Friday, October 25, 2002

Working Draft of Web Ontology Language (OWL) Test Cases Published. 24 October 2002: The first public Working Draft of Web Ontology Language (OWL) Test Cases has been released. The draft illustrates correct OWL usage, the formal meaning of OWL constructs, and resolution of issues considered by the Web Ontology Working Group. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity. (News archive) [The World Wide Web Consortium] 9:38:33 AM      comment []

WSDL validator?. Don Box: Sam and Mark's RSS Validator Rocks!...I just took five minutes to convert my 0.91 feed to 2.0...Perhaps when the first CR goes out for WSDL/1.2, I'll hack one up for WSDL.   Care to collaborate?  Now that would rock. [Sam Ruby] 9:36:14 AM      comment []

The renewed potential of Java on the client Rethinking the Java GUI. Simon Phipps, Sun's chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck. "When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet," he jokes. His point: Java was miscast as a mobile and portable GUI. Its real mission in life was to become a platform for network services. I thought so too, from the moment I created my first servlet five years ago. [Full story at InfoWorld.com.] ... [Jon's Radio] Very interesting article about the renewed potential of Java on the client. Maybe is a play to try here having a richer view of portals: using a rich client to access the portal, having a XML-> Swing layer, for richer interaction. 9:36:03 AM Google It!      comment []