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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...