Web services may be all the rage these days, but users, developers, and even vendors are only nibbling at the edges of what this still-unfolding shift in software architecture and delivery means to ...

Enterprise application integration; enterprise systems integration; legacy data access: thoughts that make most of us cringe. Until now, these terms have meant long hours of frustration, sleepless ...

The Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA) platform is a term that encompasses a variety of proposed new standards in the area of Web services interoperability. A fair number of big corporate ...

PRIOR TO TAKING on the role of CTO at Systinet, Anne Thomas Manes was the peer-to-peer evangelist for Sun Microsystems, where she championed the adoption of SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) ...

As large organizations find increasing difficulty in merging many complex, mission-critical software systems into their established and evolving computing infrastructures, the role of the enterprise ...

The idea of using platform-independent Web services technology to provide access to back-end mainframe applications is picking up speed. Software vendors with experience in the Web services market are ...

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The architecture includes various components -- such as a contract repository and a monitor to compare the particulars of events with those specified in the contract -- and these must be linked. "Web ...

Edgewater Technology offers a migration strategy for the straight-through processing of financial transactions utilising Web services technology and shared business objects. The paper describes a ...

The first word in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is “simple,” but the world of Web services has become very complicated. In early 2000 the SOAP specification was published, and it was quickly ...