM's commitment not only applies to the distributors,
developers or manufacturers that are implementing the specifications
involved, but also extends to their users or customers. It is valid as
long as adopters are not suing any party -- not just IBM -- over
necessary patented technology needed to implement the standards.
Previously, all adopters of these specifications and protocols needed
to secure royalty-free licensing terms from IBM. This move clarifies
and makes more consistent the intellectual property usage rules,
encouraging even wider implementations of open standards. IBM hopes
that others companies and intellectual property holders make similar
commitments." The "List of Covered Specifications" dated July 10, 2007
included 220 specification titles.

http://xml.coverpages.org/IBM-PatentPledge.html
See also the Patent Pledge: http://www-03.ibm.com/linux/opensource/isplist.shtml

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SOA standards WS-Policy, SCA and SDO Advancing Rapidly
Rich Seeley, SearchWebServices.com

Emerging service-oriented architecture (SOA) specifications are moving
closer to becoming standards. WS-Policy 1.5 reached proposed
recommendation status this week in the W3C standards process, and at
OASIS technical committees are forming this month to work on Service
Component Architecture (SCA). Another OASIS technical committee for
the C and C++ versions of Service Data Objects (SDO) specification
is expected to form later this month and coordinate with work being
done on the Java version of SDO in the Java Community Process (JCP).
While work is expected to begin on standardizing SCA and SDO in
September 2007 at OASIS, Web Services Policy 1.5 will be nearing a final
vote for approval as a W3C standard by then. Philippe Le Hegaret, W3C
architecture domain leader of Web Services Policy 1.5: "We expect it
to become a recommendation at the beginning of September... the
specification already has been implemented and tested by the vendors
supporting it including IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard Corp., BEA
Systems Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc..." [Also:] This month, six
technical committees are forming in OASIS to work on various components
of SCA, said Jeff Mischkinsky, director of Oracle Fusion Middleware
and Web services standards at Oracle Corp., and chair of the OASIS
Open Composite Services Architecture (CSA) Member Section. While the
road to OASIS standardization may take from nine to 18 months,
Mischkinsky said the standards will be stable enough for developers
to begin implementing them soon after the work begins.

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1263886,00.html
See also the Proposed TCs for SCA: http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2007-07-06-a.html

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Interview Series: Building an Event-Driven SOA
Anne-Christine Strugnell and Robin Smith, BEA Arch2Arch

The author talks about Event-Driven SOA (EDSOA): Every day, companies
face the challenges of processing the continually growing amount of
business intelligence flowing through the enterprise. They have to
handle large volumes of complex data in real time simply to operate.
They'd like to improve their ability to anticipate future events in
real time, and they know that all this data on current events, even
if it seems unrelated, may contain information that would help them
predict what might happen next. All businesses are event-driven...
and event-driven SOA addresses all the capabilities organizations
need to respond to these real-time business dynamics. Event-driven
SOA combines the send/reply paradigm of service oriented architecture
(SOA) and the event sense/respond paradigm of event-driven architecture
(EDA). Together, these design principles result in extreme agility,
enabling the enterprise to conduct business at light speed.By supporting
events as services, event-driven SOA enables architects to map an
application design to the exact business problem, which typically
consists of requirements for both a send/response paradigm and for an
event sense/respond paradigm... One can think of complex event
processing (CEP) as analogous to the database management of structured
data -- but backwards. Rather than the information remaining static
with queries being executed ad-hoc across the data, in an event-driven
application the queries remain static and the data is continuously
changing. The CEP engine continuously filters, correlates, and manages
causality and aggregation, with all this evaluated in real time... CEP
is relevant to all industries. It enables companies to manage
manufacturing processes using RFID and WiFi tagging data streams to
monitor humidity, heat, and weight, among other variables.
Telecommunication companies can use it with VOIP or video streaming
events. We are also seeing military use cases now for asset tracking
or field tactical analytics. In the airline industry there is a
growing need for matching event patterns that can occur from several
event sources, such as passenger activity, boarding information
events, baggage movement events, and flight status events..."

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2007/07/building-event-driven-soa.html
See also CEP engines: http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/rsanyal/archive/2007/07/cep_engine_or_event_driven_application_server.html

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CalDAV Scheduling Requirements Version 1.1
Dave Thewlis, Calconnect Announcement

A posting from Dave Thewlis (Executive Director of Calconnect, The
Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium) to the IETF Calendaring and
Scheduling Standards Simplification (CALSIFY) list reports on the
publication of "CalDAV Scheduling Requirements Version 1.1." The
document presents a list of features in the form of requirements
for the scheduling extensions to CalDAV (RFC 4791), that is, the
extensions to the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)
protocol to specify a standard way of exchanging and processing
scheduling messages based on the iCalendar Transport-Independent
Interoperability Protocol (iTIP) as defined in RFC 2446. The
document has two parts: Free Busy Requirements (Free Busy Access,
Free Busy Management, Free Busy Access Control) and Scheduling
Requirements (Generic, Organizer, Attendee/Recipient, Scheduling
Access Control). CalDAV (Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV) defines
protocol to specify a standard way of accessing, managing, and
sharing calendaring and scheduling information based on the
iCalendar format. CalDAV uses XML markup notation.

http://www.calconnect.org/publications/caldavschedulingrequirementsv1.1.pdf
See also the IETF CALSIFY WG: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/calsify-charter.html

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Oracle Launches 11g Database With Nearly 500 New Features
Charles Babcock, InformationWeek

Oracle launched the 11g version of its database for its core Unix
server market, adding nearly 500 technology features in a major new
release. A Linux version of Oracle 11g ships later this quarter;
Windows will have to wait. The 11g database includes an advanced
feature, Real Application Testing, that's expected to help customers
migrate applications to the new database with less pain than previous
migrations. From the announcement: "The next-generation capability for
storing large objects (LOBs) such as images, large text objects, or
advanced data types -- including XML, medical imaging, and three-
dimensional objects -- within the database. Oracle Fast Files offers
database applications performance fully comparable to file systems.
Oracle Database 11g includes significant performance enhancements to
XML DB, a feature of Oracle database that enables customers to natively
store, and manipulate XML data. Support for binary XML has been added
offering customers a choice of XML storage options to match their
specific application and performance requirements. XML DB also enables
manipulation of XML data using industry standard interfaces with
support for XQuery, Java Specification Requests (JSR)-170 and SQL/XML
standards. Oracle Database 11g offers developers a choice of
development tools, and a streamlined application development process
that takes full advantage of key Oracle Database 11g features. These
include new features such as Client Side Caching, Binary XML for
faster application performance, XML processing, and the storing and
retrieving of files. In addition, Oracle Database 11g also includes
a new Java just-in-time Compiler to execute database Java procedures
faster without the need for a third party compiler; native integration
with Visual Studio 2005 for developing .NET applications on Oracle;
Access migration tools with Oracle Application Express; and SQL
Developer easy query building feature for fast coding of SQL and
PL/SQL routines."

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201000788
See also the announcement: http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_jul/database-11g.html

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