The federal departments of Homeland Security and Justice recently agreed on a global data-sharing standard that could spur interoperability throughout the public safety community and beyond. The move ...

Last week, officials from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a partnership to explore future development of a Global Extensible Markup Language ...

Six states will receive Justice Department funding for pilot projects aimed at improving their information-sharing systems. The National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices announced ...

Let’s face it; XML by itself is just another data format that is annoying to access from your Java programs. Don’t get me wrong; I appreciate XML for its portability, its separation of data and ...

Virtual filesystems can be made into writable virtual office documents. The old UNIX slogan “everything is a file” together with the xsltfs:// virtual filesystem allows for transparently editing ...

The basic tenet of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is to provide loose-coupling for different applications. It is thus imperative that data is produced by and for these applications, and that ...