THE FUTURE OF WEB services in the enterprise lies not in hit-and-run applications such as stock quotes, ZIP code validation, and weather updates. Rather, Web services promises to take companies to the ...

LOS ANGELES — As companies increase their use of Web services to integrate existing applications and build new ones, many are eyeing enterprise service bus (ESB) middleware technology to help reduce ...

The latest buzz term in tech circles is Web services, which - objectively speaking - is basically a type of middleware that lets disparate computing systems talk to one another over the Internet, both ...

Web services standards need to mature before SOA can really take off. Companies today can implement a limited form of SOA in traditional middleware environments, such as Common Object Request Broker ...

While the core of the Web services set of protocols has been agreed upon, many supporting protocols are still in the shop. Is there value in implementing Web services right now, and how is it best to ...

Galileo International Inc. is selling a Web services integrator to its customers. The Parsippany, N.J.-based subsidiary of Cendant Corp. said yesterday that it has developed middleware based on XML ...

Even the title of the seminar,"Web Services: Another Serving of Hype, Or Something That You Should Care About?",explains the problem. "It's not when, but how. It all depends on what you want to do," ...

The ultimate acceptance of next-generation Web services technologies in the enterprise hinges on their ease of adoption and solid performance. Moreover, developers will require timesaving tools that ...

As Doug Kaye explains in the editor's note, this isn't a light introduction to the topic of Web services middleware. We pretty much dove right in. Even so, I think you'll find it interesting and ...