Articles by Gunjan Samtani

Straight-Through Processing and Orchestration of Web Services

Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:00:00 EDT

One word can describe the current state within financial organizations as far as straight-through processing (STP) is concerned: confusion.

Web Services Monitoring and Performance Management

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:00:00 EDT

It's critical that service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based Web services solutions provide high-performance, reliable, extensible, scalable, and open standards-based communication and integration for both internal and external applications that can be easily monitored.

Business Process Management & Web Services

Fri, 24 May 2002 00:00:00 EDT

The journey of business process management (BPM) from technologies such as document flow routing to service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based Web services has been a process of evolution rather than revolution.

J2EE-Based Application Servers, Web Services and EAI

Wed, 01 May 2002 00:00:00 EDT

Today, Web services are being portrayed as the building blocks for the EAI platform, whereas, in the last three-to-four years, J2EE-based application servers have been able to carve their way to the core of enterprise application integration (EAI) solutions for several small, mid-, and large-size companies. This article examines how J2EE-based application servers support Web services and how they tie into and enterprise's overall integration and Web services strategy, enabling companies to use service-oriented architecture for EAI.

Security and the .NET FrameworkGrave danger awaits if your security isn't robust

Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:00:00 EST

Labeled as the coming nirvana for enterprise application integration and business-to-business (B2B) integration, Web services technology is nonetheless vulnerable to a wide array of security threats such as denial of service and spoofing. In this article, we'll review Web services security requirements, the factors that determine them, and how Microsoft's .NET Framework supports them.