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Within the IT industry, we're seeing a steady shift from an RPC (remote procedure call) integration style to asynchronous, document-based integration. More and more developers are realizing that asynchronous services are core to a new, loosely coupled and message-driven architectur... Sep. 26, 2003 Reads: 8,485 Replies: 3 | Let's start with a high-level overview of WS-I and, if you can, highlight key members, new members, and what your broad mission statement is. Sep. 26, 2003 Reads: 17,627 Replies: 1 | To quote Peter Drucker: 'The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the 50-fold increase in productivity of the manual worker in manufacturing. Sep. 26, 2003 Reads: 7,333 | In a previous article (Web Services Journal, Vol. 3, issue 7), we looked at business process management (BPM) driven by Web services and the opportunity it presents for new types of business solutions. Sep. 26, 2003 Reads: 8,640 | Transactions are a common, everyday occurrence in our lives. When you buy something at the grocery store, transfer funds between bank accounts, or simply make a phone call you are executing a transaction. Sep. 26, 2003 Reads: 6,579 | UDDI has been around for almost three years now. It has gone from an initial proposal by three companies (Ariba, IBM, and Microsoft), to a consortium effort (www.uddi.org) with a community of hundreds, and finally into the hands of the OASIS standards body. Sep. 26, 2003 Reads: 19,098 | One of the most frustrating things I've ever encountered in my life is trying to loosen a nut using a socket from the wrong measurement system. You know, I've got a metric nut, but an English socket set. So I find a socket that's close, but it's loose, and inevitably I end up stripp... Sep. 26, 2003 Reads: 10,117 Replies: 2 | Web services are moving from the latest buzzword to a mature and accepted technology. Mainstream companies such as Eastman Chemical, Wells Fargo, and NEC have begun deploying significant Web Services-Based Integration (WSBI) projects. Sep. 26, 2003 Reads: 21,596 Replies: 2 | In the past there seemed to be two more or less exclusive routes to integration: 'roll your own' or buy an EAI product. Typically, developers would choose the first option for maximum flexibility, while project managers preferred the second, for consistency and security. Sep. 26, 2003 Reads: 14,190 Replies: 1 | With Web services becoming more prevalent in organizations, keeping tabs on performance, analyzing problems, and managing overall quality of service is as important as ever. Sep. 26, 2003 Reads: 12,179 | Service-oriented architecture is an attractive vehicle for attaining greater business agility. It has the potential to dramatically improve productivity and increase shareholder value with a comparatively modest (though far from dismissible) incremental investment in information te... Sep. 26, 2003 Reads: 6,904 | The work being done in WSDM will lay a firm foundation for effective distributed system management, both leveraging the unifying strengths of Web services in the solution itself and addressing the specific requirements for managing what are rapidly becoming the universal glue in enterp... Sep. 26, 2003 Reads: 12,802 | UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) is a registry for Web services. It provides a mechanism to advertise and discover Web services. Although you don't need to use UDDI to implement a Web services solution, you'll find that a UDDI registry greatly simplifies the ... Sep. 26, 2003 Reads: 18,464 Replies: 4 | If your company is like most, it is likely that your suppliers, vendors, distributors, and partners have exposed dozens of Web services for your use. Sep. 26, 2003 Reads: 19,217 |
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