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Learn about the tools of the trade for globalizing eBusiness with Unicode and XML. Discover how these technologies can help increase revenue, reach worldwide markets, lower software costs, and simplify development and deployment. Explore the benefits of globalized software, the power of Unicode for text processing, the role of XML in data exchange and web services, and the contributions of IBM in promoting open standards.
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Globalizing eBusiness Tools of the Trade: Unicode and XML Markus W. Scherer IBM Cupertino Globalizing eBusiness – SDForum Unicode and XML
Globalization – Why? • Increase revenue • Reach worldwide markets • Time to market • Lower software costs • Simpler development & deployment • Interoperate with global Internet infrastructure • Build on globalized standard tools Globalizing eBusiness – SDForum Unicode and XML
Globalized Software • Works with text data in all languages • Localizable into any language • Based on globalized technologies • Single Executable • Web server: Single machine serving requests from anywhere simultaneously Globalizing eBusiness – SDForum Unicode and XML
Text in all languages Unicode/ISO 10646 … Globalizing eBusiness – SDForum Unicode and XML
Unicode (II) • Industry standard encoding • Widely supported • Java, Windows, Internet, HTML & XML, email, … • Simple encoding • But text processing can still be complex • Use libraries (e.g. ICU) Globalizing eBusiness – SDForum Unicode and XML
XML • Text format for data exchange • Unicode-based • Specifies structured data • Parsers & tools from many sources • Base for many new services • “Plumbing” Globalizing eBusiness – SDForum Unicode and XML
Web Services • Goal: Software can autonomously find, acquire, use a wide range of services • XML-based web services • Register & find service – e.g. UDDI • Like Yellow Pages • Use service – e.g. SOAP • Microsoft, IBM, Ariba and others Globalizing eBusiness – SDForum Unicode and XML
IBM & eBusiness • Promotes and contributes to open standards • Standards-based solutions • Open-source XML parser (Xerces) • Open-source Unicode library (ICU) Globalizing eBusiness – SDForum Unicode and XML