At the conclusion of his J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) Web services presentation at last year’s JavaOne, IBM architect Jim Knutson remarked that “every Web service needs a place to be a ...

Although most of the Web services examples in tutorials and books are green-field developments — that is, started from scratch with little or no concern for legacy systems — that is not a likely ...

The Microsoft Web Services Development Kit (WSDK), available at the company's MSDN site, allows developers to build Web services using the latest round of Web services standards, including WS-Security ...

Web services may be the latest hot topic of conversation, but for many companies, that’s all the technology amounts to — talk. Not so for four pioneering companies where Web services are already in ...

Web services provide organizations with flexible, standards-based mechanisms for deploying business logic and functionality to distributed consumers. When functionality is distributed, however, ...

Adam Bosworth, senior vice-president of engineering at BEA Systems Inc., showed off an alpha version of a forthcoming application development framework for building Web services in San Francisco at ...

Microsoft this week began offering a beta release of its Web Services Enhancements 3.0 pack for .Net, which is focused on security. Microsoft in June had released Community Technology Preview (CTP) ...

The company is shipping its new WebSphere application server--fortified with support for leading Web services protocols and standards--that it plans to provide free to developers. Mary Jo Foley Mary ...

Web services continues to enjoy a great deal of industry enthusiasm and attention, primarily for its perceived role in the future of application and partner integration. Yet skepticism abounds. This ...

Throughout the last few months of 2005 there was a pronounced ramp-up in activity around Web Services to enable integration of marketing, sales and CRM databases so that more precise selling ...