This has been a busy month - we launched our DeltaXML Sync product after a successful beta schedule, we've made some improvements to the DeltaXML Core API product, including a precompiled Swing GUI for simple change identification and we were at the XML Europe 2004 conference in Amsterdam, where we presented a paper on using XML change identification and synchronization to simplify translation. More details below.

If you have ideas that you'd like to see explored in this newsletter, or any other suggestions for improvements you'd like to see, we'd love to hear from you. To evaluate DeltaXML Sync please get in touch, free evaluation downloads of the DeltaXML Core API are available at our website: www.deltaxml.com

    - The DeltaXML Team.

Contents

In this newsletter:

• Recent DeltaXML Customers
• DeltaXML Sync API Launched
• Amsterdam in April - XML Europe 2004
• DeltaXML Core API 2.8 Released
• Diary Dates

Customer Focus: Recent DeltaXML Customers

Recent customers include:

• DaimlerChrysler Freightliner (visit) - "North America's leading commercial vehicle manufacturer."
• KPN Contrado (visit) - "Providing solutions for coupling distribution channels to supply chains."
• Arena Solutions Inc. (USA) (visit) - "Providing a centralized environment for managing product data."
• nterra e-stategy & e-solution(Germany) (visit) - "Automating business processes within the enterprise and between partners."
• CSW (UK) (visit) - "A leading provider of solutions for the creation, management and delivery of information using open standards."

DeltaXML is being used for versioning of product models, providing change management for published product definitions, building a documentation control server and enabling synchronization with conflict resolution.

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DeltaXML Sync API Launched

Building on our DeltaXML Core API, the DeltaXML Sync API provides a straightforward programmatic interface for synchronizing XML. Available now for the Java™ platform, this product adds generic XML synchronization - three-way structured merge - to the DeltaXML toolset. DeltaXML products now provide the engines for

• XML change identification
• XML change processing
• XML change synchronization

With DeltaXML Sync API, you can now build solutions for XML workflow, where multiple edits to a document require resolution; for software distribution, where updates to a configuration file must be synchronized with customer changes; for database synchronization, between central and remote data stores; for SVG graphics manipulation; and many other previously intractable problems.

The technology within this product has been in production use by "early access" customers for some months, and although this is the first public release DeltaXML Sync is now well-tested and ready for serious implementations.

Please reply to this email if you'd like a white paper on this technology, examining the challenges and explaining the benefits of generic synchronization. If you'd prefer a more technical route please get in touch to request an evaluation copy of the product.

 Weblink:
http://www.deltaxml.com/sync/ - DeltaXML Sync API product page.
 http://www.deltaxml.com/svg/ - SVG "tiger" demo, a visual explanation of "variant management" and "change propagation".

Amsterdam in April - XML Europe 2004

The XML Europe conference this year was set in the fine city of Amsterdam, and carried the byline "Documenting the Future". There were interesting technical presentations, excellent keynote speeches, product launches and networking sessions. We presented the R&D we've been working on in the "language translation" arena, using the Unified Delta technology we announced last December to provide a lightweight "translation memory" solution within the context of a single document. Other talks well worth attending were from Steven Noels on Cocoon and from Elliotte Rusty Harold on SAX conformance testing. You'll find a discussion of some  (largely technical) presentations on Elliotte Rusty Harold's site, Cafe Con Leche - referenced in the blog by Edd Dumbill, the conference organizer.

Weblinks:
http://www.xmleurope.com/ - XML Europe 2004, including schedules and abstracts.
http://www.idealliance.org/papers/dx_xmle04/papers/03-03-01/03-03-01.html - "Beyond Babel - Simplifying Translation with XML" (DeltaXML).
http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/contents/2004/04/23-xmleu/read - Edd Dumbill's blog on Amsterdam.

DeltaXML Core API 2.8 Released

The latest release of DeltaXML Core API includes a precompiled version of an updated Swing application for displaying XML differences. Unpack the evaluation, double-click "deltawing.jar" and choose your documents. The DeltaWing application is intended to show how easily change identification can be included within your products and solutions - we also have other sample code, please ask us for details.

Other improvements in 2.8 include improved error reporting and an updated tutorial, as well as improvements to kernel code. A full change history is available.

Customers with a standard support contract get free upgrades to this latest edition.

Diary Dates

• Extreme Markup Languages® 2004: 3-6 August 2004, Montreal, Canada, http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/

Weblinks:
DeltaXML News: http://www.deltaxml.com/news/

Please let us know whether this newsletter has been useful to you, we welcome any suggestions about information you'd like discussed in future editions. We'll be back next month with another edition.

© 2004 DeltaXML and Monsell EDM Ltd.