Venetica Announces Support for Attachment Extension to SOAP 1.1 Standard; VeniceBridge Enables Attachment of Unstructured Content to XML Documents for Collaborative B2B Integration.Business/Technology Editors CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 2001 Venetica Corporation, the leading provider of software solutions e-business content integration, today announced support for the Attachments extension to the Simple Object Access Protocol (protocol) Simple Object Access Protocol - (SOAP) A minimal set of conventions for invoking code using XML over HTTP. DevelopMentor, Microsoft Corporation, and UserLand Software submitted SOAP to the IETF as an internal draft in December 1999. Latest version: SOAP 1. 1.1 (SOAP 1.1) specification. The extension, submitted by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ) members Microsoft, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Hewlett-Packard, webMethods, Commerce One and IONA Technologies IONA Technologies, NASDAQ: IONA, began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin and was founded by Chris Horn, Annrai O'Toole, Colin Newman and Seán Baker.[1][2] IONA maintains headquarter offices in Dublin, Boston and Tokyo. , adds the necessary functionality to transfer binary data--including images of handwritten hand·write tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes To write by hand. [Back-formation from handwritten.] Adj. 1. signatures, blueprints, catalog images and product diagrams--with XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. documents. Venetica's VeniceBridge(TM) provides a single, consistent method to access and exchange disparate content from multiple sources across the extended enterprise. VeniceBridge facilitates collaborative commerce and enterprise content management by enabling content--such as documents and images--to be securely and easily shared with business partners, optimizing e-business initiatives and driving new revenue opportunities. VeniceBridge currently supports the ability to embed binary files, and the related metadata, within the body of an XML document. The new extension to SOAP 1.1 adds a standard for creating and manipulating binary files as attachments to an XML document that is part of an HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. message. Support for this new standard will provide Venetica's customers with increased flexibility in determining how they exchange unstructured content with their business partners. "As a leader in e-business content integration, Venetica evaluates new developments in standards with a critical eye to determine its value to our customer before endorsing them," said Bobby White, vice president of engineering, Venetica Corporation. "Venetica chose to support this extension to SOAP 1.1 because it defines policies for transferring binary file attachments, such as scanned images, which are a rapidly growing segment of enterprise content. By supporting this extension, VeniceBridge provides greater collaboration and access to binary file formats, eliminating manual steps and streamlining B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business processes." SOAP 1.1 uses XML and HTTP to provide a common messaging protocol The rules, formats and functions for exchanging messages between the components of a messaging system. The most widely used messaging protocol is the Internet's Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). to link applications and services anywhere on the Internet. SOAP 1.1 consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing message content and how to process it; a set of encoding rules for expressing application-defined data types; and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses. The SOAP 1.1 specification and the SOAP Messages with Attachments extension combine to create a light-weight protocol for supporting XML documents with related binary files during B2B operations. About Venetica Corporation Venetica is the pioneer and leader in e-Business Content Integration. Venetica's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , VeniceBridge, provides a breakthrough solution to freely access and exchange content across the extended enterprise, regardless of how or where it is stored. Venetica's open, Java-based infrastructure strengthens e-business applications by providing a single point of access to documents, images, reports, product diagrams, audio, video and other content, strengthening collaborative commerce with supporting content and enabling real-time content exchange across the enterprise and beyond to customers and business partners. Venetica also provides applications and tools to facilitate content-driven process automation at leading worldwide enterprises. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Venetica partners with leading software vendors and system integrators in North America and Europe to deliver solutions around the world. For more information, Venetica can be reached at (704) 926-3000 or www.venetica.com. Venetica and VeniceBridge are trademarks of Venetica Corporation. Other trademarks used in this document are properties of their respective owners. |
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