Is Microsoft’s .Net a better alternative to J2EE for creating Web services? Join the online discussion in the Computerworld forums. The cornerstones of Web services include the Universal Description, ...

Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with focused ...

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 ...

Page II: The use of Web services as an integration technology is starting to pick up speed. We asked four local organisations about their Web services integration projects. The Distributed Systems ...

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 ...

With all that said, it is fair to say this is the era of Web services hype. As a marketing phenomenon, the Web services hype is riding on a wave of XML hype, which in turn is helping to promote ...