Microsoft Corp., BEA Systems Inc. and Tibco Software Inc. on Wednesday published a specification, WS-Eventing, which is intended to provide a common way of communicating events within and between Web services.
In a previous column, I described a simple client program for sending and receiving SOAP messages over HTTP. Because of the exciting reader response, I made a few promises to explore Web services programming for the server.
A recent Gartner Dataquest survey illuminates what many North American enterprises want from their Web services projects. Software vendors and system integrators should take note.
Systinet Corp. on Thursday is making generally available WASP Server for Java 4.6, the company's Web Services infrastructure platform, featuring improved security.
IBM Corp. on Wednesday announced it will offer a CICS (Customer Information Control System) SOAP Technology Preview designed to help developers build connections to its venerable CICS-based mainframe applications through Web services.
A standards body working on protocols for Web services has begun crafting a specification for reliability that will help plug a hole in the budding technology that is stifling enterprise adoption.