Separately, Microsoft on Tuesday took a stab at bolstering the Web-based tools and specifications needed to make Web services built using its .Net tools more secure, and more attractive to businesses.

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 ...

For Microsoft, binding .Net to Web services represents a profound shift in the company’s strategy. Microsoft has pried open a space between its development tools and its technology architecture.

Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOA) have become fundamental components in modern distributed systems, enabling interoperable, flexible and scalable digital ecosystems. However ...

“I just don’t know if making mainframe data accessible via .NET or any other Web-services architecture is going to be as easy as they tell me,” said one Cobol developer at a major ...

Edgewater Technology offers a migration strategy for the straight-through processing of financial transactions utilising Web services technology and shared business objects.

First, there was SOA. Then Web 2.0. And most recently, SOA 2.0. Now, Gartner is promoting a concept it has dubbed Web-oriented architecture. “What we’re trying to do at Gartner is, if at all ...

For Web services to succeed in extending the remarkably successful "document" Web into a "trusted business services" Web that reliably spans the globe, designers must apply service-oriented ...

With the Web services tools that J2EE and .Net provide, integration between the two platforms is easily realized in a cleanly separated architecture. XML is the language common to both environments.