My colleague wrote an article for XML-J two years ago about an opportunity we
had to solve our data management challenges with XML ("Managing Data Sources
with XSLT," www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=40411). The result of our work was
our XML Data Services (XDS), an XML data access language and processing
engine, which allowed us to quickly and easily manage the bi-directional
transform between data sources and XML. A couple years have passed, and new
challenges have arisen and been solved by leveraging our XML data access
engine and Web services.
My primary focus over the last couple of years has been enabling legacy data
sources and applications to provide visibility into the enterprise and enable
business process orchestration. These systems include everything from
la... (more)
Our journey began with our Department of Defense research projects when we
saw an opportunity to solve our data management challenges with XML
(http://xml.sys-con.com/read/40411.htm). The journey continued with the
evolution of that work as it applied to exposing legacy data sources as XML
through data-oriented Web services (http://xml.sys-con.com/read/45527.htm).
We continue to build up... (more)