Night School
Monday Night, May 24, 1999 6:00pm-8:00pm
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XML and Middleware: The Marriage that Makes Sense
This seminar will focus on the emergence of XML and XML Data and the potential chemistry that XML and Message-Oriented Middleware provide. Together, these technologies provide substantial value proposition with the sum being greater than all parts combined. |

Max Dolgicer
Max Dolgicer a leading authority in distributed computing. He is a director of International Systems Group, Inc., a New York-based consulting and training firm. |
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Using XML in Data-Driven Applications: A Project Insight
This presentation discusses: making your objects talk XML, using XML for inter component data exchange, transportation of structured (hierarchical) data in strings across system boundaries, and mapping your object data to a GUI with XSL. |

Mathias Lippert & Erich Nachbar
Mathias Lippert is a Technical Team Leader, using DCOM/XML technology at Cambridge Technology Partners Germany.
Erich Nachbar is a member of SAP's networking division, where he is the XML based component communication and XSL data transformation expert. |
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Beyond DTDs: Current Proposals and the Future of Schema Definition
In this presentation, we'll look at the origins, history, and priorities of the four main proposals to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for alternative ways to describe document structure. |

Bob Ducharme
Bob Ducharme, is the author of XML: The Annotated Specification and SGML CD, a tutorial and users guide to free SGML software, and OPERATING SYSTEMS HANDBOOK. |
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Wednesday Night, May 26, 1999
6:00pm-8:00pm
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Java, XML and DOM Object Models
While Java, XML and DOM work well together, there are also a number of differences in the object models. This talk will explore the similarities and differences between these three technologies. |

David Orchard
David Orchard is a network com-puting architect at IBM's Pacific Develop-ment Centre, does extensive public speak-ing, writing and teaching and is a W3C XML Link standard committee member. |
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XML and EAI
Learn how XML can be used to integrate business applications; what advantages in reliability, implementation speed, and cost savings XML provides; and lessons learned from developing DTDs to support application integration. |

Christopher Kurt
Christopher Kurt, a managing consultant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, is a lead architect for the XML implement-ation project within the Open Applications Group standards consortium. |
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Distributed Object Architectures With XML
This talk will explore the ways XML can be used in distributed object architectures. The focus will be on the architecture and system design levels. Although this will include a very brief review of XML and distributed ORB-based middleware, it is not meant as a primer in either area. |

Henry Balen
Henry Balen is the Director of Tech-nology for Xenotrope Inc. He has been developing distributed object-based systems for 9 years, and is the editor of the forthcoming book, DISTRIBUTED OBJECT ARCHITECTURE WITH CORBA, from SIGS/Cambridge University Press. |
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