Hugh Grant

Analysts have predicted that by the end of 2003, 80% of interapplication traffic will be XML-based. Furthermore, they predict that such traffic will grow 10 times more quickly than application-to-person traffic. This is being driven by the growing adoption of XML by the business community and the increasing maturity of Web technology around XML transport, routing, and transformation. It's also generally agreed that it's the simple and lightweight nature of XML solutions that fuels their rapid uptake and allows them to be used by a wider developer community than more complex "enterprise" technologies. Basically, XML will democratize Internet software. Not to say that existing technologies will be swept aside in a rush to rebuild the world in XML. Enterprise systems such as J2EE and CORBA provide the environment for building highly scalable, secure, transactional, or ... (more)