The authors are interning and/or working as part of the Web Services COE (Center of Excellence) for Infosys Technologies, a global IT consulting firm, and have substantial experience in publishing papers, presenting papers at conferences, and defining standards for SOA and Web services. The Web Services COE specializes in SOA, Web services, and other related technologies.
Web Service Description Language (WSDL) represents an IDL describing the contract between the service requestor and the service provider in much the same way that a Java interface represents a contract between client code and an actual Java object. The crucial difference is that WSDL i...Jun. 7, 2007 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 26,279 Replies: 2
Most organizations that have tried have been successful in implementing a pliable Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm. Analysts have come out with strategies to translate existing applications into SOA-compliant systems using a staggered approach. The rewards reaped come in th...
The open source initiatives have transformed the technical landscape by leaps and bounds in the past two decades. It has gone a long way toward breaking the stranglehold of monopolistic software companies over technologies. When programmers have the ability to read, redistribute, and m...
Web services are gaining acceptance as the prime technology used to interconnect disparate applications and ease interoperability between heterogeneous and autonomous systems both for internal and external integration. The variation of contexts in which shared Web services could be use...
