XML Appliances
March 22, 2010
I worked my way through a run down of XML appliances. The write up was “The Modern XML Appliance: From Acceleration to Integration and into the Cloud.” The focus was dedicated hardware devices that allegedly cope with the size of XML files. XML can be more verbose than documents stored in an application’s native file format. In addition, XML is not * one thing *. There are flavors of XML and within XML documents one can encounter issues. For example, have you heard, “Where’s that referenced entity?”
Years ago, I looked at a then-new method of coping with the numerous problems of Extensible Markup Language. That firm was Rocket XML, I believe. The approach was to implement some of these clean up functions via software. The article I read focused exclusively on expensive gizmos that are often expensive, tricky to configure, and narrow in their functionality. Some of the appliances have limits on XML file size. So what’s the fix? Manual rework or expensive off loading methods are the approach some organizations have to follow.
I did a bit of poking around and found another XML appliance article by the same outfit (IT Business Edge), “XML Appliances Get New Mission: Integrating B2B and the Cloud.” This write ignores:
- Increased interest in putting such functions as XML processing in firmware, not boxes
- The need for restrictive XML in order to deal with variances in files
- The costs of making the jump to the cloud at the present time with the current limitations.
I think the XML appliance sector is an interesting one, but like many specialized niche markets, change is coming, and it will come quickly.
Stephen E Arnold, March 22, 2010
A freebie. No one paid me to write this article. I don’t know to whom in the US government to report a no pay write up about XML. Maybe the Government Printing Office? Baffled am I.
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