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Web services are rapidly emerging as the most practical approach for integrating a wide array of customer, vendor, and business-partner applications. While many companies have begun to deploy individual Web services, the real value will come when enterprises can connect services together, providing higher value to an organization. Early experience shows that to make the most of new Web services investments there must be a standard approach to Web services composition. IT organizations need the agility to adapt to customer requirements and changing market conditions. But existing business process languages do not directly support Web services standards and, as a result, IT organizations may be tempted to take a short-term approach and create their own proprietary protoco... (more)

Using XML Schemas Effectively in WSDL Design

Today, developers are beginning to develop more sophisticated Web services, exchanging complex XML documents rather than simple parameter types. As this shift takes place, development teams begin to grapple with different approaches to designing these web services interfaces. Luckily, there are a number of best practices available for designing web services with XML Schemas and WSDL. Fo... (more)

SOA Web Services XML: Why WSDM Matters

The world of IT management has changed a great deal since the early days of SNMP and network management. IT organizations today are building and deploying a wide range of systems and applications that must be managed in a consistent and reliable way. Applications are being built from the ground up using service-oriented design principles, and an IT manager can no longer look to a single ... (more)

Design Strategies for Web Services Versioning

Application versioning has always been a challenge for the developer community. With the introduction of Web services, this issue becomes even more difficult as developers are dealing with a more distributed set of components that aren't necessarily under their control. A robust versioning strategy is needed to support multiple versions of Web services in development. This can allow for u... (more)

Developing Web Services with Open Source - A quick start for Web services technology

Over the past year, Web services have been positioned as a key enabler to application e-business integration. Many companies and vendors have made large investments in supporting the Web services development process. However, cost can pose a huge barrier for companies just beginning to investigate the value of Web services. Development shops can explore this emerging technology without ma... (more)