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Subject: Re: [announce] Members Approve Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) 1.1as OASIS Standard
Congratulations David! Carol Geyer wrote: > ** Please link to this press release at > http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2007-06-19.php ** > > Members Approve Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) 1.1 as OASIS Standard > > New standard lays foundation for automated information integration > > Boston, MA, USA; 19 June 2007 -- OASIS, the international standards consortium, > today announced that its members have approved the Content Assembly Mechanism > (CAM) version 1.1 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest > level of ratification. CAM provides an open, XML-based system for using > business rules to define, validate, and compose specific business documents > from generalized schema elements and structures. CAM also provides the > foundation for creating industry libraries and dictionaries of schema elements > and business document structures to support business process needs. > > "CAM has been described as a Swiss army knife for XML structures," said David > Webber, chair of the OASIS Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) Technical > Committee. "That's because CAM addresses the three issues that are crucial for > automated information integration. It delivers the capability to design > transactions consistently, to document their usage clearly, and to drive > software that can apply rules and test information content correctly." > > CAM can be used wherever manipulation or validation of information content > structures is required. The most widely used application is the validation of > content passing through a messaging system, where CAM ensures that the > information received is compatible with the supported business systems. CAM can > also direct the creation or processing of transactions in a business process > engine or be deployed as a Web service to allow trading partners to > pre-validate XML instances before using them in message exchanges. > > "Before a Web service can exchange XML data between applications, the > information usually needs to be validated and transformed," explained Patrick > Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. "CAM offers a new way to accomplish this by > using specialized templates that allow contextual business rules to be applied > to any XML structure. These business rules can be used to validate the > structure or to transform XML data to fit a specified form." > > The CAM OASIS Standard was developed by representatives of AmberPoint, the U.S. > National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Sun Microsystems, and > others. > > The CAM OASIS Standard and the archives of the CAM Technical Committee work are > publicly accessible. OASIS hosts the cam-dev mailing list for exchanging > information on implementing the standard. > > > Additional information > > CAM 1.1 OASIS Standard: > http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#camv1.1 > > OASIS CAM Technical Committee: > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/cam/ > > CAM FAQ: > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/cam/faq.php > > > About OASIS > > OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is > a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, > convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the > OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to > promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. The consortium produces > open standards for Web services, security, e-business, and standardization > efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets. Founded in > 1993, OASIS has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 > organizations and individual members in 100 countries. > http://www.oasis-open.org > > > Press contact: > > Carol Geyer > OASIS Director of Communications > carol.geyer@oasis-open.org > +1.978.667.5115 x209 (office) > +1.941.284.0403 (mobile) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: announce-help@lists.oasis-open.org > > -- Regards, Farrukh Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com
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