When discussing Web
services, most people
tend to focus on the core
Web services framework
(the standards and
protocols) and the
applications that you can
build with the framework.
Although I have no
trouble waxing profusely
on th...
Managing change in a
software system is a lot
like balancing your
personal finances. With
or without a resource
allocation plan, the
assets available and the
demands placed on them
change constantly.
Whether it's your code or
your...
In June 2003, the Global
Grid Forum (GGF) adopted
the Open Grid Services
Infrastructure (OGSI)
specification as a GGF
standard. OGSI is
essential to the Open
Grid Computing vision as
it is the foundation on
top of which the building...
Over the last few years,
there have been
significant developments
in the Web services
world. Many enterprises
have embraced Web
services to build
business-to-business
transactions and a
uniform communication
layer among applicatio...
We are often asked by
people who are trying to
understand the value Grid
technology brings to Web
services, 'What is the
significance of Grid
services? They look like
Web services.'
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 (see WSJ,
Vol. 3, issues 5-7), f...
It's easy to develop Web
services using Ruby. This
article looks at how to
develop a Web service
client to access the Web
services that are hosted
in the Internet and how
to develop a Web service
with simple steps using
Ruby.
GLUE, by The Mind
Electric, is a framework
for developing and
publishing Web services.
It is simple, easy, and
fast to create Web
services. GLUE supports
SOAP1.2, WSDL1.1, and
UDDI v2. It comes in two
editions: GLUE standard
is fr...
An important part of the
Web service vision being
promoted by the Worldwide
Web Consortium (W3C) and
others is that of
automated service
discovery, the idea being
that when we need a
particular kind of
service we will no longer
ha...
When we think of all of
the various complexities
that can surface when
implementing Web services
at the enterprise level,
we often think of
integration issues,
transactional integrity,
security, and so on. We
wouldn't necessarily ra...
In June I attended the
JavaOne conference out in
San Francisco, to keep up
with what the Java world
was doing, and to see how
it impacted Web services.
I see a number of
parallels between Web
services and the way that
the various Ja...
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
There are 8,909 books
listed on Amazon.com with
the word 'Investing' in
the title; there are(!)
27,146 books with the
word investment in the
title. Without having lo
This book is an update of
an earlier version that
was written for SQL
Server 2000. It employs
the Murach approach of
dual pages that repeat
and enhance the concepts 
Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
reading,' but no other
description fits the new
book 'Ajax Security'
(2007, Addison Wesley,
470p). This exhaustive
tome from B
In my many years of
programming, almost 20
years now, I have used
countless integrated
development environments
(IDEs). I have used
everything from a simple
text edi