Web services security is being built into everything from major Web app development platforms to integration and other software.
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The action is heating up, but it will take a couple of years for security and other management-related standards to gel and make their way into products.
Gartner and Cutter Consortium survey users about their plans to implement Web services.
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Although development around XML and Web services continues to be primarily a software story, hardware, specifically the XML router, has a key role to play, according to Girish Juneja, co-founder of Sarvega Inc., Chicago.
AmberPoint is on a roll. As one of the few real leaders in the Web services management space, according to most of the analysts who cover this arena, the firm recently announced that it is making available a new release of its software.
It is probably too early to say for sure, but it appears that Web services standards are quietly changing the world of development. Web services represent a detente of sorts between two big developer camps -- IBM and Microsoft.
Microsoft’s failed discussions on a merger with SAP AG did not prevent the two companies from trying to knit together .NET and NetWeaver.
XML-based standards being developed by multiple standards bodies, and currently in various iterations and levels of maturity, have become the bane of the Web services developer. However, while acknowledging that "standards bodies are notoriously slow," Gartner analysts believe the situation will improve in the next five years.
Web services remain a "moving target" in the view of Gartner Inc. analysts, but it doesn't stop them from predicting where the technology is going. If you liked the dot-com boom, hold onto your hat. One of the places Web services is going is into new e-commerce applications, which will be "widespread by 2009," predicted David Smith, a Gartner vice president and research fellow.
The Web services sweet spot is still legacy integration because Web services can access data and logic, but performance levels remain an issue.
IT managers see flood of M&A activity as suppliers look for tools that can tackle the full enterprise content management (ECM) life cycle.
Raytheon’s development team uses WRQ’s Verastream to encapsulate host logic and data via Web services.
With the Information Bridge Framework, Microsoft tries to tighten the
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