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 | NEW Insight and outlook, Part 1: Why and when should you choose SOA? |
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| NEW Insight and outlook, Part 2: How do I translate business needs into IT requirements? |
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| PHP Puts Web Apps, Wikis in Users' Hands in the first one. |
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| Andreessen: PHP succeeding where Java isn't. |
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|  Service Oriented Architecture (68KB)
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How to migrate to a service oriented architecture. |
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| Web services in action
Web services may be the latest hot topic of conversation, but for many companies, that's all the technology amounts to — talk. |
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| A Progress Report on Web Services
When the term "Web services" was introduced several years ago to describe a new level of information technology (IT) and business-to-business (B2B) integration, it sounded almost too good to be true. |
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| Akamai, IBM to launch service
The new service, called Akamai EdgeComputing, is set to be unveiled today to improve the performance of ''Web services'' — programs that automatically interact with other programs over the Internet. |
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| Things Remembered - Lessons learned
Risk wears at least two faces in high-technology projects. There is the risk of using new technology, and the risk of resting on your laurels. |
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 | IBM Jump-Starts Services
When Java was the cool, new thing back in the '90s, IBM's emerging technologies SWAT team helped developers navigate the technology. Now that team, called jStart, has a new focus: Web services. |
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| XML Web services One Conference and Expo highlights
by Paul Krill from InfoWorld. Web services growth potential - Growing demand for Web services became evident at the XML Web services One Conference and Expo here this week as attendees analyzed the opportunities and challenges ahead. |
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| Mainframe shops eye Web Services
"Web services has an obvious place in legacy integrations, but you'll need to use caution — it's still early in the game", says Joseph McKendrick from Enterprise Systems Journal. |
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| The Universal Translator Concept in action - E2Open (160KB)
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Ray Vollmer (Giga Information Group) shows how the E2Open E2PD solution incorporates any-to-any data translation built on a combination of IBM and Vitria integration and data transformation technology. |
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| Web Services pushed toward integration
"The winners in the web services race will be companies whose offerings internalize Web services standards, such as XML and WSDL, across their platforms in an integrated fashion, rather than simply by bolting them on", reports Darryl K. Taft from eWEEK. |
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| Putting SOAP tools to work
For users of the new breed of Web services tool kits, there's a certain sense of deja vu. Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is, after all, just another remote procedure calls (RPC) protocol; Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is just another interface definition language; and Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) is just another directory service. |
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| Building Web Services
Tool kits for designing and building Web services have a core set of capabilities, including SOAP messaging integration, plus automated help for WSDL wrappers and debugging distributed Web services. |
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| 2001 InfoWorld 100
How things change. Notions of Y2K survival and dot-com delirium are just fond memories as IT professionals this year faced the challenging tasks of cutting costs, increasing productivity, and making an instant profit — all during a time of a drastic economic downturn with an ominous backdrop of international terrorism. But the many admirable organizations that InfoWorld's senior editorial team named to the 2001 InfoWorld 100 are tackling these challenges head-on, finding innovative ways to use technology to meet some or all of their business and financial goals. |
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| Web Services Crack App Integration Nut
The experiences of Imperial Sugar, Nordstrom.com, Hewitt & Associates and other enterprises suggest that Web services represent a third major wave of Internet adoption. The grassroots support for Web services bears striking similarities to the proliferation of TCP/IP and HTTP, which drove commercial adoption of the Internet and then the Web in the first two waves. |
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| Interview with Rod Smith,
VP Emerging Technologies at IBM. He is responsible for leading technological innovation in the software space and guiding it into industry standard specifications and into IBM's Internet products such as Web Sphere. In particular, Mr. Smith was responsible for IBMs XML and Web Services adoption and their role in Web Services initiatives. about Web services and IBM's role in J2EE. |
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| Putnam Lovell Securities
is an Internet-savvy investment bank. It relies on half a dozen Web firms to run its business. Putnam analysts write and manage their research reports through a Web site run by BlueMatrix. Putnam uses Salesforce.com to keep track of customers and leads. Such Web services cost 20% to 80% less than managing comparable software in-house. |
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| Building for a Brave New World
Although still in its infancy, Web services is tantalizing the industry by promising a collection of technologies and services that will integrate seamlessly via the Web. Can you afford to ignore it? Say the term “Web services” around a lot of enterprise-administrators, and you’ll probably trigger some hype-detectors. That’s because the Web services arena currently has all the heated atmosphere and buy-now promises of a paid programming infomercial on late-night television. |
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| Is openness enough for IBM?
The IBM development strategy today is, in a word, WebSphere. The strategy places IBM tools from myriad sources under the WebSphere moniker and reflects the Armonk, N.Y.-based computer giant's latest embrace of technology standards, open source technologies and a newfound willingness to join forces with a variety of suppliers. |
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| Developing With Web Services
Web-services technology, a set of emerging protocols and standards, offers a different approach to enterprise integration and development. Developers can build standard interfaces to existing and new systems using the Simple Object Access Protocol and describe how to access the data using the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). |
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| Decoding Web Services
With the slowing economy, employees are demanding faster, more convenient access to their benefits accounts to keep up with volatile market conditions, and the recent terrorist attacks have only increased that demand. According to Hewitt Associates LLC, 401(k) balance-transfer activity was nine times normal levels on the Monday following the disaster. Hewitt knows because the human-resources company provides employee benefits information, such as 401(k) balances and transactions, to its 250 business customers and their 15 million employees. |
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| Putting a face on Web services
As Web services usher in new ways to build, deploy, and consume software, they will in turn demand new interfaces. The current method of accessing software from a big fat PC browser won't be entirely replaced any time soon, but as new devices interact with Web services, they will require more adaptable interfaces. |
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