Web services cannot yet limit access to valuable corporate resources. Authors urge creation of security architecture and adoption of corporate security principles.
A roundup of new tools and technology.
Wizards do have their place, but it seems that their occasional convenience should not form
a backbone consideration for the development of any technology.
Many developers working on Web services applications may never have seen a
working IBM 3270 terminal with its pre-Windows PC display limited to bright green phosphorous letters and numbers. But they, along with their older COBOL brethren, still have to deal with 3270 issues when integrating legacy systems to Web applications.
A look back at some of Big Blue's acquisitions and software moves in 2002.
The current "tough economy" will spur greater deployment of Web services for
integration inside and outside the firewall, moves that will lead to a revival of much maligned B2B efforts, predicts Jeff Tonkel in his first week as president and CEO of Infravio Inc.
Sun Microsystems last week began shipping Version 6.0 of its SunONE Identity Server, said to be one of the first commercially available ID servers based on Liberty Alliance Project specifications for federated network identity.
While XML is primarily a software technology, DataPower Technology Inc. offers a vision of hardware for processing XML, especially in
Web services applications.
Doug Ring, vice president of eBusiness technology at Geac Enterprise Solutions, sees a future for global Web services where mobile devices
link to a variety of applications as part of as yet-unimagined business models. But that's in the future. Right now, the focus in a conservative economic climate is on nitty-gritty business chores.
The bitter rivalry between Microsoft Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. appears to be back in full force after several Apple moves disclosed by CEO Steve Jobs during last week's MacWorld conference in San Francisco.
Following up on the November announcement that it was taking over the PKI Forum, OASIS announced this week that it has formed a new technical committee to "advance adoption of the Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) for Web services and other applications."
Developer's Corner, http://dev.systinet.com/, a new online community for users of Web services tools from Systinet Corp., launched this week.
To show that not all Web services deployments are
back-office integration efforts, Microsoft is touting a .NET application bringing together FAA and related information to provide business travelers with real-time flight data.
You don't need a crystal ball to find what the killer application for Web services will be in 2003, maintains John McGuire, co-founder and senior vice president of engineering at Cape Clear Software, a Dublin, Ireland-based Web
services tool maker, because it's under every IT manager's nose: The simplification of application integration inside the firewall.
At first glance, Web services and data warehousing look like a very odd couple; but some experts say there could be key long-term benefits to converting warehouse data to XML.