NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MARK GIBBS ON WEB APPLICATIONS 09/01/04 Today's focus: Integrating with the DataPower XI50
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * DataPower's latest: the XI50 * Links related to Web Applications * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Alterpoint Read the latest analyst report on Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) written by EMA's Dennis Drogseth. This report discusses the latest developments in the NCCM market, including an in-depth look at DeviceAuthority Suite, a comprehensive solution for configuring, changing, and controlling today's complex, multi-vendor IT network infrastructures. Download the report today to learn how you can leverage NCCM to reduce the cost and complexity of managing network change. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=78701 _______________________________________________________________ IS SECURITY RIPE FOR OUTSOURCING? Security demands for online applications such as e-commerce and Web services are prompting more corporate customers to hand off security functions - such as intrusion detection and firewalls - to outside service providers. Find out if security should be outsourced in this Network World article: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=78284 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Integrating with the DataPower XI50 By Mark Gibbs We have covered DataPower here in this newsletter a couple of times (see editorial links below), looking at its XA35 XML Accelerator and its XS40 XML Security Gateway. Today, we'll take a quick look at its latest device, the DataPower XI50 Integration Appliance. The XI50 is a diskless appliance-style device that provides "any-to-any" transformations covering a wide range of binary, text and XML formats, including COBOL Copybook, CORBA, CICS, ISO 8583, ASN.1 and EDI. The device also supports lightweight protocol-independent message brokering, integrated message-level security, fine-grained access control, and support for several transport protocols including IBM MQSeries. The XI50 includes visual tools to help business analysts configure format descriptors, mappings and message choreography. DataPower provides something the company calls "Data Oriented Programming" or DOP, which it distinguishes from the "adapter" technology that other vendors use to interface their products to other protocols and XML formats. DataPower's argument is that adapters require reprogramming every time a format changes. According to the company, the DataPower XI50 XML Integration Appliance DOP technology provides a simpler alternative: "For each data format, a single format descriptor can be created using an easy-to-use visual tool, then mappings can be created among different formats. All the information can be stored in metadata text files, eliminating the need for costly coding and recoding. Format changes only require changes to centrally stored text files, greatly simplifying management." This method is certainly flexible, but using data descriptions requires generalized parsing and rewriting on the fly, which usually incurs a significant performance penalty. DataPower claims that its DataGlue technology makes the data description approach practical and involves little or no performance penalty. The DataPower XI50 starts at $50,000. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Speedy XML Network World Web Applications Newsletter, 10/02/02 http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/web/2002/01573954.html An XML firewall and more Network World Web Applications Newsletter, 03/17/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/web/2004/0315web2.html DataPower XI50 Integration Appliance http://www.datapower.com/products/xi50.html Cast Iron device gets security, file handling boost Network World, 08/30/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/083004castiron.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Mark Gibbs Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and he writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We'll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go to <http://www.gibbs.com/mgbio>. 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