Greater XML: Your Next Distributed Computing Environment

by John R. Rymer

When we last visited the phenomenon known as XML (Extensible Markup Language), the technology was showing great promise as a data-interchange format for legacy-to-Web strategies. That was in June 2000 (see " Business-to-Business E-Commerce Brings XML to the Forefront"). Fast-forward to the present day, and we find a variety of companies pushing XML into a much-expanded role in application development. XML's role as an Internet data transport mechanism is assured. But XML is becoming the basis for application processing logic as well. Consider:

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Greater XML: Your Next Distributed Computing Environment December 2000