The web services challenge
As organisations move into web services, they’ll need to store all the XML documents that users are creating in web interactions with business partners and customers.
As organisations move into web services, they’ll need to store all the XML documents that users are creating in web interactions with business partners and customers.
Web services should achieve “ubiquity” within a few years, says Sun ONE senior director Marty Robbins.
Don't become "fashion victims" says development manager
Insurance company NZI has started down the road of externalising its applications so others can use them.
You like the sound of web services. This emerging multi-vendor development architecture could trim your application integration wishlist and help you get new applications to users faster. Andrea Malcolm quizzes developers on what's real and what's fantasy.
The three Foodstuffs grocery cooperatives are to use a Microsoft .Net application developed by systems integrator Axon to manage content across their websites.
The year 2001 witnessed horrific events and called a halt to 10 years of unprecedented economic growth, but it also spawned a number of technological innovations that are only just now beginning to take root.
Beyond providing a lower-cost infrastructure for application integration, the advent of web services lays the foundation for a slew of changes in enterprise computing that will manifest themselves during the next several years.
An informal survey of IT decision-makers whose companies are getting an early start at building web services suggested that most developers are choosing Java-based tools over Microsoft's .Net, a research company says.
Management Speak: You have to be more efficient.
Management Speak: Application of this tool in our environment is critical to successfully meet our objectives.
I’m not surprised that so many of you have been writing me to profess your scepticism about web services and their ability to drive the next great software evolution.