Marriott Copley Place
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
3-5 December 2007

Where are XML authoring tools today, where are they going, and what do we want?

Mark Jacobson (Really Strategies, Inc.), Charlton Barreto (Adobe Systems Ltd), Jeff Deskins (JustSystems), Laurens van den Oever (Xopus BV)

14:00 Monday, 2007-12-03

XML Documents and Publishing Arlington

Chair: Eliot Kimber (Really Strategies, Inc.)

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Things sure have changed since 1988 when Author/Editor appeared on the market as the world’s first specialized SGML editing application. In this panel we round-up current XML authoring tools and discuss their evolving functionality and features. Come hear representatives from vendors and let them know what users really want.

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Mark Jacobson

Really Strategies, Inc.

Charlton Barreto

Adobe Systems Ltd

Charlton Barreto, Ph.D., has developed enterprise product architectures for Lawrence Livermore National Labs, UnifAce, Illustra/Informix, Visigenic/Borland, webMethods and Adobe, and has done related work in OASIS, W3C, the Java Community Process, OMG, and the IEEE. Charlton gained a Ph.D. from Columbia University. As a Senior Computer Scientist and Architect at Adobe, he concentrates on LiveCycle, Adobe’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform. LiveCycle He is a co-author of the WS-BPEL, WS-Choreography, WSDL 2 and Java Enterprise Edition, and has been a contributor to the SOA Reference Model, WS-Transaction, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Policy specifications. He writes and presents regularly on Web and SOA technologies.

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Jeff Deskins

JustSystems

Jeffrey Deskins is a Principal Consultant with JustSystems in their Solutions Consulting practice. Jeff has nearly 20 years experience in information development technology. He joined us from Iditarod Systems, where he was an Information and Solutions Architect. While there Jeff was instrumental in the implementation of S1000D for the Boeing 787 – the first use of S1000D for civilian aircraft. Before Iditarod Jeff was a Principal Consultant and Solutions Architect developing enterprise publishing solutions in various vertical industries (Aerospace, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Automotive, and manufacturing). Previously Jeff worked in a variety of information development roles for Bombardier, McDonnell Douglas, and Rockwell International both as a technical writer and SGML analyst.

Jeff has contributed to the development of international standards including S1000D & ATA working groups and OASIS DITA Learning and Training SC along with PLCS. He is a frequent speaker and on the board of directors at his local STC chapter in California.