Intel™ XML Software Suite
Intel has released a proprietary XML software suit for high performance demanding applications [1]. The target audience is developers of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) systems. This includes the popular WebService architecture in Web3.0, but not limited to. XML is a ubiquitous data format famous of its flexible and intuitive format. The main disadvantage of it has been related to speed/performance issues. Often proprietary binary file formats were preferred to the slow XML alternative. One such subtle example is the heavy reliance on binary formats in Game Engines design. Speed is usually of greater concern compared to flexibility. Yet the industry adoption, e.g. from Sony™ Corporation, and the COLLADA™ has boosted the acceptance of XML among game developers. COLLADA[2] is a XML based 3D media file format, and the native resource asset file format used in Playstation3!
The Intel XML Suite SDK is available for both C++ and Java. It takes advantage of the latest Intel multi-core family of processors and multi-threaded parallel processing. It seems a promising suite with highly anticipated set of features. It might prove to be a seamless integration solution for wide range of heavy XML processing applications. Only time will show.
Main features include:
- Outstanding XML processing performance
- Comprehensive XML processing functionality
- Large XML file processing capacity
- Standards compliant
- High conformance
- Efficient memory management
- Thread-Safe
Link[1]: Intel XML Suit
Link[2]: COLLADA 3D media file format
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