A new lightweight web service interface for accessing massive amounts of life science research data across multiple public and private domains has been developed. The service provides a secure, ...

• reduce the amount of work it takes to accomplish integration (and thereby reduce cost and schedule), and • provide flexible interfaces between systems that won't “break” when one system or the other ...

Large companies hoping to secure their place in the Web services market have proposed a bevy of standards, such as the recently released Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS), ...

It’s a perfectly reasonable goal for a Web service toolkit and runtime engine: allow a developer to take a server interface, brand it a Web service, and automatically generate some client-side proxy ...

SAP SOA is now a mainstream architectural strategy being followed by SAP customers for providing future proof integration to SAP and non-SAP systems. However, customers are not clear on the SAP SOA ...

The units-conversion Web service, which I’ve named UC, consists of four functions for converting between centimeters and inches and between degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius. Although this ...

COMMENTARY--Once in a while a new technology comes along those promises to change the way the world does business. Lots of enthusiasm ensues. Some companies adopt the technology and completely alter ...