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Subject: Members Approve Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) 1.1 as OASIS Standard


** 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


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Carol Geyer
OASIS Director of Communications
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
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