System Architecture

A good starting place for finding out about RSS

A viewpoint from HP on what the architects role is.

HP Architecture Overview

Another article fron IBM developerWorks. Describes some of the problems with industry XML standards. Also gives some hints on the problems whcih could arrive when trying to use standards for unified XML messaging in, for instance, an EAI based architecture or SOA.

Business Integration -- Information Conformance Statements (BI-ICS)

A survey of XML standards: Part 1

This article in IBM's developerWorks gives a brief explanation and lots of links. Part one covers the "core standards". I'm hoping that Part 2 covers some of the business related standards.

Search Engine and HITS algorithm

Just found this search engine which is based on the HITS algorithm. It seems to work.

Teoma - Search with Authority

Using REST for web services

Just received this newletter from IBM developer works in which the author talks about using the REST approach to web sevices and how WDSL can be used to support this:

Tip: Use XML directly over HTTP for Web services (where appropriate)

XML-Java binding tool from Apache.

"The idea is that you can take advantage the richness and features of XML and XML Schema and have these features mapped as naturally as possible to the equivalent Java language and typing constructs. XMLBeans uses XML Schema to compile Java interfaces and classes that you can then use to access and modify XML instance data."

The project currently in the "incubation " phase. Looks interesting and I'll try to follow it.