Access Directories Through Firewalls With DSMLv2 and DSfW
- Microsoft Directory Services for Windows (DSfW) beta 1.0 is a SOAP 1.1 implementation of Directory Services Markup Language version 2 (DXMLv2) for the .NET Framework. Give the ASP.NET DSMLv2 consumer a test drive at http://www.oakleaf.ws/dsmlasp/. -
(Added: 14-Sep-2002) (Rate It)
Advancing the Web services stack
- In this article, Judith M. Myerson demonstrates how new standards, particularly Web Services Experience Language (WSXL), Trading Partner Agreement (TPA), WS-Security, and WS-Inspection, can serve as updates to the architecture. -
(Added: 23-Jun-2002) (Rate It)
Best practices for Web services: Back to the basics, Part 1
- This article begins a series that will address the building blocks of Web services, applicable business scenarios, and best practice methods for embracing Web services by business and IT professionals. -
(Added: 5-Nov-2002) (Rate It)
Best practices for Web services: Back to the basics, Part 1
- This article begins a series that will address the building blocks of Web services, applicable business scenarios, and best practice methods for embracing Web services by business and IT professionals. Our first task is to go back to basics to lay out a vernacular that will provide clarity to our discussions. -
(Added: 28-Sep-2002) (Rate It)
Brother, Can You Spare a DIME?
- This month we look at Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME), a binary message format; and we'll also look briefly at the WS-Attachments specification, which provides a generic framework for SOAP attachments, and a definition for a DIME-based instantiation of that framework. -
(Added: 21-Sep-2002) (Rate It)
Compare Web Service Security Metrics
- Do WS-Security's granular X.509 digital signatures and X.509 encryption justify certificate management and performance problems? Find out how the Microsoft WSDK X.509 implementation's network traffic and execution times compare with client-side HTTPS/SSL 3.0 encryption. Download a Visual Basic .NET Windows form client and a set of XML Web services to test execution time of local and remote services. The ASP.NET clone of the project is at http://www.oakleaf.ws/WsdkX509ClientASP/. -
(Added: 17-Oct-2002) (Rate It)
Conversational Support for Web Services
- this article, you'll learn about Conversation Support for Web Services (CS-WS), an experimental technology from IBM's alphaWorks. You'll learn how conversations can hide the implementation details involved with collecting multiple Web services into real-life business exchanges. -
(Added: 5-Nov-2002) (Rate It)
Deliver SQL Data As Web Services
- Repurpose your SQL Server stored procedures and user-defined functions as XML Web services so IT administrators and DBAs can focus on business data instead of delivery technicalities. -
(Added: 1-Apr-2003) (Rate It)
Dig Into WS-Security with the WSDK Technical Preview
- Learn how to sign and encrypt SOAP response messages with this Visual Basic .NET client and set of customized Web services. Give the ASP.NET version of the Windows form client a try at http://www.oakleaf.ws/WSDKSecClientASP/. -
(Added: 13-Oct-2002) (Rate It)
Do-It-All Web Services? Reality Check, Please
- We have a problem with our industry. Every new technology that comes along is heralded as a "silver bullet." This is particularly true of new development technologies such as Microsoft's .NET framework and Sun's recently announced ONE initiative. -
(Added: 19-May-2002) (Rate It)
Dynamic Web Services
- The new
enterprise architecture is one that is service-based, implemented on
top of a fully distributed, peer-to-peer, event-driven system. A
services operating platform (SOP) allows enterprises to create a
unified computing infrastructure. -
(Added: 16-May-2003) (Rate It)
Enterprise Resource Planning and Web Services
- Every major technology goes through a series of revolutions or "waves" with each wave building upon the generation before it, and ERP is no exception. -
(Added: 19-May-2002) (Rate It)
Examining WSDL
- Rich Salz discusses the state of WSDL, with particular reference to the new Google web services API. -
(Added: 19-May-2002) (Rate It)
Extending your SOA with Commercial Web Services
- To react faster to ever changing market dynamics, companies need to reconsider how they extend their SOA implementations and internal applications to integrate external data and functionality.
Commercially available XML Web services can address these issues by providing plug-and-play functionality to access real-time, on-demand data and functionality. -
(Added: 25-Apr-2006) (Rate It)
First look at the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0
- The Web Services Basic Profile 1.0 released by the Web Services Interoperability group represents an important milestone for the technology as a published description of what standards and technologies will be required for interoperability between Web services implementations on different software and operating system platforms. -
(Added: 5-Nov-2002) (Rate It)
Generate Web Services from Stored Procedures with SQLXML 3.0
- This article shows you how to take advantage of SQLXML 3.0's new capabilities, such as delivering strongly-typed DataSets to populate DataGrids. It also includes the source code for a Visual Basic .NET Windows form consumer of sample Web services from the OakLeaf Web site. Give the ASP.NET Web form version a test drive at http://www.oakleaf.ws/SQLXML3/. -
(Added: 11-Jun-2002) (Rate It)
Make Sense of Web Service Discovery - DISCO and WSIL
- The "Find Web Services on Local Machine" link on the Add Web Reference dialog is missing from Visual Studio .NET RTM. But DISCO isn't gone; it's hibernating. Learn how to re-enable DISCO searches with a simple change to your machine.config file. Get ready for DISCO's replacement, WS-Inspection, with C# projects that create .wsil files. Examples are from http://www.oakleaf.ws. -
(Added: 28-Jun-2002) (Rate It)
Orchestrating Web Services
- Using Web services technologies as implemented in software platforms and special-purpose products, enterprise developers and even business analysts can now "orchestrate" component services from disparate sources into complex applications. -
(Added: 15-Jun-2002) (Rate It)
Overview of Web Services Standards
- If you're looking to develop applications in the nascent field of Web services, first you have to sort out all the standards. -
(Added: 29-May-2002) (Rate It)
Processing SOAP Headers
- In this month's column we'll look at how SOAP headers can be used to talk to an intermediate server that adds value to the basic search service. -
(Added: 17-Jul-2002) (Rate It)
Reap the benefits of document style Web services
- While most Web services are built around remote procedure calls, the WSDL specification allows for another kind of Web services architecture: document style, in which whole documents are exchanged between service clients and servers. In this article, James McCarthy explains what document style is and when you should use it. -
(Added: 1-Dec-2002) (Rate It)
RPC/Literal and Freedom of Choice
- See why the SOAP messaging format you use for your Web service doesn't necessarily determine the programming model you use. Learn more about SOAP messaging formats and decoupling the message format from the programming model. -
(Added: 15-Apr-2003) (Rate It)
Second Generation Web Service
- This next generation of web services will likely adhere to an architectural style called REST, the underlying architectural model of the current Web. -
(Added: 19-May-2002) (Rate It)
SOAP White Papers
- A list of white papers pertaining SOAP and web services. -
(Added: 29-May-2002) (Rate It)
Stress-Test Web Services With ACT
- Use Visual Studio .NET Enterprise and Architect editions' Application Center Test (ACT) to simplify multiclient load testing of XML Web services and ASP.NET Web forms by recording and replaying browser requests. Examples execute live XML Web services from http://www.oakleaf.ws. -
(Added: 2-Jul-2002) (Rate It)
The Programmable Web
- This article defines Web Services and the key enabling technologies that ensure services can be aggregated into applications. -
(Added: 29-May-2002) (Rate It)
The Pros and Cons of Web Services
- The Pros and Cons of Web Services provides a complete definition of Web Services, and then discusses both the advantages and disadvantages of Web Services in a balanced manner. -
(Added: 15-Jun-2002) (Rate It)
UML for Web Services
- The
author shows in detail how web service applications can be designed
with UML. -
(Added: 8-Aug-2003) (Rate It)
Understanding Service-Oriented Architecture
- Gives a concise explanation of service-oriented architecture, what it is, and how it affects what architects, CIOs, project managers, business analysts, and lead developers do. -
(Added: 30-Jun-2004) (Rate It)
