Finding the Web services 'sweet spot'

Daniel Foody writes in CNET-News, 29th Jan.2004, Finding the Web services 'sweet spot':

Does Web services management belong in the domain of the application platforms? Does it belong in the domain of the systems management platforms? Is it truly a new market? Those in the industry state with absolute certainty that they know the answer. Unfortunately, their answers vary. As you would expect, it's not as clear-cut as any of the industry folks might have you believe.

Heterogeneous central visibility is foreign to application platforms but typical of systems management products. On the other hand, active in-network control is something foreign to systems management products but typical of application platforms. Coordinating in-network control across heterogeneous projects requires a careful blend of functionality drawn from both systems management and application platforms. This is the "sweet spot" of Web services management.

XML:DB native XML database API and its implementation in Apache Xindice

Peter V. Mikhalenko reports in CNET-Asia-Builder, XML:DB native XML database API and its implementation in Apache Xindice

The XML:DB API is designed to enable a common access mechanism to native XML databases. The API enables the construction of applications to store, retrieve, modify and query data that is stored in an XML database.

XML:DB API can be considered generally equivalent to technologies such as ODBC, JDBC or Perl DBI.

Apache Xindice is a native database designed from the ground up to be especially valuable when you have very complex XML structures that would be difficult or impossible to map to a more structured database.

Knowledge augmentation

Denham Grey writes Knowledge-at-work: Knowledge augmentation: "key practices that lead to effective knowledge creation, increase awareness and assist teams to leverage their tacit understandings"

• Discover and share distinctions & heuristics
  
• Engage in collaborative reification (writing)
  
• Speed learning cycles - OODA loops
  
• Conduct community inquiry
  
• Write patterns
  
• Use Patterns
  

CIPS Connections - Bill French Interview

Stephen Ibaraki of CIPS Connections, interviews Bill French of MyST Technologies.

Template Files for Web Projects

e-consultancy.com has published a set of Template Files for Web Projects : including the following:

• Contract for Web Services
  
• Web Project Plan
  
• Usability (various)
  
• Site Map
  
• Functional Specification
  
• Technical Specification
  
• Content Plan
  
• Privacy Policy
  
• User Agreement
  
• Wireframes
  
• Style Guide
  
• Maintenance and Service Level Agreement
  
• Site Evaluation Framework
  

(A more comprehensive version is available for purchase.)