|
Why XMLTP?
During the evolution of the Internet, various technologies have emerged, and none have affected society more than HTML. HTML brought imagination to technology by standardizing a format for interactive documents, which had never existed on such a wide diversity of computer platforms. The W3 has provided the framework and specification for XML and now the opportunity to take that standard and further develop its capabilities exists. XMLTP.Org has been organized to take that opportunity and create a free platform for the communication and processing of XML data.
The premise is to create XMLTP, or XML Transfer Protocol. The definition of such a protocol would allow for the development of standard server and client interactions. By developing a common distribution of a XMLTP server daemon, or XMLTPD, programmers and system administrators can provide a common gateway for application data. In developing a communications framework for XML data the XMLTP organization hopes to directly establish the following:
- Platform independent communication of XML data.
- A multi-platform distribution of an XMLTP server daemon.
- A multi-platform API and library set for XMLTP clients.
By providing these components, it is our hope that, by using this communications infrastructure, we can ease the development cycle for client/server applications. A few possible applications for XMLTP are:
- Client/Server database applications.
- Distributed data processing.
- An interface to web based applications.
- Data distribution to data warehousing centers.
- Real Time Messaging
- Remote Proceedure Calls for distributed applications
- Business To Business Data Processing
By building the XMLTP daemon to accept modular add-ins, its functionality truly becomes as limited as the imagination of the countless developers on the net today. For more information, or to contribute, send email to: gmr@xmltp.org.
Revised: 2/4/00
-
|
