Understanding Web Services
- Web Services provide an application integration technology that can be successfully used over the Internet. -
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Understanding Web Services Management
- The emerging category of web services management software offers one solution that balances technical flexibility with business control. -
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Understanding Web Services Management
- although web services standards will help simplify many application integration challenges, this distributed architecture will also introduce new challenges for managing IT systems. -
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Understanding WS-Policy
- WS-Policy provides a general model and syntax for describing and communicating the policies of a Web service. Here's how it works. -
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Understanding WSDL in a UDDI registry
- The Web Services Description Language has a lot of versatility in its methods of use. In particular, WSDL can work with UDDI registries in several different ways depending upon the application needs. In this first of a three-part series, we will look at these different methods of using WSDL with UDDI registries. -
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Upgrade to Office XP Web Services Toolkit 2.0
- The Office XP Web Services Toolkit 2.0 implements new Microsoft SOAP Toolkit 3.0 features, but chokes on SQLXML 3.0's stored procedure services and some complex objects. This .NETInsight article describes workarounds for SQLXML and other limitations. -
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Use X.509 Certificates With the WSDK
- If Web service security tops your priority list, X.509 certs for user identification and authorization, non-repudiation, and payload encryption are de rigueur. -
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Using SOAP
- The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a hot topic these days. The technology itself is simple, as shown by Sander Duivestein in this article. But the implications of its use are very exciting. -
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Using Web Services Effectively
- This document describes guidelines for designing and implementing Web services on the JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.3 (J2EETM 1.3). -
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Using WSDL in SOAP applications
- Web Services Description Language (WDSL) is a new specification to describe networked XML-based services. It provides a simple way for service providers to describe the basic format of requests to their systems regardless of the underlying protocol or encoding. -
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Validate SOAP Messages with XSD Schema
- Learn how to use the XmlValidatingReader class to validate document/literal .NET XML Web services request and response messages. The downloadable sample ASP.NET Web service consumer project connects to the ReportsWS crosstab Web service at http://www.oakleaf.ws/ReportsWS/ReportsWS.asmx. The ASP.NET consuming client is live at http://www.oakleaf.ws/CTSchema/. -
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Versioning of Web Services
- In this article, we will define the common problem of versioning and attempt to find some solutions with respect to Web Services. -
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Versioning Options
- Scott Seely walks through the steps of implementing a new version of a Web service, showing how to add extra methods, change method signatures, and update the data model. -
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Web Service Pitfalls
- This article examines perhaps the most futuristic of web services, those offered by a standalone service provider. -
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Web Services architecture overview
- This article presents an overview of IBM Web Services architecture, including what Web Services are, the fundamental characteristics of a Web Services architecture and the benefits of this approach. -
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Web Services architecture overview
- This article presents an overview of IBM Web Services architecture, including what Web Services are, the fundamental characteristics of a Web Services architecture and the benefits of this approach. -
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Web Services Come of Age
- A variety of Web-hosted services are now available to developers. Soon you could find yourself using or writing one. -
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Web services dirty little secret
- Web services represent a profound change in the way people and businesses use and experience software. So it comes as no surprise that the major platform vendors have all jumped on the bandwagon in a big way. -
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Web Services Edged Forward
- The current best practice for securing Web services is to use a Web server's document access security mechanisms—namely, HTTPS for encryption and HTTP for basic user authentication. -
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Web services forge ahead, hack by hack
- In the interest of preserving its effectiveness and neutrality, SOAP Builders needs to retain its cooperative, grassroots character--and the WS-I should insulate it from inter-company rivalries. -
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Web Services Primer
- Introduction to Web services and the technologies they're built on. -
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Web services qualification
- In real use, Web services will sustain a complex ecology. This article explores mechanisms of qualifying Web services for initial selection and as part of the on-going provider/consumer relationship. -
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Web services will require application-level firewalls
- The rise of Web services will require the addition of application-level firewalls to protect against external attacks, as well as the effects of unintentionally malicious software being transferred between business partners. --Gartner -
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Web services: Beyond the hype
- Sutor simply believes Web services constitute a revolutionary advance that will fundamentally change the way companies conduct business over the Web. The potential is so great, he believes, that common self-interest will in the end trump narrow jealousie -
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Web services: Is it CORBA redux?
- Web services continues to enjoy a great deal of industry enthusiasm and attention, primarily for its perceived role in the future of application and partner integration. -
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What is Service-Oriented Architecture?
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style whose
goal is to achieve loose coupling among interacting software agents. -
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What Web Services Are NOT
- Although there is certainly some new technology here ( mainly directed towards standardization - you may have heard about Simple Object Access Protocol or SOAP, Web Services Definition Language or WSDL, and Universal Description, Discovery and Integration -
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What's new in SOAP 1.2
- This paper describes the differences between SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2, SOAP 1.2 being the results of the standardisation process. -
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Why Web Services?
- One of the coolest new features in ASP+ is the ease with which you can create Web Services. -
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WS-I Draft Disallows rpc/encoded Format
- Will the Web Service Interoperability Organization's draft of its first deliverable resolve fundamental Web service interoperability issues? Read this detailed analysis of the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 Draft and learn how conforming to the tentative interoperability "standard" will affect Microsoft SOAP Toolkit 3.0 and .NET Web service developers. -
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XML Web Service Caching Strategies
- In this At Your Service column, we will look at how you as a developer and consumer of XML Web services can utilize caching. -
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Xsd.exe Workarounds for Complex SOAP Documents
- Validating XML SOAP request and response documents against XSD schemas leads to greater Web service security with only a modest effect on client performance. Microsoft's Xsd.exe is a versatile tool for generating XML schema from sample XML files. Apply this article's Heimlich maneuvers when Xsd.exe chokes on large, complex XML SOAP response documents. Test-drive the ASP.NET version of the article's downloadable Visual Basic .NET Windows form project at http://www.oakleaf.ws/xsdgen/. -
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