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Subject: FW: XML Daily Newslink. Tuesday, 29 August 2006
Note especially: Registering UMM Business Collaboration Models in an ebXML Registry Birgit Hofreiter, Christian Huemer, Marco Zapletal; CEC/EEE 2006 Paper This paper was presented in June 2006 at the Eighth IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology and The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce, and E-Services (CEC/EEE 2006). UN/CEFACT's modeling methodology (UMM) is used to develop global choreographies of inter-organizational business processes. UMM models should be publicly available in order to foster re-use and to reference them in trading partner agreements. In this paper we present an approach to register UMM business collaboration models or parts thereof in an ebXML registry. Registration requires a machine-readable format. Since UMM is based on UML, we have to map the UML graphical notation into a commonly accepted machine-readable format. Consequently, we define an XMI representation for UMM models. We demonstrate the XMI approach for both the meta-model (M2) and the model (M1) layer of MOF: The meta-model layer defines all stereotypes and associated tagged values of UMM's UML profile. The business collaboration models on the M1 layer reference the corresponding stereotypes. In a further step we demonstrate the registration of the business collaboration models. These models are managed as extrinsic objects in the ebXML registry. We explain how to classify a model according to its business context. Since a model may be valid in multiple business environments, we develop an approach using the registry metadata for assigning multiple business environments to the same model. Since the ebXML registry does not natively include any classification groups we present an approach that is compliant to ebXML RIM (ebXML registry information model)... http://xml.coverpages.org/ebXML.html#HofreiterUMM-Regrep See also the OASIS ebXML Registry TC: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/regrep/ Kathryn Breininger Boeing Library Services 425-965-0182 phone -----Original Message----- From: Robin Cover [mailto:robin@oasis-open.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 10:05 PM To: XML Daily Newslink Subject: XML Daily Newslink. Tuesday, 29 August 2006 XML Daily Newslink. Tuesday, 29 August 2006 A Cover Pages Publication http://xml.coverpages.org/ Provided by OASIS http://www.oasis-open.org Edited by Robin Cover ==================================================== This issue of XML.org Daily Newslink is sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://sun.com ==================================================== HEADLINES: * Registering UMM Business Collaboration Models in an ebXML Registry * AJAX Growing in Emerging Markets * Google Unveils Office Rival * W3C Announces Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL-FO) V2.0 Workshop * BI Megatrends: Seventh Annual Special Report * Enterprise-Quality Open Source Implementation of WSRP * Ransom Payments Set Maps Free * Reinventing the Internet, Part 3: Unlocking the Potential of the URI * Fedora Goes Live ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Registering UMM Business Collaboration Models in an ebXML Registry Birgit Hofreiter, Christian Huemer, Marco Zapletal; CEC/EEE 2006 Paper This paper was presented in June 2006 at the Eighth IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology and The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce, and E-Services (CEC/EEE 2006). UN/CEFACT's modeling methodology (UMM) is used to develop global choreographies of inter-organizational business processes. UMM models should be publically available in order to foster re-use and to reference them in trading partner agreements. In this paper we present an approach to register UMM business collaboration models or parts thereof in an ebXML registry. Registration requires a machine-readable format. Since UMM is based on UML, we have to map the UML graphical notation into a commonly accepted machine-readable format. Consequently, we define an XMI representation for UMM models. We demonstrate the XMI approach for both the meta-model (M2) and the model (M1) layer of MOF: The meta-model layer defines all stereotypes and associated tagged values of UMM's UML profile. The business collaboration models on the M1 layer reference the corresponding stereotypes. In a further step we demonstrate the registration of the business collaboration models. These models are managed as extrinsic objects in the ebXML registry. We explaine how to classify a model according to its business context. Since a model may be valid in multiple business environments, we develop an approach using the registry metadata for assigning multiple business environments to the same model. Since the ebXML registry does not natively include any classification groups we present an approach that is compliant to ebXML RIM (ebXML registry information model)... http://xml.coverpages.org/ebXML.html#HofreiterUMM-Regrep See also the OASIS ebXML Registry TC: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/regrep/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AJAX Growing in Emerging Markets Darryl K. Taft, eWEEK The use of the AJAX style of development is increasing and is growing even faster in emerging markets than in North America, according to a recent survey. Evans Data, of Santa Cruz, Calif., found Asynchronous JavaScript and XML adoption to be generally higher in the emerging markets than in North America, particularly in Brazil, where 25 percent of developers surveyed said they are using AJAX. China had the lowest rate of AJAX adoption, with just over 16 percent of developers claiming to use AJAX. Evans Data surveyed more than 400 developers from Eastern Europe, Brazil, China and India. The Evans study also looked at PHP adoption. The study found that the largest number of developers using PHP can be found in Eastern Europe, where 39 percent of developers surveyed said they use PHP. India and Brazil showed similar adoption rates, with just over 31 percent of developers saying they use PHP. In contrast, only 21 percent of Chinese developers said they are using PHP, while in North America, 35 percent of the developers surveyed said they are using PHP. The Evans study came up with some other findings, one being that 42 percent of the developers in emerging markets surveyed said they are using Adobe's Flash. Also, increased usage of Linux for embedded operating systems is expected across all regions, and China is leading the way with 39 percent of developers using it. And nine out of 10 emerging market developers use Windows as the primary platform on which they host development. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2009845,00.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Google Unveils Office Rival Ted Samson, InfoWorld With Microsoft Office clearly in its long-range sights, Google has launched a package of Web-based productivity apps. The offering, called Google Apps for Your Domain, comprises Google services that all have seen the light of day: Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, and Google Page Creator. Notably absent from the menu are Writely and Google Spreadsheets, which respectively provide basic word-processing and spreadsheet functions that would be essential for a productivity suite, a la the more feature-rich Microsoft Word and Excel. Also, Google has yet to unveil an application that could rival Microsoft PowerPoint. With Google Apps for Your Domain, organizations can tailor the included applications' UIs with their own branding, and they can pick and choose which services to use. Moreover, there's a Web-based management interface through which admins can manage their user account list, set up aliases and distribution lists, and enable the services they want for their domain. End-users will be able to access their apps from any Web-connected computer. For the time being, there's one package available: the Standard Edition. Still in beta and free to use, it offers 2GB of e-mail storage per user as well as customer service for admins via e-mail or an online help center. According to Google's announcement, organizations that sign up during the beta period will not ever have to pay for users accepted during that period -- provided Google continues to offer the service. Google says that a premium version of the package is under development for organizations with more advanced needs. More information, including details on pricing, will be available soon. Google acknowledges in its announcement that it will eventually reach out for the enterprise, as well as ISPs and universities. http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/28/HNgoogleapps_1.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- W3C Announces Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL-FO) V2.0 Workshop Staff, Announcement W3C has issued a Call for Participation in connection with a W3C International Workshop on the future of the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL-FO) Version 2.0. The XSL specification is in two parts: a language for transforming XML documents (XSLT), and an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics (XSL-FO). This Workshop concerns the second of these two parts -- the formatting language. W3C's XSL Working Group has started work on version 2.0 of XSL-FO, and is looking for experts in the field to bring their knowledge, insight and experience, as well as for use cases and representatives of user communities. The XSL Working Group expects to be working in conjunction with the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group to enhance the layout capabilities of XSL-FO. The Workshop is designed to to gather inspiration, needs and techniques for a future version of XSL-FO. The W3C XSL Working Group expects that the enhancements for XSL-FO 2.0 will focus on layout-driven formatting, augmenting the content-driven layout facilities already defined. http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/2006-Workshop/ See also W3C Workshops: http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BI Megatrends: Seventh Annual Special Report Neil Raden, IntelligentEnterprise.com What are the latest directions in business intelligence? In our seventh annual report, we take a look at the major drivers impacting how you'll architect and implement BI in your organization. Could search, semantics and master data management push BI over the top? BI as we know it will disappear from view. Existing BI will linger, but the real action will be elsewhere. In an accelerating arc of progress with enterprise systems, organizations are moving beyond purely operational systems and toward embedding analytics into operational processes. The need to take action on analytics, not just be informed by them, has never been more urgent. The relentless externalization of business, the rapid emergence of loosely coupled computing environments based on standards and the Web-as-the-platform paradigm are all driving BI in a new and exciting direction. This is an extraordinary opportunity for the BI community, but only for those who can adapt to the changing circumstances. Where are the strongest signs of a shift? Factors influencing BI's future fall into three categories, with important subjects as part of each of them: new capabilities, including search and guided navigation, master data management, semantics and operational BI; technology architecture changes, including service oriented architecture, Web 2.0, Web services, emerging standards, Ajax and intelligent, real-time agents; and external (to the BI industry) drivers, such as open source, business externalization and Moore's Law. http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/bi/showArticle.jhtml?artic leID=192200066 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enterprise-Quality Open Source Implementation of WSRP GlassFish Blog Sun Microsystems has delivered the first code drop into the WSRP.dev.java.net seb site. This drop is an evolution of the same code used in PS 7.0; the first installment includes only the WSRP Producer code, but the remaining pieces will follow. It is one more addition to the growing collection of OpenSource projects, building a complete Enterprise-Quality Middleware Software at Java.Net. This project aims to: (1) build a community of developers who are committed to increasing the quality of the WSRP implementation; (2) demonstrate uncompromising commitment to test-first development and code review for all code coming into the project; (3) have a fast turn-around time for getting bug fixes into the hands of users. The key features that are planned are: Provide a WSRP v1 Producer; Provide a WSRP v1 Consumer that can consume Remote Portlets exported by any WSRP v1 Producer; Provide support for Registries that allow publishing and discovery of remote portlets; Provide support for user identity propagation and other security and policy capabilities between the Producer and the Consumer. http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/our_open_source_implementation_of See also WSRP Open Source Project: https://wsrp.dev.java.net/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ransom Payments Set Maps Free Aliya Sternstein, Federal Computer Week Jared Benedict of Marlboro, Vt., has raised enough money to centralize all official government topographic maps online for free public downloading from the Internet. Until now, the more than 56,000 digital topographic maps have been scattered among many Web sites; Benedict was unavailable for comment at press time. A significant number of states charge citizens to download the data from the Web. Benedict recently purchased most of the data from a private vendor and then held the maps for a $1,600 ransom to recoup the expense: "Once the $1,600 ransom is met, all maps will be handed over to the Internet Archive. The Internet Archive will make every map available for free download forever!" The Internet Archive, a nonprofit entity that offers access to historical collections in digital format, will eventually make every map available for free public access. The U.S. Geological Survey, which is responsible for distributing government maps, produced the maps on paper then scanned them into digital formats. They show details of physical features such as mountains and rivers, which can make them useful for families planning outdoor expeditions, students researching land change or businesses planning expansions. http://www.fcw.com/article95833-08-29-06-Web ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinventing the Internet, Part 3: Unlocking the Potential of the URI Jason Kolb, Blog I was born and bred in the relational database, web-based application world. I cut my programming teeth on Microsoft technology like ASP, ASP.NET, and SQL Server. So I grew up thinking of a URL as a way to get to a page or application on the Web, or maybe somewhere on an internal network. To me, a URI = DNS work, and as a programmer it was something the network guys took care of. Later in my programming career I thought of a URI as a way into a REST API. But for the most part, it was one of those things I took for granted, an ingredient in my standard technology stew. It got me where I needed to go, but I now realize that I wasn't seeing the forest for the trees. It wasn't until just recently that I started re-looking at the URI. Recently I began combing thru the XMPP specs that make up the core of Jabber, and something dawned on me: a URI can be used to get to ANYTHING. And ANYTHING is the key word here, because I'm not just talking about a blog, or email, or an instant messaging account. I had always thought in terms of directories, pages, and REST and Web Service endpoints, but not in terms of resources and living, breathing objects at the other end. And what I really missed is the fact that you have complete freedom to determine what that resource is. Yes, a page or a subdirectory is a resource, and a REST service is a resource, but there's no reason to stop there. In fact, if you don't stop there, a whole new world of possibilities open up when you look at it from the standpoint of a global decentralized database. http://www.jasonkolb.com/weblog/2006/08/reinventing_the_2.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Goes Live Sean Michael Kerner, InternetNews.com Ever wanted to run Fedora Core Linux as a Live CD? Well now you can. Though Red Hat's sponsored community distribution, Fedora Core, includes a lot of applications and has an easy-to-use installer, it has long been missing a critical piece, namely a Live CD. The Live Fedora CD is a product of the FedoraUnity.org community group, which is composed of site maintainers, Fedora Project contributors, and interested users. The Live CD is part of the Fedora Unity "re-spins," which are ISOs of Fedora Core releases with additional up-to-date applications already bundled in. With a Live CD, users can run Fedora from their media drives without the need to actually physically install the OS on their hard drives. According to Fedora Unity Co-Founder Bob Jensen: "The biggest item in my opinion is a newer (2.6.17-1.2174) kernel... This brings added hardware support for those who had issues with the initial Fedora Core 5 release... Naturally there are many more update packages like KDE and gnome also." A Live Fedora CD has been one of the most requested projects by Fedora users. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3629161 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cover Pages Sponsors ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BEA Systems, Inc. http://www.bea.com IBM Corporation http://www.ibm.com Innodata Isogen http://www.innodata-isogen.com SAP AG http://www.sap.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter subscribe: xml-dailynews-subscribe@lists.xml.org Newsletter unsubscribe: xml-dailynews-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org Newsletter help: xml-dailynews-help@lists.xml.org Cover Pages: http://xml.coverpages.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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