Columnist Tony Baer describes what things might be like if the remaining obstacles to Web services adoption fall away.
Monitoring the performance of distributed systems remains one of the great challenges for IT managers today -- one that has only intensified with the advent of Web services.
Editor-in-Chief Mike Bucken discusses Web services technology.
What you need to know about standards, technologies and implementations.
The emergence of Service-oriented Management software will lead the rapid growth of Web services management products, which will reach $9.2 billion in the next five years, predicts ZapThink LLC., a Waltham, Mass.-based consulting
firm.
To meet the demands of customers moving to multi-server, multi-service Web service deployments, Cape Clear Software is distributing a beta version of what it calls a next-generation Web services platform, according to Executive Vice
President David Clarke.
Dow Corning discusses its initiative to get up close to real-time-type capabilities and to extend that ability to its suppliers and customers through Web apps or business-to-business automation.
Further development and promotion of Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) security technology for e-business and Web services applications will be done by the OASIS global standards consortium.
Phaos Technology has released Version 2.0 of its toolkit for developing applications based on the Liberty Alliance Web specifications.
ADT's Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan talks with the OMG's Richard Soley.
Realists dismiss noise surrounding J2EE and .NET to concentrate on more important hurdles on the road to a true distributed component model -- like licensing, reuse, testing and Web services.
This is something of a hardscrabble era in which "technology vision" takes a back seat to practical accomplishment. Still, the idea of tighter, low-latency app integration holds promise.
IBM's Allegro Framework, currently in beta, will provide mechanisms, including metering and billing, so businesses can sell and subscribe to Web services.
Siebel and Microsoft disclose details of a wide-ranging strategic alliance during Siebel's user conference.
XSL-FO, which provides a framework for the useful formatting of semantics for paginating information for better browser navigation and print support, can be a Web services creator's best friend, says Ken Holman.