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this morning i find myself pondering one of the more subtle coincidences of my daily life: this month my company, altova, launched not only a formal standards-based xml certification exam, but also new training classes for our first systems integration-oriented tool, mapforce. beyond the blatant plug for my teams work, why is the proximity of these two very different educational efforts interesting? well, on one hand the new xmlspy certification is mainly about the nitty-gritty details of the core xml standards and less about altovas tools or the sexier new xml dialects like soap. on the other hand, our customers are clearly becoming interested, like much of the rest of the xml world, in looking at systems integration issues that treat xml processing like grimy plumbing between shiny bits of binary code.
ok, that may be overselling the point somewhat. however, the misguided attitude that xml is merely a simple, even trivial, markup language is not uncommon. as one example, a recent interview with sun microsystems victoria livschitz characterized the current industry enthusiasm for xml as a "setback" that "will be haunting our industry for decades" (the next move in programming: a conversation with suns victoria livschitz: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalarticles/intervie... 下一页