Microsoft Corp. development tools managers put forward the company’s evolving vision for XML-based Web services at the Tech.Ed 2002 conference in New Orleans. --Apr. 12
One of the biggest problems with Web services, said David Chappell and Tyler
Jewell, is explaining it -- that is, pulling all the pieces together into a
coherent and hype-free description of what Web services are and how developers
can create and deploy them.
IT departments are dealing with more data than ever, but it is locked up in
a patchwork of disparate repositories: legacy systems, relational databases,
data warehouses, Web pages, e-mail and the like.
Jack Vaughan wonders if the mythical Rip Van Winkle were to awake from his 20-year snooze not at
the end of the American Colonial era, but rather at the end of the Internet
Gold Rush, that he actually wouldn't find all that
much changed.
At JavaOne, Sun outlines its plans for the SunONE Platform for Network Identity.
JavaOne 2002 will make the case for Java over Microsoft and .NET as the platform of choice in the emerging world of Web services.
In the next five years, Web services will democratize enterprise application integration, predicts Annrai O'Toole, CEO at Cape Clear Software. -Mar. 15, 2002
As more work is done with Web services, some developers say they are encountering "limitations" in the technology. -Mar. 7, 2002
Question for Web services champions: Once the world is overrun with the technology, who's going to keep track of Web services to let them be used efficiently? -Mar. 7, 2002
BEA head Alfred Chuang launched his company's seventh annual developer conference, eWorld, last week with the unveiling of a Java RAD tool for Web services. -Mar. 4, 2002
Many misconceptions about .NET revolve around the issue of Web services. It is worth the effort to clear things up, says David Chappell.
Software developers rush to transform Web services from concept to solution.
A look at the strategies of key IT suppliers.
Tony Baer: "In development organizations, the intensity of vendor competition tends to
politicize technology decisions. Today, choosing between Java and Microsoft technologies often equates to picking
sides in a gang war."
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Billing it as nothing less than the 'most comprehensive development tool of
all time,' Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates today rolled out
the long anticipated Visual Studio .NET software suite at the VSLive! 2002 Conference
in San Francisco.