You might have seen the recent news reports about the collision between U.S. and Russian communication satellites. The U.S. satellite was one of the Iridium satellites. What wasn’t reported and you probably don’t know is that an object database management system (ODBMS) is an important part of the Iridium system. Even though ODBMSs are a [...]
February 13, 2009
I am now also posting on the Cutter Blog. My initial posting is (The Acronym) SOA is (Perhaps) Dead (at Some Companies); Long Live Services. It is a response to Anne Thomas Manes’ SOA is Dead; Long Live Services on her blog at the Burton Group.
January 9, 2009
The typical definition of an atomic task or process is one that cannot be decomposed further. This is vague and subject to interpretation. The Decomposition Matrix on this site uses a specific definition: A task (for business process diagrams) or a process (for data flow diagrams) is atomic if every input relates to every output [...]
December 3, 2008
My last posting referenced the criteria for a well-formed business process diagram mentioned in Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. I am going to expand on their criteria to create a more comprehensive definition of a well-formed business process diagram. To start, here are three criteria [...]
November 18, 2008
I recently received two new books on business process modeling. Both books looked interesting because they had great titles. As it turns out, one book is great and the other not so good. The not so good book is Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. There [...]
October 9, 2008
The Design Decomposition Blog is written by Doug Barry.
DocBook: XML/SGML vocabulary particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).
Organization: OASIS. More
information: DocBook
page on the OASIS website (new window).
PROSE/XML: XML specification intended to be a standardized method for publishers to communicate job specifications to commercial printers. In as far as it enforces certain formats for its data, and thereby standardizes the "look" of the data, the PROSE/XML specification rarely defines its content data values. It is left up to the trading partners, to determine the proper values for the content data transmitted via the PROSE/XML specification. Organization: IDEAlliance. More
information: PROSE/XML page on the
IDEAllance website (new window).
Shipment and Logistics Specification (S'nL): XML message specification for efficient communication among those providing delivery instructions, transportation planning, and distribution services for shipment of printed product. SnL is made up of a family of related specifications. These specifications include: shipment plan, shipment notification, print order message, and goods receipt message. Organization: IDEAlliance. More
information: S'nL page on the
IDEAllance website (new window).
XML Book Industry Transaction Standards (XBITS): XBITS is a Working Group of IDEAlliance and a Book Industry Study Group (BISG)/ Book Industry Standards and Communcations (BISAC) publisher and manufacturer committee that is designing standard XML transactions to facilitate bi-directional electronic data exchanges between publishers, printers, paper mills, and component vendors using papiNet as a basis. Organization: IDEAlliance. More
information: XBITS page on the
IDEAllance website (new window).
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HR-XML Consortium, Inc., Recertifies Questionmark MarketWatch (press release) NORWALK, Conn., Jan 27, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The HR-XML Consortium has recertified testing and assessment technologies and services provider Questionmark as conforming to the Consortium's open data exchange standards. Conformance to standards can ... and more » 27 Jan 2012 at 9:01am
IXIASOFT Announces the Availability of DITA CMS v3.4 MarketWatch (press release) MONTREAL, CANADA, Feb 01, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- IXIASOFT, the XML component content management market leader, announced today the availability of the IXIASOFT DITA CMS v3.4. With full support of DITA 1.2 features, the DITA CMS continues to ... and more » 1 Feb 2012 at 10:04am
Security researchers break satellite phone encryption Infosecurity Magazine (US) Researchers from Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) in Germany have successfully broken XML encryption, which leaves web services vulnerable to attack. Two security researchers claim to have found a way of breaking the SSL/TLS encryption that is widely used ... and more » 3 Feb 2012 at 6:47am
XML: Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) by Kevin Howard Goldberg Description: What is XML? XML, or eXtensible Markup Language, is a specification for storing information. It is also a specification for describing the structure of that information. And while XML is a markup language (just like HTML), XML has no tags of its own. It allows the person writing the XML to create whatever tags they need. The only condition is that these newly created tags adhere t...
New Perspectives on XML, Second Edition, Comprehensive (New Pespectives) by Patrick Carey Description: Updated to teach the most current XML standards, this book uses real-world case studies and a practical, step-by-step approach to teach XML. It provides extensive coverage of DTDs, namespaces, schemas, Cascading Style Sheets, XSLT, XPath, and programming with the WSC document object model.
