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SOA/XML News on the Web

News from ZDNet, Tim Bray, SearchWebService.com and others

SearchWebServices.com
Key SOA standard WS-Policy expected to enter W3C
WS-Policy, the three-year-old Web services governance specification supported by rival vendors IBM and Microsoft is expected to finally make it into a standards body this week, most likely the W3C according to industry insiders.

SYS-CON India
Open AJAX Is Loosed Upon the World
Ironic in that AJAX comprises not only a seemingly modest collection of modest elements - XML and JavaScript - but that these elements are hardly new, work in a loosely coupled fashion, yet represent the leading edge of what's going on with application development in the world today.

Tim Bray
The Cost of AJAX
Do AJAX apps present more of a server-side load?

ZDNet
Bray: SOA too complex; 'just vendor BS'
XML co-founder Tim Bray posted his response to a question he was asked at a recent conference, "What do you think we should do about SOA?"

CityCribs.com
New Real Estate XML Feed Upload Capability
The ability to accept XML feeds will allow realtors in all major cities across the US to efficiently and effectively display real estate for sale or rent on the CityCribs site.

ZDNet
OpenDocument group 'optimistic' on certification
The recently formed OpenDocument Format Alliance is expressing its confidence that the file format will be approved by the International Organisation for Standardisation next month.

Computerworld
M-co made its own way to SOA
"Why did we choose web services and SOA?" Lee asks. "Because it is 'open', because we wanted to move to XML, and, hey, it's sexy, it keeps the staff happy. It also pulls the industry out of the dark ages."

NASCIO
NASCIO Webinar Series on Service Oriented Architecture
NASCIO's Enterprise Architecture Committee, in collaboration with its Corporate Leadership Council (CLC), will host a series of webinars on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), which is highly anticipated as a powerful technology innovation that can enable the "agile enterprise."

ZDNet: Between the Lines
Will or could RSS get forked?
Last week, while I was on vacation, I noticed that Dave Winer picked up on how Buy.com has extended RSS with a namespace. Buy.com is calling it "Product RSS."