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Part II: Getting Real about Web Services and "Transparent Interoperation."
Technological infrastructures within companies and supply chains today resemble the bar scene in "Star Wars." XML's promise: To turn that chaos into universal cooperation, thus enabling Web services. Here's how the XML revolution is affecting your company.
Part I: The Web Services promise is tempting. How close is real fulfillment?
Should Web services achieve the popularity many predict, the war between Sun and Microsoft figures to rage on well into the future, as Sun’s Open Net Environment is the J2EE-driven equivalent of Microsoft’s .NET initiative.
The term “Web services” is still so vague and poorly defined that examples often prove the best way to get a handle on how the concept might change the way you do business with suppliers and customers.
At IBM, Web services are the next logical step moving forward in the middleware space, as the integrations they support help Big Blue give developers the ability to create application environments that work together.
Java applications servers are frequently cited as a growing market in a dismal industry, but little attention is paid to tools for supporting J2EE. Computer Associates International Inc. hopes to close the gap by having Sun-endorsed tools on the market.
IBM Corp. said last week it had shipped its 1000th zSeries Mainframe, suggesting a revival of interest in the venerable platform. The zSeries mainframe launched in December 2000.
While the focus, for those building and using Web services, is often on XML, there’s another crucial technology that needs to be followed: XSLT.
Unix giant Sun Microsystems, Inc. said Tuesday it purchased the mainframe rehosting business from Critical Path, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Sun will get Critical Paths’ technology, assets, and developers related to the rehosting business.