SUNDAY
• DECEMBER 3, 2000
Morning Half-Day Tutorials
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
(MANAGEMENT AND NEWCOMERS)
A Manager's Introduction to XML
This course provides a non-technical introduction to
XML. The instructor does not attempt to teach the bits
and bytes of XML, but rather provides a historical perspective
on the origin of XML and its business application. The
XML family of standards is introduced and current applications
of XML will be highlighted.
Prerequisites: None
Logistics: None
by Wendell Piez, Senior XML/SGML Consultant, Mulberry
Technologies, Inc.
An
Introduction to Topic Maps for Business Applications
Topic Maps is the latest "hot" new information
technology. Topic Maps provide us with an ISO standard
way to specify and apply knowledge navigation mapping
over both new and legacy information sources. You can
use Topic Maps to integrate separate information sources
as well as increase the speed and relevance of search.
This tutorial begins with a non-technical introduction
to the Topic Maps standard for managers and beginners.
We examine a variety of business applications for topic
maps. Several actual commercial Internet-and intranet-based
Topic Maps and Topic Maps applications will be demonstrated
and discussed.
Prerequisites: None
Logistics: None
by Michel Biezunski, Founding Partner, InfoLoom,
Inc., Steven R. Newcomb, President, TechnoTeacher,
Inc.
(IMPLEMENTERS)
An Implementer's Introduction to BizTalk
BizTalk is an industry initiative started by Microsoft
and designed to ease the implementation of business-to-business
solutions. This tutorial provides the information
necessary to get started with BizTalk and to implement
XML as an integral part of common business processes.
Prerequisites: None
Logistics: None
by Chris Ziener, Director, Noonetime
Working
with XML Technologies from Java
This half-day session shows developers how to use several
important XML technologies from Java, including the
Document Object Model (DOM), XPointers, eXtensible Style
Sheet Language (XSL), and the Java API for XML Parsers
(JAXP). It provides a practical follow-on to any initial
introduction to XML. Using widely available parsers,
XML documents are parsed and manipulated from Java code
using DOM, XPointers, XSL, and XQL. This session briefly
reviews the fundamentals of each technology before explaining
how to use it in Java.
Prerequisites: Basic Understanding of XML and
Java.
Logistics: None
by James Lynn, Technical Training Manager, Bluestone
Software, Inc.
Creating
DTD's/Schemas for EDI Applications
This tutorial demonstrates practical approaches for
using XML with traditional EDI (X12 and EDIFACT) applications.
XML is an enabling technology that will allow small
and medium-sized enterprises (SME) the opportunity to
become trading partners with larger organizations. Traditional
EDI is very expensive for SME's. The tutorial shows
how XML can be used as a lower cost solution for trading
partners.
Prerequisites: None
Logistics: None
by Betty Harvey, President, Electronic Commerce
Connection, Inc.
The
W3C Document Object Model, Part 1 Theory
More and more businesses are using XML as the syntax
language of choice for marking up information in such
a way that software and systems can easily process it.
The W3C Document Object Model is one of the most popular
choices for accessing and manipulating this information.
This tutorial gives participants an introduction to
the DOM, showing how the DOM provides a set of tools
to find and use the information stored in XML documents
and data.
Pre-requisites: Participants should have a basic
understanding of XML and programming, including what
an applications programming interface is.
Logistics: None
by Lauren Wood, Director of Product Technology,
SoftQuad Software, Inc., John
Turnbull, Chief Scientist, SoftQuad Software, Inc.,
and Philippe Le Hegaret, SoftQuad Software, Inc.
Afternoon
Half-Day Tutorials
2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
(MANAGEMENT
AND NEWCOMERS)
XML & Electronic Commerce
This tutorial provides a comprehensive introduction
to XML as the foundation technology for the next
generation of electronic commerce. The tutorial
emphasizes the importance of "domain-specific
languages" like OBI, RosettaNet, OAG, OTA,
and XML/EDI. It also introduces the CommerceNet
eCo specifications, the Common Business Library,
and the ebXML initiative, which share the goal of
ensuring interoperability among Internet trading
communities and marketplaces, based on the heritage
of EDI standards like X.12 and UN/EDIFACT.
Prerequisites: None
Logistics: None
by Robert J. Glushko, Director of Document Engineering
and Arofan Gregory, Lead Scientist, Commerce
One
XML:
The Business Case
It is becoming clear that XML will be one of the next-generation
language leaders on the Web. Implementing XML can be a
substantial investment of time and money and one that
requires thorough consideration and a good business case.
This tutorial is designed to help you understand the business
benefits of XML and to justify the cost of implementing
XML, whether your objective is to support multiple outputs
or to re-engineer your information production processes.
Prerequisites: None
Logistics: None
by Norma Haakonstad, Regional Sales VP and Beth Ambaruch,
Public Relations Manager, Arbortext, Inc.
(IMPLEMENTERS)
Technical Introduction Topic Maps
This tutorial, presented by two of the editors of
ISO/IEC 13250, provides a technical introduction to
Topic Maps, the model, and its conceptual foundations.
Among the topics discussed are: the ISO and XTM standards,
Linking and addressing, RDF, the components of Topic
Maps and their interchange syntaxes. The tutorial
concludes with demonstrations.
Prerequisites: None
Logistics: None
by Michel Biezunski, Founding Partner, InfoLoom,
Inc., Steven R. Newcomb, President, TechnoTeacher,
Inc.
XMI:
XML and Objects
The XML Metadata Interchange Standard specifies how to
write objects
in XML files. Given an object-oriented model, such as
a UML model, XMI
also specifies how to create a DTD, thus validating documents
that
contain objects that are defined by the model. This tutorial
provides a brief introduction to XMI, with examples of
XMI documents and XMI DTDs.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of XML
Logistics: None
by Timothy J. Grose, Advisory Software Engineer,
IBM Corporation
Building
an XML-Based Web Site using Open Source Tools
This tutorial focuses on the implementation details of
an XML backed Web site. It covers how to build syndicated
content for other Web sites to make use of, and how to
make use of syndicated content from other Web sites. It
discusses building XMLNews based Web sites for a "news
room" type environment, and look at how we give power
to both the content authors and to the server-side developers,
without having to make compromises for either side. Finally,
the instructor examines the options for building dynamic
content from legacy (or new) relational databases and
other environments by using extensible Server Pages.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of XML
Logistics: None
by Chris Ziener, Director, Noonetime
The
W3C Document Object Model, Part 2 Hands-on*
No purely theoretical course can replace the hands-on
experience this introduction to the W3C DOM provides.
Led by the W3C DOM WG Chair, this is an opportunity to
find out how the DOM really works in today's XML products.
Participants can either solve exercises provided by the
tutorial instructor, or take the opportunity to work on
specific problems of their own.
Pre-requisites: Attendance at part 1 of the DOM
tutorial, or equivalent knowledge. Attendees should know
a scripting language; the one they know will determine
which DOM implementation they can use.
Logistics: Attendees must bring their own laptop,
or arrange to share with someone else taking the course.
They should download and install an appropriate DOM implementation,
depending on the scripting language they wish to use.
Examples are the latest version of Microsoft Internet
Explorer or Mozilla for JavaScript, a recent version of
Perl including the XML:DOM module for Perl, and the latest
implementation of 4DOM from FourThought (FourThought.com)
for Python. Participants are welcome to email the tutorial
instructor for advice, lauren@softquad.com,
at least two weeks before the conference.
by Lauren Wood, Director of Product Technology,
SoftQuad Software, Inc., John
Turnbull, Chief Scientist, SoftQuad Software, Inc.,
and Philippe Le Hegaret, SoftQuad Software, Inc.
*Attendees
will be provided download information when registration
is confirmed.
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