Janus Boye is currently working as Managing Systems Engineer at Open Market GmbH in Frankfurt. Open Market recently acquired FutureTense to create a solution that combines Internet commerce and content in a unique solution based entirely on Java and XML. Open Market is a member of the W3C XML initiative, and both Open Market and FutureTense have used XML in their products since 1997. Lately Janus has been heavily focused on the new XML-based standards, especially SMIL, SVG and MathML. Technical notes on what these great technologies have to offer has been written (see http://www.irt.org), the first implementations have been tried out, and now Janus is on the look for real-world solutions that uses them. Prior joining Open Market, Janus worked with an American Internet consulting company called Proxicom.
This presentation will cover how XML (Extensible Markup Language) is the driving force for numerous emerging standards, that will have an enourmous impact on the shape of the Web. The presentation will gave examples of these, cover how XML and Java is an extreme combination, and finally give real-world examples of where XML can be of use today.