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The Reality, Challenges, and Enormous Potential of Web Services Web services certainly have the potential to improve and simplify the process of enterprise application integration (EAI). By establishing a nonproprietary, universally accepted standard of communication between applications, Web ... Apr. 22, 2003  Reads: 19,211

EAI Industry Health Check Demand for business integration continues to intensify across a broad range of industries. Yet disappointing returns from enterprise application integration (EAI) projects and increased competition are conspiring to squeeze pure-p... Apr. 22, 2003  Reads: 18,108  Replies: 1

Introducing WS-Coordination In July 2002, BEA, IBM, and Microsoft released a trio of specifications designed to support business transactions over Web services. These specifications - BPEL4WS, WS-Transaction, and WS-Coordination - together form the bedrock f... Apr. 22, 2003  Reads: 37,894  Replies: 3

Exposing Legacy Applications SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a wire protocol that is similar to CORBA's Internet Inter-ORB protocol (IIOP) for communicating between applications running on different operating systems, with different technologies and ... Apr. 22, 2003  Reads: 10,009

Microsoft UDDI SDK 2.0 One of the least appreciated standards in the Web services world is Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration - UDDI. The concepts of the UDDI standard are fairly simple - link Web service consumers to providers. If you ar... Apr. 22, 2003  Reads: 12,708

Integration Approaches: Web Services vs Distributed Component Models PART II Last month we described the enterprise integration environment, as well as the integration problem domain and entailing architectural requirements. This month, we'll look at how Web services address these architectural requireme... Apr. 22, 2003  Reads: 9,293

Business Processes: Turning Integration Upside Down In the IT world, integration became an issue as soon as the second computer with the second application came online. Many different approaches to solving the complex problems associated with integration have been tried since that ... Apr. 22, 2003  Reads: 16,239

Putting Data and Business Process Integration in Context Concerns about economic efficiency and risk reduction always weigh heavily on IT organizations as they embark on the implementation of any new technology. This is especially true when integrating enterprise applications that must ... Apr. 22, 2003  Reads: 15,606

Patterns in Web Services Projects Having been endorsed by virtually every technology vendor on the planet, Web services are now evolving from 'feature' to 'fabric.' They are moving from the latest buzzword (hot new feature) to a mature and accepted technology (fab... Apr. 22, 2003  Reads: 10,853

Let Go My LEGO When I was a kid, I loved to put things together. I especially liked building things with LEGO. Never mind the TV, dump a huge pile of LEGO blocks in front of me and I'd be quiet for hours, building a LEGO version of the Eiffel Towe... Apr. 22, 2003  Reads: 11,303