Microsoft and others champion the coexistence of legacy CORBA and emerging Web services standards. Like COBOL, CORBA has become a part of the foundation of many IT shops.
Developers will deliver new applications rapidly by using composite applications and orchestrations.
Through the Web services series of specifications, Microsoft and IBM are working together to create the standards for communication that we need. These specifications are the future of Web services.
DataWatch is betting that small- to medium-sized businesses are ready to tackle XML projects. --Aug.30
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Web services can provide an open and interoperable development framework, but the technology requires an architecture unlike anything built before.
The data-describing power of XML could have a very dark side in the hand of mischievous individuals, says Ron Schmelzer, a senior analyst at industry analyst firm ZapThink, Waltham, Mass.
Despite the existence of SOAPBuilders events and the recently formed Web Services Interoperability forum, if developers want a short-term solution to the problem of interoperability, they're going to have to find it themselves.
Montreal-based Codagen Technologies Corp. has brought out a tool that company officials said can quickly bridge the gap between BizTalk and Web services.
IBM, Microsoft and BEA jointly announce three proposed specifications for defining, creating and connecting multiple business processes in a Web services environment.
The future of one of the key building blocks of Web services applications has been placed in the hands of an international standards body.
Needing a new application to track wild elk herds in the Rockies, the Colorado Department of Agriculture turned to a Web services architecture.
Can Web services champions convince skeptical corporate IT managers that this emerging technology can make it safe to spread the confidential data outside the firewall? Struggling CommerceOne, once an Internet high flyer, is betting big that the model can work.
When Excelon Corp. disclosed plans for its Extensible Information Server (XIS) XML database to support Oracle 9i, the company's Coco Jaenicke was often asked an important question: Why would one organization need two databases to store XML data?
XML standardization is not solving all the problems in e-procurement, said Charles Ewen, e-business development manager for Premier Farnell. But he does expect that Web services can eventually resolve many of the issues his company faces in setting up electronic transactions with customers.