If history is any indication, the battle for dominance in the Web services space won't hinge upon the overall efficacy of a vendor's advertising hype. Rather, a Web services champion will be determinedby the degree to which they can court the support of enterprise software developers and independent software vendors.
So it was a month or so ago that I first caught wind of this new Eclipse project. A colleague of mine shouted over to me, “Hey Matt, did you see the thing about IBM donating $40 million in software to a new open-source developer platform?” No, I said, could you forward it to me? And it was on…
Expect lower prices, faster deployment and easier integration as ASPs package Web services into their hosted services.
When people think about the security of Web Services, they naturally worry about two things: the security of the XML documents as they are being transported over the Internet; and the security of the XML documents while they are being used at a server or client.
Web technologies get personalized to increase profits