The next meeting of the XML Users Group will be held on Wednesday,
February 18, 2004 at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) at 2000
Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20009-1277. The meeting starts
at 7:00 p.m. and usually last approximately 2 hours. If attending
the meeting by Metro, get off the Dupont Circle stop and walk
north to Florida Avenue...turn right.
Michael Hahn will be chairing the February meeting.
There is no cost associated with attending but if you are planning on
attending this meeting, please let us know so that we can give a list to
AGU management. You can register at:
http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/meeting-register.html
February, 2004
Peter Bostrom, Federal Technical Director, Westbridge Technology
Mr. Brostrom will present the XML Message Server (XMS). The West
bridge XMS provides schema validation, authentication, access control,
encryption, signature, malicious attack protection and deep inspection
(content filtering) for XML message streams. It provides a flexible
policy engine that leverages existing security infrastructure. It is
currently deployed in strenuous environments within the Federal
government and commercial companies.
Joe Chuisano, Booz Allen Hamilton
Understanding the Impact of Web Services Standards
As the adoption of Web Services has grown, so has the need for
Web Services standards. Consortiums such as W3C and OASIS are
developing Web Services standards and reference models in areas
as diverse as architecture, security, messaging, choreography,
and the semantic Web Services. The impact of current and emerging
standards on Web Services adoption and advancement is vast.
This session will provide a high-level survey of the current Web
Services standards "landscape", with an emphasis on standards and
recommendations from W3C, OASIS, and WS-I. Other open consortiums
(such as Liberty Alliance) will also be discussed, as will
specifications that have the potential to become open standards
(e.g. WS-Policy of GXA). Some of the standards to be covered are
"developed" (i.e. a version 1.0 specification has been released),
while others are emerging (i.e. a version 1.0 is in process, or
the standard has just been submitted to a consortium such as OASIS).
Additional standards that are not specifically Web Services-focused
(such as OASIS SAML) but have applications to Web Services will also
be examined.
Areas such as the following will be covered:
Web Services "Basics" - will cover foundational areas such as
SOAP and WSDL, and their latest activity;
Security - will cover current and emerging standards such as
OASIS WS-Security (security framework), OASIS SAML
(assertions/single sign-on), and OASIS XACML (access
control);
Choreography and Business Process - will cover current and
emerging standards such as OASIS WS BPEL (business
process), OASIS WS-CAF (transaction, coordination, and
context propagation), and the W3C Web Services Choreography
Activity;
Web Services Monitoring and Management - will cover current
and emerging standards such as the OASIS Web Services
Distributed Management (WSDM) TC;
Reliable Messaging - will cover potential, current and
emerging standards such as WS-ReliableMessaging (GXA)
and OASIS Web Services Reliable Messaging (WSRM)
The relationship and potential interaction between each area
discussed will be emphasized, with a focus on any current/potential
interactions between standards (such as between OASIS SAML and
WS-Security).
March, 2004
Karanjit Siyan, National Library of Medicine
XML W3C Schema Basics - Part I: This is Part I of a 2 part
presentation. This presentation will discuss content models:
empty, simple, complex, mixed. Basic data types and their
facets. Extension, restriction, list, union, patterns for
simple data types. Creation of complex data types, element
groups and attribute groups (Part II will be on XML W3C
Design and will get into schema design issues.
However, Part II will be presented on another date after
the Part I presentation.)
Diane Lewis, Departement of Justice, Justice Community XML Standards
The Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) is intended to
be a data reference model for the exchange of information
within the justice and public safety communities. GJXDM
is a product of the Global Justice Information Sharing
Initiative (Global) Infrastructure and Standards Working
Group (ISWG).
Currently we need speakers for both the technical and vendor presentation
portion of future meetings. If you would like to give a presentation at
a future meeting, please send e-mail or call Betty Harvey (410) 787-9200.
Share your knowledge and experience with others.
Hope to see you there.
Washington Area XML Users Group Web Site:
http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug
Electronic copies of papers supplied from speakers are
available on-line.
To subscribe to the Washington Area XML Users Group mailing
list, go to http://ecc05.eccnet.com/mailman/listinfo/xmlusers.
DIRECTIONS:
From Connecticut Avenue north of AGU, make a left onto
T Street (1 block before Florida Avenue). Drive one block,
the entrance to Atlantic Garage North should be on your
right.
From Connecticut Avenue of AGU, make your first right after Florida Avenue onto T Street. Drive one block. the
entrance to Atlantic Garage North should be on your right.
From I-66
- Continue east on I-66 to Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge. This
places you on Constitution Avenue.
- Take a left on 18th Street, NW and head north. Continue north to
Connecticut Avenue.
- Turn left (North) on Connecticut Avenue to Florida Avenue.
- Right on Florida Avenue. AGU is 1/2 block on the right at the
corner of 20th & Florida Avenue.
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Betty Harvey | Phone: 410-787-9200 FAX: 9830
Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. |
ha****@eccnet.com | Washington,DC SGML/XML Users Grp
URL: http://www.eccnet.com | http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/
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