The evangelism for XQuery particular to DataDirect's offering received a boost when it was announced that Jonathon Bruce, formerly with Sun Microsystems, has joined DataDirect to act as their XQuery evangelist. As this press release points out:
Jonathan joins DataDirect from Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he served as the JDBC specification lead and architect for the Java Platform. While at Sun Microsystems, Jonathan led four Java Specification Request efforts and successfully patented technology that now forms an integral part of the latest J2SE and J2EE platforms. Jonathan's background also includes business development, sales support as well as inbound and outbound licensing consulting for the Java platform and database-dependent components of Sun's Java Enterprise System.
This is an obvious boost to DataDirect and XQuery in general. Without a doubt this should be interesting to watch.
As was recently pointed out on doron's blaahg XForms will be receiving a boost from the Mozilla project in the near future when XForms support will be available to Mozilla-based browsers via an XPI installable. This implementation uses the XTF technology which is the eXtensbible Tag Framework that came into existence post Mozilla 1.7. This is yet another big boost to the Mozilla project and will be interesting to see how the developers treat this new found luxury in client-side weblication development.
More to add to this post soon. 'Til then, enjoy!
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