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Document Engineering
Document Engineering is a term that has been developed to describe the entire technological phenomenon of markup languages and their related technologies. With the advent of the World Wide Web, and its use of HTML, the document-centric approach to loosely-coupled application integration has grown ever more important. Web services are perhaps the latest development in this area, but certainly not the last.
Since the creation of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) more than two decades ago, an increasing emphasis has been placed on open standards as the basis for interoperability. Web services place an even greater emphasis on this trend. One development from within the standards world has been an emphasis on model-driven development for standards. This parallels the same phenomenon within the software industry, and for many of the same reasons. Given a solid model of business processes and data requirements, implementation can be made consistent and complete across any type of syntax or development enviroment. Terms like "syntax-neutral" are commonly associated with standards using a model-driven approach.
Æon is a strong advocate for this approach: open standards and explicit models make the maintenance of applications easier and more cost-effective, and ameliorate the pain of migrating to new technologies. The final word has yet to be written in terms of the document-centric approach to computing, and this is especially true when it comes to the proper use of models in the creation of XML vocabularies. While model-driven data design can be a powerful tool, it can also produce results which are sub-optimized, a frequent failing of UML-driven XML schema or DTD design.
Æon is in the forefront of practitioners in the field of Document Engineering, and can bring the latest and best techniques to bear on your technology problems.
One of the places where Document Engineering is taken seriously is at the Berkeley Center for Document Engineering. Æon consultants are occasional guest lecturers at the Center, and remain in close contact with its leading lights.