Jim Gabriel has authored tens of thousands of pages of technical documentation, ranging from entry-level tutorial material to programmers' reference manuals. He is literate in XML, SGML, and XSL, among others.
This article describes how an essential precursor to any SOA implementation is a data modeling exercise that integrates all underlying data models, focusing more on the business requirements than on system- and application-specific requirements.
Feb. 2, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 18,958 Replies: 1
XML is object without source. There can be no development tools for XML until we find a way of creating source code. 'There's no such thing as an XML application.' A strong statement, perhaps, but what do we mean when we talk about an XML application? Is a publishing system that relies...
