Gordon van Huizen has designed and developed solutions for Web site generation and distributed electronic forms systems, network-based object licensing and real-time data merging and imaging. As director of product strategy for Progress Software, he has been responsible for systems engineering of Progress' JMS-based messaging server, Progress SonicMQ, and is currently responsible for the definition of the company's next-generation messaging strategies.
XML has become the standard format for B2B data exchange. To actually
implement such exchanges, however, the programmer must provide data transport
and translation services. Java-based messaging provides an ideal transport
for XML. This article explores how to use a Java messaging server as the
infrastructure for exchanging XML data between B2B participants.
XML itself doesn't specify a communications infrastructure. Employing RPC
(remote procedure call) mechanisms to exchange XML data via HTTP - an
approach advocated by some - suffices for rudimentary applications but
doesn't scale for distributed applications across multiple systems, such as
in business-to-business e-commerce. In such systems parties are often
unreachable, yet reliability of communications is crucial.
Take the relatively simple example of communicating price changes. To ensure
that each disconnect... (more)
Gordon van Huizen has designed and developed solutions for Web site generation and distributed electronic forms systems, network-based object licensing and real-time data merging and imaging. As director of product strategy for Progress Software, he has been responsible for systems engineering of Progress' JMS-based messaging server, Progress SonicMQ, and is currently responsible for the definition of the company's next-generation messaging strategies.
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