David White

The incredible growth of B2B e-commerce and the increasing demand for content management applications to complement online business initiatives are creating tremendous opportunities for developers. GartnerGroup is predicting that B2B e-commerce will grow to $7.29 trillion by 2004 and that 80% of application-to-application traffic passing over public networks will be in XML by 2003. While many online businesses now recognize the need for content management to complement e-commerce programs, several crucial aspects need to be considered in order to provide an effective XML-based application. XML and E-Commerce Why e-commerce needs XML XML has the unique ability to represent any kind of data, including document information, configuration files, and transaction and accounting data. As a result, it's regarded by hundreds of leading software developers as the lingua franc... (more)