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Justgoogled DataPower, out of curiosity, and I found XML Accelerator XA35. I did not know there is HARDWARE for XML PROCESSING! Blows my mind.
by cntlzw 7y ago
Justgoogled DataPower, out of curiosity, and I found XML Accelerator XA35. I did not know there is HARDWARE for XML PROCESSING! Blows my mind.
- diskotek 7y agoYep, back in the SOAP days we used to have a lot of XML flying around that would need to be converted into one format or another via XSLT. You can certainly run XSLT on a piece of XML in your own code, but having a dedicated piece of hardware do it for you with a slick GUI was always an easy sell for IBM to management.
- cntlzw 7y agoCould you elaborate? I am really curious how this hardware worked. Was it a HTML Gui with file upload and everything? Or just some server, port and proprietary protocol? Maybe these things are on Ebay for cheap. Oh, that looks like fun.
- lioeters 7y agoImpressed to learn about this hardware for XML processing. I came across an old article that mentioned the price started at $55K!