PowerBuilder 12.5 introduced a number of significant enhancements to web services support, both for creation and consumption. We’re going to look at what those new features provide and how to use them. We’re also going to look at how we can package some of that functionality so that ...

The importance of threat protection for restful web services, I presented a number of content-based threats for XML. When protecting an endpoint from XML based attacks, not only are payloads scanned for code injections, malicious entity declarations and parser attacks, XML documents ar...

I recently had a great, freewheeling discussion with Daniel Raskin, Sun&'s Chief Identity Strategist. Daniel runs the Identity Buzz podcasts. We talked about issues in identity and entitlement enforcement in SOA, compliance, and the problems you run into as you move into new environmen...

As architects and developers continue to design and implement Web Services in distributed environments, they are faced with a versioning issue - namely, how do you deprecate, evolve, and continue to use different versions of the same service with multiple service consumers. This articl...

The quality of any application is determined by the robustness and scalability of the system. It's mandatory to simulate the actual environment and test the application for preparedness. Web Services-savvy applications need a different methodology for testing in a real-world scenario. ...

BEA, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Iona, Siebel and Sybase today announced their united support for a new specification for building and packaging applications called 'Service Component Architecture' or SCA ? characterized as 'a deployment descriptor on steroids' by those close to the spec.

A year and a day exactly after Mozilla first rolled out its popular Firefox Web browser, Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 2 became available for download - made available to the techno-savvy for testing purposes only, with no end-user support.

The open source initiatives have transformed the technical landscape by leaps and bounds in the past two decades. It has gone a long way toward breaking the stranglehold of monopolistic software companies over technologies. When programmers have the ability to read, redistribute, and m...

Recent trends in IT such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web sevices, in conjunction with the still-increasing popularity of the .NET framework, put Microsoft's BizTalk Server in the center of attention for CIOs, CTOs, architects, and enterprise developers. Apparently everyo...

Adeptia has released the latest version of its BPM server. The Adeptia BPM server is another entry in the fast-growing market for Business Process Management Tools.

A new telephony solution enables Web browser applications to interact with phone systems.

Unisys is going to offer its enterprise customers production support for the JBoss open source application server under a multi-year agreement cut by the two companies. Unisys, one of the original members of the JBoss Founder's Consortium, has been working with JBoss to integrate the s...

Blue Titan Software, Inc., the leading provider of service-oriented infrastructure software, and Wipro Technologies Inc., a leader in providing IT solutions and services, today announced a strategic technology alliance to bring a joint service-oriented infrastructure solution to global...

As I work with corporate America, as well as the government, I'm finding that services-oriented architectures (SOAs) are like snowflakes?no two are alike. I'm also finding that everyone has their own definition of SOA, and I've seen everything from messaging systems to portals called ...

Web services will continue to play a vital role within enterprises, as companies strive to create cost-effective solutions that can be integrated into existing infrastructures. J2EE and Microsoft's .NET are the two primary platforms used in Web services. And while these two platforms c...

Want to leverage your enterprise's Web services? Chances are you'll be enabling or exposing existing application services and not building new. This should come as no surprise to anyone.

Web services have served as a topic of interest for IT professionals since at least 2001, and yet there have been few examples of significant, successful deployment. With this in mind, developers and IT decision makers should be aware of the major, business-defining role of eBay's succ...

Software design has always been a focus for developers, but as we cycled through different approaches, standards, and architectures over the years, I think we've had a tendency not to pay enough attention to the fundamentals of software engineering. Clearly I've seen a decline in softw...

Mention the word 'compliance' and it is likely to conjure up images of scandalous performance by companies such as Worldcom, Enron, and Tyco. But beyond corporate governance and government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and the National Do Not Call Registry, compliance is c...

(San Francisco) - Novell has released Novell exteNd 5.2, a Web services-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) suite with Linux support. Novell exteNd 5.2 enables developers to visually design and deploy Web services-based applications, and to integrate diverse systems to build comp...

Since the advent of Web services, and other distributed computing standards for that matter, we've been wrestling with the notion of identity and how to manage it. Truth-be-told identity management has been put on the back burner as organizations attempt to get their first Web services...

IBM's 'Project Cinnamon,' still in beta but due to be released with IBM's next DB2 release, will put XML at the heart of DB2 Content Manager and allow customers to create automatically the data model of a database based on the document type definitions or XML schemas they choose.

Adobe is encouraging WebSphere users to see how its new Intelligent Document Platform software works. By blending together the data integration power of XML with the presentation capabilities of PDF, says the company, Adobe's Intelligent Document Platform 'extends the WebSphere environ...

Bandwidth.com provides options for securing the best deals on Internet connectivity. It has sold Internet connectivity of all types and speeds from a wide selection of national service providers to thousands of homes and businesses since 1999. The company's quote service provides up-to...

As we look to make more practical use of Web services, the need has emerged for a better user interface; one that's neither too fat nor too thin. An interface that allows developers to make the most out of the client's native features, while at the same time, not bogging the client dow...

My colleague wrote an article for XML-J two years ago about an opportunity we had to solve our data management challenges with XML. The result of our work was our XML Data Services (XDS), an XML data access language and processing engine, which allowed us to quickly and easily manage t...

Having been endorsed by virtually every technology vendor on the planet, Web services are now evolving from 'feature' to 'fabric.' They are moving from the latest buzzword (hot new feature) to a mature and accepted technology (fabric of the technology landscape). The hype is fading; it...

When Microsoft was looking to create the world's first nationwide, community-based Web services offering, it looked to Singapore. In a report distributed by the World Economic Forum, Singapore possesses the 'Most Wired Government' and, as a country, is the 'Most Effective in Promoting ...

A rapidly growing number of organizations are turning to Web services as a means of bringing increased agility to their core business systems. A key part of this increased agility is better access to real-time business content in order to address such business requests as:

In the past, if you wanted to book a holiday over the Internet you would browse a travel agent's Web site, select a holiday, and book it. If you were lucky, you'd be able to rent a car and possibly even check on the weather. Behind the scenes, the Web server - the computer and software...

A couple of weeks ago, while I was on my way home, my cell phone rang and I was greeted by one of my favorite customers, who sounded like he had had better days. He had just left a meeting with the CIO and received his annual development budget for the following year. The problem was t...

Web services promises to finally provide a universal mechanism for connecting loosely coupled systems. If the dream bears fruit, it will represent a huge advance in enterprise computing, facilitating distributed, transaction-centric collaboration in an inexpensive, quick, and relia...

The goal of the Web services architecture is to enable seamless application integration over the network without regard to programming language or operating environment - one of the key components of the goal to enable inter-and intra-enterprise business processes and workflows to take...

In many respects, Web services are nothing new. They are just a natural evolution of an approach to building systems that dates back 40 years. On the other hand, they hold the promise of truly transforming computing in the same way that client/server computing did over the past 15 ...

Most companies find it easy to recognize the need to move their business online. Customers call for more timely information and easier access to online ordering as well as training and documentation. Internal operations and sales people want to leverage the cost benefits and effici...

Both peer-to-peer (P2P) and Web services are attempts at decentralizing computing. P2P is more mind-set than technology, an attempt to weave the world's intermittently connected machines, into the fabric of the Internet. Web services are a more formal technological challenge, an attem...