New to XML Development.

[Nic Merriman]

Alan,

You could try looking at
http://www.microsoft.com/industry/finserv/initiatives/windowsdnafs/
DNAfs is a initiative driven by the major players in the banking industry to
define as standard set of business schemas in XML for messaging between
financial applications and components. DNAfs, at a basic level, defines a
common business message set plus a standard set of interfaces that consume
those messages. This will facilitate 'plug and play' between application
components. It is hoped that vendors will adopt DNAfs and 'wrap' existing
components with DNAfs interfaces to move this forward. The message set is
based on OFX and Gold, it is called IFX, the Interactive Financial Exchange,
as is based entirely on XML. See http://www.ifxforum.org/ for more details.

DNAfs itself sits under the BizTalk umbrella. The BizTalk framework is an
open imitative, started by Microsoft and supported by a wide range of
organizations, from technology vendors like SAP and CommerceOne to
technology users like Boeing and BP/Amoco. BizTalk is not a standards body
it is a community of standards users, with the goal of driving the rapid,
consistent adoption of XML to enable electronic commerce and application
integration. It designed to facilitate application integration in a loosely
coupled environment via the use of XML, and adoption of industry standards
where appropriate(as in the case of financial services). For more
information on this see www.biztalk.org. As part of this Microsoft have
released piece of software, not a product, that is free to download that
will assist in the development of applications that use the BizTalk
framework. This is called the BizTalk Jumpstart kit, see
http://www.biztalk.org/Resources/tools.asp

Finally if you are NEW to XML a great place to start is
http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/default.asp

Regards

Nic

Nic Merriman
Technical Evangelist
Financial Services - Business Solutions Group EMEA

email. nicmerr at microsoft.com





-----Original Message-----
From: AlanM [mailto:AlanM at SYNECTICS.Soft.net]
Sent: 08 October 1999 6:09
To: xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Subject: New to XML Development.


Hello.
I am new to xml development.
My application revolves round financial transactions,
How do u suggest I start.
Alan

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