AS WEB SERVICES move from promise to reality, developers need tools that can help them decrease the technology ramp-up time and speed up deployment to keep costs in check. A new development framework ...

The concept of processing data via programs available on the Web in open, text-based standards is growing in popularity. Modular, able to run on the existing Web architecture, and often cost-efficient ...

Although most of the Web services examples in tutorials and books are green-field developments — that is, started from scratch with little or no concern for legacy systems — that is not a likely ...

As a single, easy-to-use entry point for employees, customers and business partners, portals have proved to be effective, if somewhat limited in their capabilities. Linking back-end applications to a ...

The Web and XML have changed our perspective about what data can do. Instead of regarding data as something to be stored in a database and shuttled across existing networks by systems locked in a ...

Sun Microsystems President and COO Jonathan Schwartz discussed partner opportunities around open-source technology, Web services, service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and Java Business Integration ...