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Web services may be all the rage these days, but users, developers, and even vendors are only nibbling at the edges of what this still-unfolding shift in software architecture and delivery means to ...

With all that said, it is fair to say this is the era of Web services hype. As a marketing phenomenon, the Web services hype is riding on a wave of XML hype, which in turn is helping to promote ...

Bill Gates rallies developers as Microsoft announces a preview of new XML-based specifications designed to bolster Web services security. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston ...

The Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA) platform is a term that encompasses a variety of proposed new standards in the area of Web services interoperability. A fair number of big corporate ...

The architecture includes various components -- such as a contract repository and a monitor to compare the particulars of events with those specified in the contract -- and these must be linked. "Web ...

As large organizations find increasing difficulty in merging many complex, mission-critical software systems into their established and evolving computing infrastructures, the role of the enterprise ...