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Authors: | Erik Wilde |
Group: | Communication Systems |
Type: | Inproceedings |
Title: | Protecting Legacy Applications from Unicode |
Year: | 2004 |
Month: | August |
Pub-Key: | wil04m |
Book Titel: | Proceedings of the International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks (ICETE 2004) |
Abstract: | While XML-based Web Service architectures are successfully turning the Web into an infrastructure for cooperating applications, not all problems with respect to interoperability problems have yet been solved. XML-based data exchange has the ability to carry the full Unicode character repertoire, which is approaching 100'000 characters. Many legacy application are being Web-Service-enabled rather than being re-built from scratch, and therefore still have the same limitations. A frequently seen limitation is the inability to handle the full Unicode character repertoire. We describe an architectural approach and a schema language to address this issue. The architectural approach proposes to establish validation as basic Web Service functionality, which should be built into a Web Services architecture rather than applications. Based on this vision of modular an infrastructure-based validation, we propose a schema language for character repertoire validation. Lessons learned from the first implementation and possible improvements of the schema language conclude the paper. |
Location: | Setúbal, Portugal |
Resources: | [BibTeX] |