As companies gradually add more and more Web services to their networks, one growing challenge will be discovering, managing and troubleshooting those services.
If a service-oriented enterprise architecture can build an IT model of your business data and practices, then you can optimize those business processes. That''s where the money is.
The eBay Developers Conference will be held June 21-22 at the Fairmont San Jose Hotel, followed by eBay Live! June 23-25. eBay plans to introduce a unified API schema that will support software development across all platforms and languages. The schema, called eBay Web Services, supports development in XML, SOAP, .NET and Java, as well as eBay’s software development kits for Java and Windows.
Use the built-in functionality of SQL Server to make your business processes more efficient with data mining.
True Web services collaboration within the framework of a service-oriented architecture is as tantalizing as an oasis in the desert, but without standards, it's still only a mirage.
Web services are supposed to work together to make life easier. Yet they only work well together if they're designed properly. WebLayers in Cambridge, Mass., has introduced an enterprise software tool to aid in effective governance of XML, Web services and SOA to ensure interoperability.
Enterprises are increasingly turning to service oriented architectures (SOAs), both to exploit SOA's potential for eliminating redundancies and accelerating project delivery though the consolidation and reuse of Web services, and as a means of streamlining business processes among departments and organizations.
Ari Bixhorn discusses Microsoft's plan to create a unified programming model (code-named Indigo) for building distributed, interconnected apps in an interview with VSM Editor in Chief Patrick Meader.
There's a lot of information available out there via Web services these days.
Now - how do you make that information available to business users? StrikeIron
has the best answer to that question that I've seen so far.
Because the importance of identity has been elevated across the board, Liberty Alliance, a global consortium for open federated identity standards and identity-based Web services, has released ID-WSF 2.0, the second version of its Web services framework specifications.
Why is it that some people want us to spend our lives grubbing around in the
intricacies of XML policy files? I don't know, but I don't especially like it.
A new version of Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), the often forgotten XML standard for Web services, won approval from OASIS, the Boston-based standard consortium, according to an announcement today.
Sunopsis has upgraded its ELT offering to cover a variety of ways for different
applications to communicate, from service oriented to batch data movement. If
you're trying to piece together a patchwork of applications, their integrated
solution could be an attractive way to go.
If you wanted to design a language for high-speed processing and transactions, you could probably do better than XML. But the question is: Could a new format or standard achieve the widespread popularity of XML?