WS Process

Modernizing Axis1 Services Painlessly

Wed, 28 May 2008 15:30:00 EDT

If you've been working with Web Services for a long time, chances are you've worked with Apache Axis and that you have an Axis Web Service somewhere in your code base. You probably also know about the many improvements in Axis2, especially around support for the more modern WS-* standards. So maybe you've been planning on migrating these old Axis services, but it can be hard to justify spending a lot of time on something that's working just fine.

Mainframe SOA Best Practice

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:30:00 EDT

To ensure the success of your mainframe SOA initiatives, it's important to be able to support both bottom-up and contract-first design approaches. With the former, businesses may see an opportunity to jumpstart the SOA, quickly packaging bite-sized chunks of mainframe code as Web Services, and pushing them out to the rest of the organization to do with them what they will. But experience shows that the contract-first approach - basically, Web Service design informed by business processes - is a 'best practice' that will yield optimal results.

Web 2.0 - Its Component Model and Message Exchange Patterns

Mon, 22 May 2006 11:45:00 EDT

The W3C released WSDL 2.0 as a Candidate Recommendation on January 6, 2006. The Web Services Description Group, part of the Web Services Activity, made three main documents publicly available for review: Part 0: Primer - Intended to be a less-technical introduction to the main concepts described in the Core Language. Part 1: Core Language - Describes the elements for the abstract concepts and the constructs for binding concrete implementations found in the Adjuncts document. Part 2: Adjuncts - Defines the predefined extension points and mechanisms for pairing WSDL with its most likely partners SOAP and HTTP.

Managing and Integrating Extended Supply Chains

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:00:00 EDT

Over the last decade, supply chains have evolved to keep pace with changing business dynamics. This is especially true in high-tech electronics, where companies depend on an extended value chain of component suppliers, outsourced manufacturers, and logistics partners - not to mention B2B-integrated customers - to coordinate vital inter-company design and manufacturing processes. Adding to this complexity, business decisions are more centralized, while outsourced supply networks are increasingly distributed and global.