Articles by Toufic Boubez

WS Track - The Role of Policy in Web Services Integration - It's More Than Just Security

Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

Too often today the preferences, terms, and conditions describing how a Web service behaves when discovered and invoked is programmed right into the business logic. Hard-coding this behavior logic however introduces cost, complexity, and rigidity into a Web services architecture.

Beyond XML Firewalling

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Traditional development produces applications that are closed to wide usage. Custom development is required to open these programs to wide-scale integration. In contrast, Web services applications are by default open to other systems and additional configuration is required to block access.

Beyond XML Firewalling

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Policy-It's More Than Just Security - From just-in-time integration to Web services

Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:00:00 EST

Business has long pursued the goal of making IT more of a strategic tool and less of a necessary evil. Organizations are constantly looking for easier, cheaper, and more logical ways to build applications and unite the silos of functionality they still depend on.

Web Services Security

Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:00:00 EDT

In recent years, few technological concepts have generated as much excitement as XML and Web services. After the initial excitement and onslaught of developers creating 'Hello World' applications and (unfortunately) posting them to a multitude of UDDI directories, there was a general eagerness to apply this skill to real business problems (and we're not talking about online Celsius-to-Fahrenheit calculators).

Bringing Order to Enterprise Service Proliferation

Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:07:55 EDT

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.