XML has become such an important topic in the computer industry that enormous amounts of material have been written about it. This page contains links to a number of feature stories about XML that have originated from various sources both inside and outside of Sun.

Special Report

The Birth of XML: A Personal Recollection
By Jon Bosak

Jon Bosak, generally regarded as the father of XML, recalls just how it all began.

Press Releases

• INDUSTRY EFFORT TO DEFINE NATIVE WEB SERVICES SUPPORT IN J2EE^TM
  June 4, 2001
  Industry Leaders Band Together Using Java Community Process^SM
• WEB SERVICES PACK TO SIMPLIFY BUILDING JAVA^TM TECHNOLOGY-BASED WEB SERVICES
  June 4, 2001
  Major Vendors to Integrate Open Technologies in Java Web Services Tools
• SUN RELEASES THE FIRST JAVA^TM TECHNOLOGY-BASED IMPLEMENTATION OF ebXML REGISTRY AND REPOSITORY FOR WEB SERVICES
  June 4, 2001
• MOMENTUM & SUCCESS ARE SHOWCASED AT THE JAVAONE^SM CONFERENCE AS SUN CONTINUES TO SHAPE THE JAVA^TM PLATFORM INTO A KEY PART OF OPEN WEB SERVICES
  June 4, 2001
  Largest Developer Conference Kicks Off with 500 Technical Sessions Highlighting Java Technology and XML in the Heart of the Enterprise and on the Modern Client

Feature Articles

JAVA WEB SERVICES: WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE
Eric Armstrong, JavaWorld, June 7, 2001
Java Offers End-to-End, Top-to-Bottom, Client / Server Solutions

BUILDING WEB SERVICES
Heidi Dailey, java.sun.com, June 6, 2001

RICH CLIENTS FOR WEB SERVICES
Tom Ulrich, java.sun.com, June 5, 2001

SUN REDRAWS JAVA BLUEPRINT AROUND WEB SERVICES
Mark Leon & Ed Scannell, JavaWorld, June 5, 2001
XML-based Web services seen as critical for the Internet's next jump forward

• CREATING WEB SERVICES WITH JAVA^TM TECHNOLOGY AND XML
  Kammie Kayl, java.sun.com, June 1, 2001
  Java^TM APIs and architecture technologies for XML form the core of XML support in the Java 2 platform within the Java Technology Web Services Model.

• Building Business-to-Business Applications: It's clear that before even trying to compete in the emerging B2B marketplace, enterprises must be ready with a flexible, scalable, highly available dot-com architecture. This document will explain how Java^TM technology and XML are enabling Internet commerce to grow at a rate that amazes even veteran Web-watchers.
  
  
• Co-stars in Networking: XML and Java^TM Technologies: By now, virtually all of the major players in Internet technologies have made commitments to XML technology. This feature article, by John Byous, tells how Sun is combining XML with Java technologies to create a complete, platform-independent, Web-based computing environment.
  
  
• XML and Java Technology Q&A: David Brownell, designer of Sun's Java Project X, answers a series of questions about XML and Java technology in this wide-ranging interview.
  
  
• XML and HTML: What's the difference? "XML arose from the recognition that key components of the original web infrastructure -- HTML tagging, simple hypertext linking, and hardcoded presentation -- would not scale up to meet the future needs of the web," Sun's Jon Bosak explains in this article. Although XML markup looks a bit like HTML, he adds, XML is a much more powerful beast.
• XML at Misawa Homes Co. Ltd.: How a Japanese home designer uses XML and Java technology together to create an open, flexible system for home design presentations.
• XML: Mastering Information on the Web: This is first in a series of articles written by Todd Freter of Sun about XML, its promises, and its challenges. Topics addressed in this article include the shortcomings of HTML; XML's goals for the Internet; and some observations on how a transition to XML may occur.
• Beyond Text and Graphics: XML makes Web pages function like applications: Sun exec Todd Freter's second XML article was an inside view of a major XML Conference held in Seattle in March 1998, sponsored by GCA (Graphic Communications of America). "Because of XML's potential effect on the Internet," Freter reported, "the strongest interest shown at the conference 1998 was in the technology of XML itself."
• XML: It's the Future of HTML: Now that XML has burst on the scene, will it spell the death of HTML? The answer is no; HTML has an important role to play in the brave new world of XML. But what is that role? In this article, Todd Freter presents some possible answers to that question.
• XML: Document and Information Management: XML markup provides metadata for all components of a document, not merely the object that contains the document itself. This makes the pieces of information that constitute a document just as manageable as the fields of a record in a database. This last article by Todd Freter tells how XML's focus on information rather than documents is likely to affect document and information management.
• Managing Names and Ontologies: An XML Registry and Repository: Adoption of XML by a host of industry partners has created a wealth of opportunity for information reuse and distributed network computing over the Web. But XML resources are not nearly as discoverable and reusable as they deserve to be. This article, by Robin Cover of OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), summarizes several kinds of challenges to interoperability in an XML environment and offers some observations on how such challenges can be met.

News Published in Periodicals

• XML and the Second-Generation Web (Scientific American, May 1999): The combination of hypertext and a global Internet started a revolution. In this article, Jon Bosak and Tim Bray tell how a new ingredient, XML, is poised to finish the job.

[ This page was updated: 29-Jun-01 ]