Article gallery: XML & Web Services newsletter

Web services security market kicks off

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000

With four vendors releasing web services security solutions, web services security worries may at last begin to fade.

Oracle buys its way back into BPM

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 01:00:00 +0000

Oracle's acquisition of Collaxa leapfrogs the company to the front of the BPM market

Advisors disagree over web services' future

Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Some analysts see a rapid upsurge in web services use. Others warn that take up is being slowed down by complexity, cost and process issues. Who is right?

Web services competitors unite on addressing

Sun, 01 Aug 2004 01:00:00 +0000

It was the phoney standards war that was stalling everything. But with the opposing camps united behind WS-Addressing, an important foundation of the service oriented architecture (SOA) is now far closer than it was just a month ago.

JBoss plans open source BPM

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Open Source pioneer JBoss is planning to introduce open source BPM and workflow products - a move that will worry many young and established suppliers.

Specialists or mainstream? Forrester picks sides

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Almost everyone acknowledges that web services and XML technologies are not yet fully mature. Often deployments need specialist technologies to "fill in the gaps" in the standards. So many organisations face a dilemma: whether to use bridging technology from specialists, who may have no real track record and potentially no future, or curtail development while mainstream vendors catch up. Fortunately, analyst group Forrester Research has just published its advice for organisations that are unsure of which direction to pick.

Factions form around management standards

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Another web services standard, another fight. Fresh from the end of the recent end of hostilities around WS-Addressing, the industry seemingly has taken a step backwards and introduced strife where once there was harmony: WS-Distributed Management. But this new war is actually an emerging political tactic the industry is using to settle disputes more constructively than before.