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 ...

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 ...

Even the title of the seminar,"Web Services: Another Serving of Hype, Or Something That You Should Care About?",explains the problem. "It's not when, but how. It all depends on what you want to do," ...

The ultimate acceptance of next-generation Web services technologies in the enterprise hinges on their ease of adoption and solid performance. Moreover, developers will require timesaving tools that ...

Software maker Iona Technologies will seek to do an end run around Java application server companies with the release next year of a software integration server built around Web services technology.

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 ...

This year has seen a bit of flip between last year's first- and second-place winners for Best Middleware/Web Services Providers. Driven by the regulatory demands of Sarbanes-Oxley, the USA Patriot Act ...