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Links to vendors of products for electronic publishing systems designers and builders. The products are published on two pages. Forward to next product page on virtual reality and web technologies

General resources | Haptic devices | 3D graphics, games, digital video and animation | Motion capture

Communications | Compression: audio, image & video | Copyright | DTV (Digital TV incl. HDTV)

DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) | Electronic commerce (E-Commerce) | Electronic publishing and fonts

Ebooks | Document management | Text retrieval, search engines (text, images, and video), indexing

Groupware/Workflow | Image capture | Image (other) | Intelligent agents, data mining | Java

Multimedia and broadcasting | Multimedia & object oriented databases | On-line games | XML/SGML

Security (incl. cryptography) | Speech recognition technologies | Videoconferencing

General resources

OmniTree has launched an upgraded version of its web directory. The section on computing software (look under computer software) uses a tree structure to list suppliers under a number of different classifications.

URL: http://www.omnitree.com/

The IBM Global Software Solutions Guide features 36,000 applications, tools, and services developed by IBM Business Partners. Updated continually, the guide offers several ways to find solutions, through indexes based on technologies, industries, market segments, operating systems, platforms, native languages, and countries.

URL: http://www.ibm.com/software/solutions/isv/

Haptic devices

Sensable Technologies (haptic devices)

3D graphics, games, digital video and animation

Motion capture

The following sites give links to vendors - they are not vendors of motion capture themselves.

Communications

Compression: audio, image, video

Audio

Image

Video

DTV (Digital TV incl. HDTV)

DVD (Digital Versatile Disc)

Electronic commerce (E-Commerce)

Enterprise E-commerce management

Electronic publishing and fonts (general)

Electronic books

Document management

Full-text retrieval, search engines (text, images and video), indexing

Groupware/Workflow

Image capture

Image (other)

Intelligent agents

For a comprehensive listing of research-based agent systems see: The Agent Society
The Argo site has a good downloading page.
@Your Command (Personal Agents)
Agents Technologies (Copernic - search engine navigation)
Agentsoft (assist browsing and searching the Web)
AutoNomy Intelligent Agents
Arial Communications (Secret Agent)
Artificial Life (SmartEngine "intelligent" Internet software robots)
Big Science Company (Chatterbots)
BotSpot
CMU (WebMate - personal agent for Web browsing and searching)
CompassWar
Crystaliz (LogicWare)
e Development (MagnetSearch)
Evolv
FTP Software
First Floor Software (Smart Bookmarks)
Iconovex (AnchorPage, EchoSearch, WebAnchor)
Inktomi (Hotbot)
Intelligent Reasoning Systems offers two systems for downloading: Jam! - a Java-based intelligent agent architecture combining "the best aspects of several leading-edge intelligent agent frameworks, including the Procedural Reasoning System.
Intermute (Sales "bots" for the Web)
JAFMAS Java agent (Java-based Agent Framework for MultiAgent Systems Development and Implementation)
JATLite (free agent platform from the Stanford University CDR, which has now been downloaded by over 1,000 users)
Jazzsoft (IA software for the web)
JavaBots (Java-based software system for mobile robotics research)
KYMA Software (KYMA Atlantis - agent development platform)
Kinetoscope (Via - agent architecture and toolkit)
Mitsubishi (Concordia - mobile agent development environment)
NetSage (Sages - agents for Web-based learning, e-commerce, and employee and customer support)
Neuromedia (Neurostudio - Web chatterbot authoring)
ObjectSpace (Voyager - Java agent development platform)
Syskill & Webert (Web user profiling)
Tympani Development (Net Attache)
Traveling Software (WebEx)
Verity (Search series)
Voyager (agent-based e-commerce)
WebGlimpse (attaches search boxes to HTML pages automatically)
Xilinx (SmartSearch)
Younology (OrbjectWare software agents for matching buyers and sellers)

Java

Development, general

Multimedia and broadcasting - see also Web multimedia

Authoring general

Audio

Video

General

Multimedia & object oriented databases

On-line games

Security

IPR protection

Digital rights management

System security

XML, SGML, and WML publishing tools

Expect the vendors listed above, currently supplying SGML products to also supply XML products, in addition we have listed below some additional products.

There is a site detailing a complete collection of free XML software. The site is updated continuously as new products and versions appear. In addition there is:

information on the developers of the software;
alternative indices which show the featured products sorted by the standards they implement, their names, their vendors or by platform;
a search facility.

URL: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~larsga/linker/XMLtools.html

XML.com has created a central directory for information about XML-based products. The XML.com Buyer's Guide has been created to enable users to research and compare products. It includes: tools for document authoring, web site management, data management and print production.

URL: http://xml.com/pub/buyersguide/

XML database products list

URL: http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLDatabaseProds.htm

Specific XML and WML tools

XPERT (XPath based query language Evaluation and Retrieval Tool - Java software designed to index and retrieve XML documents.
URL: http://www.futurexpert.com/
Sun XSLT Compiler technology download
URL: http://www.sun.com/xml/
XGL Export Kit (XGL is an XML-based file format that attempts to capture all the 3D information rendered by OpenGL)
URL: http://www.realitywave.com/xglexportkit.htm
Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Simple Hypertext DTD
URL: http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/ibtwsh6.dtd
XML Query Engine
URL: http://www.fatdog.com/
Merlot (open-source, Java-based visual XML editor)
URL: http://www.merlotxml.org/
XML database products list Unicorn Formatting Objects (Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) editor)
URL: http://www.unicorn-enterprises.com/
BAport Technologies (FastXML - secure Internet transactions over standard Internet dial-up)
URL: http://www.fastxml.net/
Apache XML Delivery Toolkit (Perl XML processing tools, for delivering XML to clients.
URL: http://xml.sergeant.org/
XMLWriter 0.1 for Java
URL: http://www.megginson.com/Software/
XSV - Edinburgh/W3C schema validator
URL: http://cgi.w3.org/cgi-bin/xmlschema-check
Java Minimal XML parser - will parse Minimal XML (otherwise known as Simplified Markup Language)
URL: http://www.docuverse.com/min/
eXcelon Corporation (Stylus 2.0 - XSL editor)
URL: http://www.exceloncorp.com/
Birdstep (XML-database for PDAs)
URL: http://www.birdstep.com/
X-Tract (an XML transformations tool)
URL: http://www.xmlscript.org/
IBM's WebSphere Transcoding Publisher (dynamically translates HTML or XML to WML)
URL: http://www.ibm.com/software/websphere/transcoding/
STEP UK (X2X, an XLink engine, which allows the creation, management and manipulation of XML-based link information).
URL: http://www.stepuk.com/
XCES (XML version of the Corpus Encoding Standard)
URL: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/XCES/
Rogue Wave Software (XML-DB Link)
URL: http://www.roguewave.com/company/xml-dblinkreg.html
Outside In WML Export (WML filter for reformating business documents)
URL: http://www.inso.com/
Quick 1.1.2 Construct multiple, interconnected object trees, and then express them as separate XML documents.
URL: http://www.jxml.com/download.html
GoSMS.com (Text Internet Parsing - HTML to WML conversion)
URL: http://www.GoSMS.com/
Percussion Software (XSpLit HTML to XML and XSL conversion)
URL: http://www.percussion.com/xsplit/
AscToHTM (converts text to HTML)
URL: http://www.jafsoft.com/asctohtm/index.html
Athens XML Editor V.1
URL: http://www.swiftinc.co.jp/index_en.html
"Schematron" (XML Schemata validation)
URL: http://www.ascc.net/xml/resource/schematron/schematron.html
Promenade Select is a tool to extract information from XML documents to be stored in relational databases.
URL: http://www.pro-solutions.com/demo/select/
Extensibility's XMLschema.com provides facilities for testing XML schemas and converting them to a preferred XML schema dialect.
URL: http://apps.xmlschema.com/
XML For All, software development tools for XML
URL: http://www.xmlforall.com/
AElfred XML parser for running on Palm platform.
URL: http://fujisawa.org/palm/
XML Master (XML processors and editors)
URL: http://www.ibm.com/alphaworks/tech/xmas/
SAX, the Simple API for XML, is a widely implemented, public domain, event-based interface for processing XML documents. The beta release of SAX2/Java is now available for download from the web.
URL: http://www.megginson.com/SAX/SAX2/
X-Tract (XML transformations tool)
URL: http://www.xmlscript.org/
Pyxie is an open source XML processing library for Python
URL: http://www.pyxie.org/
South Wind Design xmlFX DTK is an XML application development toolkit for developers working with C++.
URL: http://www.swdi.com/products.htm
EZ/X suite from Activated Intelligence includes an XML parser and XSL processor written in Java and is available for download from the web.
URL: http://www.activated.com/
Dynamic XML (DXML) 1.1 for Java create, write, and read XML documents as if they were standard Java Beans.
URL: http://www.objectspace.com/
Bluestone's Visual-XML 1.1 (XML application development)
URL: http://www.bluestone.com/
Oracle XML Developer's Kit (XDK) - basic building blocks for reading, manipulating, transforming and viewing XML documents.
URL: http://technet.oracle.com/tech/xml/
4XSLT - XML transformation processor (written in Python) based on the W3C's specification for the XSLT transform language.
URL: http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4XSLT/
XPath - Python implementation of the W3C's XPath language for indicating and selecting XML document components.
URL: http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4XPath/
4DOM - Python library for XML and HTML processing and manipulation using the W3C's Document Object Model for interface.
URL: http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4DOM/
DEDIOUX (Dynamic EDI Objects Using XML) - package of Java classes that parse and build EDI and XML/EDI documents using an XML file as a rules based engine.
URL: http://www.americancoders.com/
XRS (XML Retrieval System), an XML indexing and retrieval engine.
URL: http://dlb2.nlm.nih.gov/~dwshin/xrs.html
GPS - Groves and Property Sets for Python, GPS is an implementation of the groves and property set concepts defined in the HyTime and DSSSL standards.
URL: http://www.infotek.no/~grove/software/gps/index.html
BeyondHTML (tools database for XML)
URL: http://www.BeyondHTML.com/
XML-DBMS (Java packages that can be used to transfer data between XML documents and relational databases)
URL: http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/DVS1/staff/bourret/xmldbms/xmldbms.htm
Breeze Commerce Studio (toolkit for building XML-based business solutions)
URL: http://www.vsi.com/breeze/
IBM has created a Java servlet that runs on their developer web site and that validates XML documents and displays their structure.
URL: http://www.software.ibm.com/developer/features/feat-domit.html
XMLwriter 1.0 (XML editor for the Windows)
URL: http://www.XMLwriter.net/
SVGView (Java program that uses Java 2D and an XML Parser for Java to parse, process, and display SVG files on any XML-enabled web browser)
URL: http://alphaWorks.ibm.com/tech/svgview/
Enhydra 2.1(Java/XML application server and developer tools)
URL: http://www.digitalorigin.com
KBML (Koala Bean Markup Language - serialisation/deserialisation of JavaBeans to/from an XML document)
URL: http://www.inria.fr/koala/kbml/
XMI Toolkit (converts Unified Modeling Language (UML) information between Rational Rose models and XMI-standard XML files)
URL: http://www.ibm.com/alphaworks/tech/xmitoolkit/
XML software tools (listing of eXtensible Markup Language tools)
URL: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~larsga/linker/xmltools/by-standard.html
Some2XML (Perl script to produce well-formed XML documents from text files that already have some structure)
URL: http://www.pault.com
Extensibility (XML Authority schemata authoring and conversion)
URL: http://www.extensibility.com
XML tools from IBM include: XML for C++ provides classes for parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML documents. XML Security Suite offers digital signature, element-wise encryption, and access control. XML Viewer provides views such as source, DTD, and hierarchical structure of XML data.
URL: http://www.ibm.com/software/xml/news/news60.html
Zveno Swish beta version of the non-validating XML Editor.
URL: http://www.zveno.com/zm.cgi/in-products/in-swish/
tmproc (Topic Map processor)
URL: http://www.infotek.no/~grove/software/tmproc/index.html
The World Wide Web Wrapper Factory (translation of HTML pages into XML documents)
URL: http://db.cis.upenn.edu/W4F
The GMD-IPSI XQL engine is a Java based storage and query application for large XML documents.
URL: http://xml.darmstadt.gmd.de/xql/
XML Convert 1.0 converts flat files into XML.
URL: http://www.unidex.com/download.htm
Fujitsu (HyBrick browser supports XML)
URL: http://www.fsc.fujitsu.com/hybrick
"TransformXML" (batch transformations of XML files)
URL: http://www.hypermedic.com/style
TclDOM version 1.6 (language binding for the DOM to the Tcl scripting language)
http://www.zveno.com/zm.cgi/in-tclxml/in-tcldom/
Xeena, (Java XML editor)
URL: http://www.ibm.com/java/news/news241.html
The OpenXML parser
URL: http://www.openxml.org
XML validation tools
URL: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/xml-check.html
URL: http://www.stg.brown.edu/service/xmlvalid/
DTDGenerator Frontend - allows users to upload an XML file from their client computer to the server. The software then gets a DTD to which the uploaded XML document will conform.
URL: http://www.pault.com/Xmltube/dtdgen.html
XML Spy (XML and DTD editor for Windows, being distributed as Shareware)
URL: http://www.xmlspy.com/
Web Distributed Data Exchange (XML-based technology for exchange of structured data between web applications)
URL: http://www.WDDX.org/WhitePaper12_8_98.htm
Bluestone XML-Server and Visual-XML (developer's toolkit)
URL: http://www.bluestone.com
LT XML 1.0 (XML toolkit)
URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/xml/
XML MetaData Object Persistence
URL: XMOP beta http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net/xmop/signup.htm
URL: documentation http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net/documents/xmop.htm
EDI to XML file conversion tool
URL: http://www.redix.com
TexTrans - LATEX to TEX rendered in SGML or XML
URL: http://www.infotype.com
ECMData Automatic retrieval, indexing, and cataloguing of electronic manufacturers datasheets using XML
URL: http://www.marshall.com
For developers working with XML and Oracle databases, some sample PL/SQL-based XML utilities and demos are available on the Oracle XML web site. The utilities are all written in PL/SQL and work in any Oracle7 or Oracle8 database.
URL: http://www.oracle.com/xml/
Language Processing Technology Xpert, and XML document / DTD editor, see: http://langtek.ibase.co.kr
Majix 1.0 from TetraSix, is a freeware RTF to XML converter written in Java
Koala: XML validation service; XSL engine; KOML (Koala Object Markup Language) - provides serialisation/deserialisation on any Java objects in an XML document.
URL: http://www.inria.fr/koala/
URL: http://www.inria.fr/koala/XML/serialization/.
An article published in the May/June 1998 IEEE Internet Computing Journal entitled: "XML-enabled Tools" gives descriptions of the many varied implementations of the standard along with tabulated comparisons between the various tools. Links to the companies and individuals developing the products are extensive.
URL: http://computer.org/internet/
Web site which provides a fund of related and additional information on XML and related technologies.

Audio

Image

Video

E-Commerce Platforms

Secure Online Commerce

Network payment mechanisms & digital cash

Enterprise E-commerce management

Development, general

Multimedia and broadcasting - see also Web multimedia

Authoring general

Audio

Video

General

IPR protection

Digital rights management

System security

Specific XML and WML tools