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Wednesday Morning, May 26, 1999    9:00am-11:00am  

  W1

Components, XML and DHTM - The Perfect User Interface

What do you get when you combine components, DHTMAL and XML? A perfect user interface, if you know what pieces to use and how to put it together. Presented in this session are the techniques used to build that perfect user interface.

Christian Gross
Christian Gross

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.

 
  W2

Harnessing the Power of Server-Side XML

This presentation discusses: XML as a universal data format; how server-side XML can eliminate the need for application servers to manage data translation and work around data models of other components; the critical need for a high-performance XML data server in the middle tier; how using XML as a distributed data model can drastically reduce the costs of integrating legacy systems, proprietary components and third party tools.

Coco Jaenicke
Coco Jaenicke

Coco Jaenicke is the XML evangelist and product marketing manager for Object Design, Inc. where she focuses on the company's Windows and XML-based product strategies.

 
  W3

Java in XML

This introductory lecture describes the current technologies, toolkits, and API's available for combining XML and Java. Also included will be a brief case study describing the use of XML in the medical community, and why Java and xml make quintessential bedfellows in the quest to design portable large-scale data distribution systems over the internet.


Daniel Zen & John McGann

Daniel Zen of Zen Digital, has been consulting & training on internet and web technologies since 1995.

John McGann is a consultant currently designing an intranet-based application for Salomon Smith Barney, designed for use by the firm's retail sales force.

 
Wednesday Afternoon, May 26, 1999     2:30pm-4:00pm
  W4

Designing Mark-Up for Precision Retrieval

As anyone who has searched the Web knows, markup that is sufficient for display may not provide the basis for good searching. Markup sets (tags) can be designed to increase both recall and relevance, thus improving search precision. Techniques for designing markup for precise retrieval will be discussed, as are the advantages of such markup, and the costs.

Tommie Usdin
Tommie Usdin

Tommie Usdin is President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., Chair of GCA's Markup Technologies Conferences, and Co-Editor of MARKUP LANGUAGES: THEORY & PRACTICE.

 
  W5

Facilitating Knowledge Engineering With XML

XML enables you to better structure documents, data about documents and information about your organization. With examples from consulting, finance and retail industries, we'll explore how you can use XML to manage knowledge.

Kurt D. Fenstermacher
Kurt D. Fenstermacher

Kurt D. Fenstermacher, a computer science instructor at The University of Chicago, focuses on designing knowledge management solutions within organizations. He is also the author of ACTIVEX FOR DUMMIES.

 
  W6

Secrets to Using Object Databases With XML

In this session we will discuss what standards exist to declaratively work with objects. Object databases have sophisticated schema languages, a query language and notions of relationships and ownership. These are in many ways related to XML-specific schema, query and linking languages. With a few exceptions, the needs of document processing are not very different from the needs of the rest of the object-processing world.

Paul Prescod
Paul Prescod

Paul Prescod is a consulting engineer with ISOGEN corporation. He has designed structured editor user interfaces, built online SGML courses, helped to design the XML language, and co-wrote the XML HANDBOOK with Charles Goldfarb.

 
Wednesday Afternoon, May 26, 1999     4:15pm-5:45pm
  W7

Extending Business Process Boundaries With XML and the Web

This session will talk about the different ways and benefits of using an open standard such as Web-based XML to integrate and disperse applications. XML is the cost-effective and better alternative to EDI, it can be used to drastically improve efficiency, reduce costs, and increase sales for an organization by linking business partners that trade together over the Web.

Tarun Sharma
Tarun Sharma

Tarun Sharma is Director & Chief Architect, Application Specific Components at EC Cubed. He has been published widely in technical magazines and has also co-authored PROGRAMMING WEB COMPONENTS (1997), by McGraw-Hill.

 
  W8

XFDL - Representing Business and Government forms in XML

This presentation provides an overview of the capabilities of the XFDL language and illustrates them with a practical application of the technology. Specific attention will be paid to the business advantages gained through the use of XFDL as compared to other popular internet technologies.

Christopher Dudenas
Christopher Dudenas

Christopher Dudenas is a corporate trainer with UWI.Com. He has been involved with XFDL training since its initial publication.

 
  W9

Understanding the Document Object Model

The Document Object Model is an import component of the XML family. It is a platform and language independent interface that allows objects in a web document to communicate in a structured way. This talk will describe what DOM is all about, its importance and its syntax.

Reaz Hoque
Reaz Hoque

Reaz Hoque s an author, lecturer and software developer. His recent books include PRACTICAL JAVASCRIPT PROGRAMMING, CORBA 3 DEVELOPERS GUIDE, INFOBUS PROGRAMMING, JAVABEANS 1.1 and PROGRAMMING WEB COMPONENTS.


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