In an industry with no shortage of acronyms, Gartner is touting a new one, SOBA, or Service-Oriented Business Applications.
SAP has moved in recent years to improve the flexibility of its integration architecture. Its most recent step was to launch the NetWeaver integration platform infrastructure.
The Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization has lent a hand to Web services architects and developers looking for security solutions with the release of a new report that identifies potential threats and outlines countermeasures based on common scenarios.
JBuilder, the Java IDE from Borland Software Corp., was used to develop the Collaborative Information Portal (CIP) that is handling data downloads from the Mars Exploration Rover mission.
When the company first built the Zipcar.com site in 2000, developers used map programs that were available for free on the Web, explained Roy Russell, vice president of technology for Zipcar.In 2003, the company decided to redo its Web site and Russell looked for a map application that would integrate better.
Asked for a State of Java 2004 perspective, Jamie Thomas, IBM vice president of development for the WebSphere Application Server unit, said 2004 will be the year Java standards allow J2EE and Web services to fit together "hand-in-glove."
Application Development Trends recently took time out to reflect on the next technology paradigm. The results will provide food for thought and, perhaps, some impetus for
controversy for some time to come.
Asserting that one of the obstacles to creating Web services is the coding required, Novell Inc. is offering point-and-click Web services tools that are not beyond the scope of PC-savvy business users.
As XML Schema definitions proliferate in e-business Web services applications, developers face the almost overwhelming task of finding ways to process them, according to Peter Lacey, director of field engineering at Systinet Corp.
One of the biggest potential uses for Web services technology is providing business users with transparent links to data from disparate sources, according to Ken Newberger, who helped develop a new BI plug-in for Information Builders Inc. (IBI).
SOAPscope continues to be the best diagnostic tool for Web services developers. Visual Studio .NET integration just makes it even sweeter.
Making applications based on the old Pick Systems platform available as Web services via Microsoft .NET is the goal of a new product under development at Raining Data Corp.
The Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization last week released its Sample Application 1.0, a set of use cases, usage scenarios and technical architecture intended to help define best practices for using the WS-I's Basic Profile 1.0, and to offer Web services developers some real-world examples to help with their own projects.
Performance monitoring for Microsoft's MapPoint Web services is an early application of Computer Associates' (CA's) Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) product announced this week.
The new era of "complex, real-world XML Web service" is marked by Computer
Associates' (CA's) announcement this week of general availability for its Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) product, argues DataPower CTO Eugene Kuznetsov.