Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:24:27 -0500 From: Dan Jacobs Subject: WebTech Tues 1/18 7pm IBM Waltham - XML Transformations Hi all. Our first meeting of the new year will be held on Tuesday, January 18, 7:00pm, at the IBM SPC in Waltham. Details and directions will be on the website at http://www.acm.org/chapters/webtech soon. Our featured presentation will be given by Mark Colan, who many of you have had the pleasure to see before. Mark's presentation will be on XML Transformations. More details below. I'd like to invite everyone to join us for dinner at the Green Papaya restaurant before the meeting, ordering at around 5:30. With any luck, Mark can join us too. He also happens to be an expert in Thai cuisine! Hope to see you there. This is a sure to be a terrific talk! There will be a meeting of the NEJUG on Thursday, 1/20 on JRun. Details about that meeting can be found at http://www.nejug.org/2000/jan00.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT XML Transformations: The Key to Success in eBusiness Solutions Mark Colan, IBM Corporation Does the growing number of XML vocabularies represent industry fragmentation that will subvert the XML standard? If your company customizes its XML information to its internal needs, can it still participate in business-to-business applications using standard vocabularies? This talk will discuss the growing importance of XML Transformations, introduce XSL programming and tools, and present the architecture of real-world eBusiness solutions using XML and XSL. About the speaker: Mark Colan is an XML Technologist for IBM Corporation. He is also well known as the Lead Architect for the InfoBus technology (a Java Standard Extension). With over 20 years experience in designing and implementing commercial software products and technologies, Mark is well versed in component software strategies, operating systems, and software tools. Mark has spoken at several leading Java and XML industry conferences and events, including JavaOne '98 and '99, the Java Developers' Kitchen series in 1998, the Colorado Software Summit in 1998, and XML '99. ------------------------------ Dan Jacobs, President Tech Tonic Netsystems email: djacobs@ttonic.com Burlington, MA voice: (781) 273-5825, (781) 273-0231 Java Consulting fax: (781) 273-5825 Object-Oriented Software Engineering Chairman Boston ACM WebTech Group: http://www.acm.org/chapters/webtech