A few tidbits of news: VMware launches a new product for secure provisioning of
computers outside the enterprise, StrikeIron adds to its stable of Web services,
NS-BASIC moves to the desktop.
Our favorite security guru, Gary McGraw, has said it so often that it's almost a cliche: If you want secure systems, you've got to build security into the applications that run on them. A Rocklin, Calif.-based startup called Kenai Systems is now applying that maxim to Web services with what the company's founders believe are category-creating tools for developers.
Three IT industry heavyweights, Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi, and NEC Corp., are releasing Reliable Messaging for Grid Services (RM4GS), an open-source implementation of the Web Services Reliability (WS-Reliability) standard.
Learn to build a robust, flexible, and secure Web services architecture that leverages the .NET Framework''s existing capabilities and handles security as a crosscutting concern.
For businesses that want J2EE Web applications without going through the development lifecycle, Akamai Technologies this week announced the availability of on-demand Web applications.
A group of technology vendors that includes AMD, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, last week published a new Web services specification designed to simplify network administration across a range of devices. Dubbed Web Services Management (WS-M), the spec describes how to use Web services as a remote management access protocol.
Defining what a service is, is a waste of time. The technology that dominates defines the service.
The concept of providing businesses with compute pools of network-attached processing power is the brainchild of Azul Systems, a Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up.
The latest round of Mindreef's Web services tool has an absolutely killer feature: the ability to package and share a debugging session with any other user.
Web services spefications have proliferated like rabbits over the last couple of
years. Most developers should just ignore the whole mess for the time being.
"ASP.NET Cookbook" by Geoffrey LeBlond and Michael Kittel is aimed at programmers who want a quick way to create dynamic, data-driven Web sites with Active Server Pages running on Microsoft Web servers.
Seeking to position itself at the top of the heap among vendors in the emerging market for SOA management software, Digital Evolution, announced this week that it has acquired Flamenco Networks.
The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) announced the publication of three new profiles. The long-awaited promotion of Basic Profile 1.1, Attachments Profile 1.0 and Simple SOAP Binding Profile 1.0 to "Final Material" status marks the start of work on testing tools and sample applications for those profiles.
Keith Brophy, CTO at Robertson Research Institute, Saginaw, Mich., has been working on a Web services application whose objective has special relevance -- saving lives.
We are at the stage now where Web services war stories should be available. A close look shows this new technology catching on.