This presentation proposes to focus on the specific problems and experiences associated with using XML in the harvesting and delivery of news on the web. Where XML-RPC or SOAP fits in. Defining a taxonomy for news. Making news content part of a larger distributed application. This presentation will describe how Hotbot is being redesigned to take advantage of a new middle tier, being written in Java, that will deliver search results in XML over HTTP to the Hotbot front-end page servers.
Banks are in the business of packaging and transferring risk.
An essential step in that business is measuring risk in an accurate and timely manner, across diverse trading systems, across business lines and, increasingly, beyond national boundaries. A common approach is to attempt to data-warehouse trade information and then apply risk measurements techniques. This data-centric view of computing, although found in a great majority of institutions, is at best an impediment to the development of the business, and at worst architecturally unsound. Firstly, collating trade data centrally in a timely and accurate manner is, although possible through the advances in modern technology, very expensive and usually a cause of major turbulence in the organisations. More importantly, the data-centric approach almost always becomes a bottleneck in business growth.