XML Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) are challenging the survival of traditional integration middleware vendors, contends Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink LLC ...

THE FUTURE OF WEB services in the enterprise lies not in hit-and-run applications such as stock quotes, ZIP code validation, and weather updates. Rather, Web services promises to take companies to the ...

Web services won’t be truly ready for enterprise prime time until the industry provides tools, standards and approaches for managing traffic and ensuring predictable end-to-end performance.

LOS ANGELES — As companies increase their use of Web services to integrate existing applications and build new ones, many are eyeing enterprise service bus (ESB) middleware technology to help reduce ...

The latest buzz term in tech circles is Web services, which - objectively speaking - is basically a type of middleware that lets disparate computing systems talk to one another over the Internet, both ...

Web services standards need to mature before SOA can really take off. Companies today can implement a limited form of SOA in traditional middleware environments, such as Common Object Request Broker ...

Galileo International Inc. is selling a Web services integrator to its customers. The Parsippany, N.J.-based subsidiary of Cendant Corp. said yesterday that it has developed middleware based on XML ...