At Microsoft TechEd 2004 in San Diego, Microsoft provided further details on its upcoming database release now known as SQL Server 2005 (formerly code-named “Yukon”). The software will natively support Web services, XML and encryption.
BEA Systems' chief exec Alfred Chuang kicked off the ninth annual eWorld user conference in San Francisco this week by officially rolling out his company's Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy, which is based on BEA's vision of a "fluid enterprise" enabled by a set of products and services collectively dubbed "Liquid Computing."
Grand Central wants to be the switchboard for Service Oriented Architectures - and they just might succeed.
Steve Ballmer discussed the next release of Visual Studio 2005, which will include a
version known as "Team System." The toolset is intended to reach out beyond developers to include more workers involved with the application life cycle.
Microsoft is set to release the 2.0 version of its Web Services Enhancements for .NET. Basically, WSE is an add-on to the Visual Studio .NET dev tool and the .NET
Framework. It is designed to allow developers to write and implement advanced
Web services specifications, such as WS-Security, WS-Routing and WS-Attachments,
by adding a few lines of code to their Web services applications.
The Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization has released the working-group draft of its Basic Security Profile for public comment.
This Web Services firewall now offers WSDL validation for developers, making it a product that both admins and programmers can love.
Providing a case study in the use of XML Web services for internal integration, Jacada Ltd. unveiled a new tool for "fusing" applications during the Gartner Application Integration and Web Service Summit.
Software AG is looking to move deeper into the legacy integration space with its XML Business Integration Portfolio, which the company debuted at the opening of the Gartner Application Integration and Web Service Summit in Los Angeles
Infravio's X-registry offers a federated Web services registry designed to help you build a marketplace for service providers and consumers.
The W3C WS-Choreography Working Group has released the first draft of its Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) 1.0.
Mike Gunderloy reviews RMTrack 2.0 and Cape Clear SOA Editor 4.8
Snapbridge Software, an XML technology start-up based in San Diego County, is seeking to expand on its recent releases of XStudio, a drag-and-drop desktop tool for building XSL transforms; and FDX, its high-speed transformation and fusing engine for pulling together XML and non-XML data. The company said it was set to deliver an IDE -- XStudio Pro -- for developing enterprise XML applications and a platform -- FDX XML Server -- on which to run them.
Web services may not have all the buzz these days, but more and more of them are going into action. For designers who want to start by defining an interface, the Cape Clear SOA Editor packs a lot of power into a free package.