Officials of webMethods Inc. and Siebel Systems Inc. on Tuesday said Web services and the Java and .Net development platforms for building these services are not a panacea for integration problems, during speeches at the webMethods Integration World 2002 conference here.
The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) on Tuesday announced availability of the WS-I Basic Profile Working Draft, which features specifications and guidelines for developing interoperable Web services.
Oracle Corp. on Monday is upgrading its JDeveloper Java development environment with enhanced backing for Web services, UML (Unified Modeling Language) modeling, and standards.
Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday released two editions of the Sun ONE Application Server, featuring integration with the Sun ONE Studio for Java Enterprise Edition Web services tools.
Looking to boost NetWare as a Web services platform, the MySQL database is to be included with NetWare 6, providing a data management platform for applications running on Novell's core platform, Novell and MySQL will announce on Monday. The database also is being bundled with Hyperion Essbase, according to MySQL.