Aust businesses eye Web services
Web services is predicted to become an important part of business planning, with a survey finding that 57 percent of Australian CIOs surveyed see a Web services approach as important to achieving short and medium term goals.
Web services: Watching Sun go down
By early next year, most J2EE vendors will be releasing their J2EE 1.4 certified application servers. The proposed final draft of version 1.4, which was released this past August, includes major updates to the three core Java application server standards.
Making Web services practical
Though it was initially hailed as the Holy Grail of interoperable computing, most companies have pursued only limited adoption of Web services.
Selling Web services: Proceed with caution
While analysts can't pinpoint when the true potential of Web services will be realised, experts that we interviewed still gave the go-ahead to consultants for launching their Web services offerings.
The future of Web services
Microsoft, IBM, and BEA Systems have released a trio of proposed Web services standards to address several unmet requirements to realise the promises of the services-oriented application model.
Language barriers may stifle Web future
The lack of backwards compatibility between the Web scripting language XHTML 2.0 and its HTML predecessors could make billions of Web pages obsolete, experts fear.
It's time to start Web services planning
By all indications, 2003 will be the "Year of the Web services," as major Internet sites start to expose data as Web services, software developers shore up Web services tools, and standards committees turn up the heat.
Web services: Preparing for market changes
As Web services technologies evolve, businesses focused on integration work may need to shift gears. Find out how you can stay ahead of the curve.
Build next-generation applications
Many development shops will find out the only way to reduce time to market and meet the requirements of Web-aware applications is to move toward adoption of one or both of the new virtual machine standards
Web services: Messiah or mirage?
Software vendors keep telling us that Web services are the answer. But what is the question? Are there business drivers for using Web services, or are software vendors just trying to drive their sales?
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