Conference Sessions
Thursday Morning, May 27, 1999    9:00am-11:00am  

This session will focus on how to apply XML technology to change marketing. THe discussion focuses on real world problems and solutions being addressed in Germany. Also outlined are details of how these solutions can be used for solving the business-to-business catalogue and information processing problem.

Christian Gross has the chance to coach, mentor and review scalable, robust enterprise applic-ations at various financial institutions, including National Westminster Bank of England, LGT Bank of Liechtenstein German Sparkasse Bank, Standard Life, and the Union Bank of Switzerland.

This talk gives an overview of (1) issues and problems to be solved with workflow systems, (2) standards efforts currently evolving in the Workflow Management Coalition, the OMG workflow RFP, and (3) the SWAP protocol.

Surendra Reddy has more than 12 years of experience in design and development of distributed applications. He is currently working for Oracle Corporation.

This course starts off with a quick introduction to XML, and provides a groundwork for good design of your XML format. Then we address inspecting integration issues, focusing on Java technologies, solving how to get your Java project to both read and write your XML format.

Jason Purdy works for Trilogy Software, in Austin, Texas. He has over 10 years of programming experience, picking up Java from its inception, and has written numerous articles and given presentations on Java technologies.

XML is used for business data representation and user interface definition within the Electronic Commerce Engine. We will show that using XML simplifies and standardizes delivery of information via the web and electronic data interchange, and discuss the advantages provided by XML.

Chris Bennett is an IT Consultant with Unisys Canada where he works on the Atlantic Canada Online project. He has designed and developed XML-based mechanisms for remote machine access and user interface definition.

The talk will discuss how XML fits into a typical documentation process for industry product applications. Special focus will be on fully automatic creation and management of hyperlinks (XLinks / Xpointer).

Tom Jell is a Senior Principal Consultant in the Best Practice Center at Siemens Business Services (Munich). He is the author of OBJEKTORIENTIERTE PROGRAMMIERUNG IN C++ and Editor of COMPONED-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING.

XFDL (Extensible Forms Description Language) is an XML-based language designed to represent complex, secure, and intelligent business forms on the Web. In this session we will outline the capabilities and limitations of XFDL's assertion-based computational model and discuss the practical application of XFDL computations in e-commerce applications, as well as strategies for ex-tending XFDL's computational facility using C++ and Java.

Dave Manning is Chief Technical Officer for UWI.Com. He is a co-founder of UWI.Com, and has led the company's research and develop-ment efforts since its inception.

The freely-available "Hyperwizard" application lets document authors be Web programmers. This presentation introduces the Hyperwizard application, outlines its associated document type definition, gives instructions on how to download and use the Hyperwizard application, and presents case studies from Web sites that have been developed using the Hyperwizard technology.

Neill A. Kipp is Senior Consultant and President of KSS Technologies. He has 10 years experience providing solutions to cutting-edge problems in hypermedia, electronic publishing, markup languages, human - computer interaction, usability engineering, and object-oriented software design.

XML repositories are natural components in an architecture centered around XML: they enable to centrally store content and to have it accessible by users and by content management applications such as dynamic publishing, e-commerce, etc. This talk will be centered around the needed functionality for an XML repository, presents alternative repository architectures and describes the existing techniques for implementing query languages for XML.

Fernando Velez is Chief Scientist of the Object Technology Business Unit with Ardent Software, and the editor of the OQL chapter of the ODMG Object Database standard.

Dynamic XML Servers have started to emerge as a unique category in the XML marketplace as a dynamic information-processing hub that may serve as an application server linking Internet communication systems with back-office systems, such as Oracle databases or SAP ERP systems via XML documents. This presentation will look at what a dynamic XML server is and how to develop and deploy many applications.

Bob Bickel, senior vice president, products has overall responsibility for the software product business at Bluestone Software including over-seeing product strategy, corporate relationships, and development.