(March 20, 2002) - OASIS members have formed the OASIS XML Common Biometric Format (XCBF) Technical Committee to provide a standard XML schema for biometrics. XCBF will describe information that verifies identity based on human characteristics such as DNA, fingerprints, iris scans, and...

AmberPointTM, Inc. has introduced AmberPoint Management FoundationTM, the first product of a comprehensive suite of management solutions for XML Web applications. AmberPoint Management Foundation transforms Web service-based systems into production-ready assets, making them easy to mon...

(August 22, 2002) - Tarius Interactive, a pharmaceutical knowledge management system based on XML architecture, has introduced the next generation of its Tarius Interactive search engine, which enables database users to search for phrases, synonyms, and keywords in an even more user-fr...

(October 24, 2002) - Altova Inc.'s AUTHENTIC 5 is available now as a placeholder control for the newly released Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 (CMS 2002). AUTHENTIC 5 is a standards-based, browser-enabled document editor that puts business content directly in XML format throu...

(February 3, 2003) - Veridocs is offering XMLdocs, an XML authoring and document management system, at no cost to single subscribers. XMLdocs Beta Version is available free for a limited time at http://my.xmldocs.com/register. XMLdocs Version 1, slated for release in March 2003, will...

(April 23, 2003) - XML Professional Publisher Version 7.2, the latest release of XyEnterprise's publishing software, contains new features to enhance the creation, deployment, and support of XML publishing environments. A standards-based composition, transformation and rendering softwa...

(June 24, 2003) -The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the SOAP Version 1.2 Recommendation, consisting of the SOAP Version 1.2 Primer, the SOAP Version 1.2 Messaging Framework, SOAP Version 1.2 Adjuncts, and the SOAP Version 1.2 Specification Assertions and Test Collection. ...

(January 22, 2002) – If anyone ever forgets that XML is not a language but a metalanguage, or thinks that it's new (it’s not – it builds on 30 years of research and 14 years of SGML standardization), or doesn't realize that all XML languages can be processed by a single lightweight par...

(March 20, 2002) - SilverStream Software, Inc. has announced the general availability of SilverStream eXtend™ Composer 3.5, the company's award-winning XML integration server that enables organizations to maximize the potential of new and existing business systems by transforming them ...

This past May, ADOS participated as an independent software vendor in the RosettaNet InterOperability Fest 2002 in Tokyo, where it successfully demonstrated RosettaNet cross-company interconnectivity testing with 22 trading partners and ten other ISVs. ADOS XML Server Mighty has alrea...

(August 21, 2002) - Fujitsu Software Corporation has successfully shown Business Process interoperability utilizing B2B specifications that are being developed to meet the needs of the North American automotive industry. The demonstration executed a business process scenario developed...

(November 7, 2002) -- The members of the OASIS interoperability consortium have approved the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) v1.0 as an OASIS Open Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. Although Gartner analysts forecast rapid adoption of SAML, t...

(February 19, 2003) - Altova 's XML document editor product, AUTHENTIC 5, will now be available to the public through a free software license. 'Offering AUTHENTIC 5 under a free license means that corporate IT departments, even those under tight spending constraints, can implement XML ...

(April 23, 2003) - The possibilities of XForms, an emerging W3C standard (W3C Candidate Recommendation), are explored in IBM alphaWork's new XML Forms Package. This release allows developers to deploy XForms applications using existing J2EE-based server technologies and simple Web brow...

(June 25, 2003) - The Mind Electric (TME) has released version 4.1 of TME GLUE™. TME GLUE is a comprehensive Web services platform for Java developers creating, deploying, and managing applications with Web services, JSPs, and servlets. TME GLUE 4.1 provides an easy-to-use, high...

(March 20, 2002) - Software AG, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Software AG, Europe's largest systems software provider and a pioneer in XML technologies, has released the Tamino XML Server Version 3.1. This new version represents comprehensive advancements in functionality, support, and ...

(June 20, 2002) - IXIASOFT, a leading provider of XML searching and publishing technology, has just introduced a Java API for TEXTML Server, a Native XML Server designed from the ground up to store, index and retrieve XML documents. The new Java API provides greater platform interoper...

September 9, 2002) - Software AG, Inc., and Active Data Exchange, Inc., have formed a strategic sales and technology alliance to provide a content distribution management solution across multiple enterprises.

(November 21, 2002) - Members of the OASIS standards consortium have formed a technical committee to advance an open, XML-based file format specification for office applications. The new OASIS Open Office XML Format Technical Committee brings together representatives throughout the ind...

(February 19, 2003) - Like many other top enterprises, Microsoft has realized the value of IXIASOFT's native XML database technology to help manage, store, retrieve and index mission critical documents. Users no longer have to shoehorn their rich XML documents in relational databases:...

(April 23, 2003) - In an odd twist, even though the WWW was conceived by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and the first public release of a WWW client and server was in 1991, such 'prior art' (as it is known in patent circles) seems not to have discouraged New Jersey-based Charlie Northrup from...

(June 25, 2003) - StrikeIron, Inc., a Web services software development company, has unveiled its first product, the StrikeIron™ Web Services Analyzer. It provides business intelligence analysts, knowledge workers and software developers with the ability to locate and understand t...

(February 12, 2002) – Altova, Inc. has announced the release of the XML Spy 4.3 Suite, a comprehensive product-line of developer tools for advanced XML application development, consisting of the XML Spy 4.3 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the XML Spy 4.3 XSLT Designer, and th...

(March 20, 2002) - Macromedia, Inc. unveiled Macromedia Flash MX, the latest version of the Macromedia Flash development environment, which will usher in a new generation of rich Internet content and applications. With support for video, application components, and accessibility, this ...

(June 19, 2002) - eXcelon Corporation has announced the latest release of its Stylus Studio XSLT Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Stylus Studio 4.0 enables development teams to deliver higher quality XML and XSLT applications faster by enabling developers to visually define XM...

(September 9, 2002) - With 135,000 members across Massachusetts, Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP) faced two tough challenges. First, NHP needed to leverage the Web to automate patient referral and eligibility processes and provide accurate information to its members and providers. Seco...

(November 21, 2002) - Novell plans to provide visual tools based on the emerging XForms standard in the next major release of Novell exteNd, its J2EE-based Web application development suite. Developed by the W3C, XForms enables information to be presented as XML to provide a next-gener...

(February 19, 2003) - The beta version of ZeoSphere XR, a mobile infrastructure software suite with On Demand Mobile Server technology, is now available from Zeosoft. New in ZeoSphere XR is XML/RPC for distributed computing, and support for the Oracle9i Lite database. With ZeoSphere XR...

(May 6, 2003) - Through collaborative and coordinated effort between W3C's XML Query Working Group and XSL Working Group, a collection of ten updated working draft specifications has been issued for public review and comment. XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model and XQuery 1.0 and XPath...

(June 25, 2003) - OpenLink Software, Inc., announces Virtuoso 3.2 - the latest edition of its cross platform Virtual Database for SQL, XML, and Web Services - for Mac® OS X. The new release incorporates full client and server support for the Blogger, Moveable Type, and MetaWeblog A...

(February 12, 2002) -- IXIASOFT, the leader in native XML database technology, and Altova Inc., the leader in XML development tools, announce the availability of the XML Spy integration kit. The free package, downloadable from IXIASOFT's Web site, enables the widespread XML Spy user co...

(March 20, 2002) -Microsoft has released the second beta of Microsoft® Visual J#? .NET, a development tool for Java-language developers who want to build applications and services on the Microsoft .NET Framework. Visual J# .NET is the first Java-language development tool to run on a pl...

(July 2, 2002) - BEA Systems, Intalio, SAP AG, and Sun Microsystems have announced the publication of the XML-based Web Service Choreography Interface (WSCI). This new specification is available for public comment at the companies' respective Web sites (see links below). WSCI provides ...

(September 10, 2002) - Popkin Software has announced full, integrated support for the first public draft 1.0 of the Business Process Modeling Language (BPML 1.0) in its flagship enterprise modeling tool, System Architect. Created under the auspices of the Business Process Management In...

(November 21, 2002) - XIS Lite, eXcelon Corporation's new version of its native XML database management system, eXtensible Information Server (XIS) offers the same functionality as XIS, but scaled to smaller projects, with a lower cost to match. XIS Lite is designed to enable customer...

(February 19, 2003) - Corel Corporation's Corel XMetaL 4 is a new platform that extends XML content editing to virtually any Windows application, including e-mail and Web browsers. The Corel XMetaL 4 platform provides the only richly-customizable XML editing solutions that support dyna...

(May 6, 2003) - TIBCO Software Inc. describes the new TIBCO XML Canon 2.4 as 'the first solution that gives customers the ability to manage and leverage their investment in XML enterprise metadata.' The solution is designed to help build a robust information infrastructure, and lay the...

(June 26, 2003) - The SALT Forum, a group of companies with a shared goal of accelerating the use of speech technologies in multimodal and telephony systems, has published a SALT profile for the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) markup language. The new SVG profile supplements the S...