SUN MICROSYSTEMS RELEASES FREE XSLT COMPILER TO DEVELOPER COMMUNITYSUN MICROSYSTEMS RELEASES FREE XSLT COMPILER TO DEVELOPER COMMUNITYNew Technology Will Enable Faster, More Efficient E-commerce Based on XML and Java TechnologyNEW YORK CITY, NY - XML DevCon Conference - June 26, 2000 - Sun today announced the free availability of an early access version of its XSLT Compiler technology, downloadable later this week at www.sun.com/xml. This new technology, developed by Sun's XML Technology Center, will greatly improve application communication between XML schemas and significantly speed up transformation of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) files. XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) is becoming an extremely popular technology to support business-to-business integration and device-based Web access. Because of its unique use of the Java platform for actual code translation, Sun's new XSLT Compiler performs better and requires less memory than existing XSLT processors. Sun also plans to donate the XSLT Compiler to the Apache Software Foundation. Along with the Java platform's portable code, XML is quickly becoming a key infrastructure element for e-commerce applications because of its ability to deliver portable data. Currently, industry groups are developing XML vocabularies, or schemas, for standard business-to-business communication. These consensus-based schemas will enable clear and easy XML data transfer between companies. Yet even with these XML schemas, applications at individual companies need to receive data in a specific format that is usually different from the industry schema. XSLT transforms documents into the different formats required by applications. As businesses begin to rely more and more upon business-to-business communications, the need for fast, efficient XML data transformations will become even more critical. Sun's XSLT Compiler provides a fast, efficient means of performing these conversions. In addition to business-to-business integration, XSLT is also commonly used to allow a Web site to support a variety of Internet access devices, such as desktops, pagers, phones, and PDAs. A single XML document can be transformed into any number of display formats to support the different screens and capabilities of these devices. Some of these devices have limited memory and processing capabilities. The small footprint of Sun's XSLT Compiler enables client processing and transformations of XML data even on these small devices. "The XSLT Compiler is a boon for application developers and XML users who are increasingly faced with cumbersome and slow XML data transformations with existing products," said Bill Smith, engineering manager of Sun's XML Technology Center. "With Sun's XSLT Compiler, developers can quickly convert XML files using a fast, lean Java technology-based program that doesn't waste server resources. Furthermore, since the output of the compiler is so small, developers can now perform transformations on small devices that before now had no ability to transform an XML file. These improvements will further drive new market opportunities for application developers using Java technology and XML." The XSLT Compiler: Continuing the Synergy Between the Java Platform and XMLSun's XSLT Compiler is based upon de facto industry standards: XML and the Java platform. The W3C standard for defining how a class of XML documents can be transformed or formatted is called XSL, or eXtensible Style Language. XSLT is a subset of XSL that is devoted only to document transformations and is a critical component of any XML based application. Sun's XSLT Compiler, built on the Java 2 platform, creates a Java program that performs the transformation instructions described by the XSLT file associated with a set of XML files. The output of the XSLT Compiler is a pre-compiled Java program, called a "translet", which transforms the XML file into the desired data format. The translet program uses only those XSLT instructions that are relevant to the desired transformation instead of the entire XSLT specification. Because of this programming approach, Sun's XSLT Compiler gives significant performance advantages to XML application developers through innovative use of Java technology.On the server side, this new model drastically reduces the system overhead associated with the transformation of an XML document and results in dramatically improved scalability for document transformations. Furthermore, the small and compact size of the XSLT Compiler's Java technology-based translet program enables transformations on small devices, which will open up new usage models for XML technology and XML transformations in general. Sun and XML: Technology Delivery and Support for Open StandardsEngineers at Sun helped to create XML, and the company continues to demonstrate its leadership and support for this technology through the development of several API for the Java platform, including the Java API for XML Parsing, which is now available through the Apache Software Foundation, the forthcoming Java-XML databindings, and the Java API for XML Messaging, which is just beginning development through the Java Community Process program.About Sun Microsystems, Inc.Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision - The Network Is The Computer - has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to dot-com their businesses. With $14.2 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com.
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