W3C Web Services Workshop
11-12 April, 2001
HiT Software, Inc.
4020 Moorpark Avenue, Suite 100
San Jose, CA 95117 – USA
HiT
Software is an independent software vendor that provides standards-based SQL database
access middleware for IBM DB2 DBMS. Recently, leveraging on its data access
experience, HiT Software has released software to seamlessly integrate XML and
DBMS.
In
its current release, this software is meant to bridge XML and DBMS within the
boundaries of a firewall or inside a virtual private network. Indeed, such
integration is achieved using standard drivers that rely on private transport
data protocols. In most instances such drivers connect to DBMS using private
ports that are not enabled for Internet access.
At
HiT Software, we believe that integrating XML and DBMS over the Internet will
be the natural transition for middleware software and we are in the process of
making Web Services of our current middleware software.
The
process of developing Web Services to provide seamless integration between XML
and DBMS presents numeroues challenges. Here are just a few:
-
remote configuration and management of
data sources
- client software generation based on server data sources
- definition of efficient and effective client-side APIs
- data-caching
I am looking forward to participating at the W3C Web Services Workshop to be an active participant and to improve our understanding of this fascinating new technology.