We propose the use of XML for specifying and designing hardware. Many different methods for the specification of hardware designs are in use. The majority of these are based on either closed markup ...

With the ongoing rapid increase in both volume and diversity of 'omic' data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and others), the development and adoption of data standards is of paramount ...

COMMENTARY -- The promise of Web services and services-oriented architecture (SOA) is interoperability among disparate software components, regardless of platform. It's the next software development ...

Nearly everyone is talking about XML (Extensible Markup Language) these days. But few understand what it's really all about. XML's proponents claim it will cure everything that's wrong with HTML and ...

With Oracle Corp.’s annual OpenWorld conference on the horizon, database vendors are preparing for battle once again. This time around, the big three – IBM Corp., Oracle, and Microsoft Corp. – are ...

IBM is preparing to advance the XQuery XML query language on two fronts: by submitting with Microsoft a test suite for industry consideration and by working with Oracle on a Java API for the language.

Dan Cwenar is the chief operating officer for Access Data Corporation of Pittsburgh, a financial services industry software and consulting company whose clients include Invesco of Denver and Charles ...

REDMOND, Wash., March 19, 2002 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of the second beta of Microsoft® Visual J# (TM) .NET, a development tool for Java-language developers who want to ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: XML (the Extensible Markup Language) is a W3C-endorsed standard markup language for documents containing structured information. Its main purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data ...