Amazon Web Services has announced the beta availability of new mobile software development kits for the Android and iOS platforms. It was previously possible to write apps for those devices that could work with the Amazon cloud, but it wasn’t easy. Now, though, developers can call AW...

A picture is worth a thousand words. We all have heard this saying a countless number of times. But what if you don’t understand what is drawn in the picture? I was approached once with a request to review requirements specifications for some module. The document contained a scheme tha...

Since Web 2.0 kicked off scarcely a day goes by without a headline targeting mashups and their enablers, AJAX and Web Services, as the next hot Web technologies. Mashups are Web sites that integrate a variety of services (e.g., news feeds, weather reports, maps, and traffic conditions)...

You may be wondering, why hasn't the uptake of Web services matched the bold predictions made when it was first launched? There are certainly more developers thinking about Web services with the advent of service-oriented architectures (SOA). However, the number of successful public We...

In my previous article, 'Enterprise Mashup Services: Real-World SOA or Web 2.0 Novelties?' (JDJ Vol. 11, Issue 12), I discussed how a Java-to-AJAX library such as Direct Web Remoting (DWR) can bridge the gap between mashup services implemented with JavaScript and business services writ...

One of the great things about the Java programming language is the Open Source community that provides great applications at little or no cost. An example of this is Apache Tomcat, which provides a solid Web server for development using servlet or JSP technology. Now that Web Service t...

The creation and popularity of Web Services are growing rapidly in every industry. With this continued growth, more and more programmers find themselves writing code that, even if it's not currently packaged as a Web Service, will eventually be exposed as one.

To meet the growing need for web services security, Parasoft has introduced SOAPtest 4.0, which the company contends is 'the first product to offer penetration testing as an integrated component of a comprehensive, automated Web services testing suite.' SOAPtest 4.0 introduces automate...

If you're reading this at the Web Services Edge 2005 East Conference, you're probably having a great time. If, on the other hand, it's before February 15th, you might still have time to get to Boston and attend. For anyone interested in Web services or XML, this conference will be big.

The first upgrade in almost two years, Sun Microsystems has released its latest version of the company's application server. This offering from Sun is something developers have been longing for, Java-centric developers in particular.

Sun Microsystems has announced the newest version of the Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP). The new Java WSDP version 1.4 helps enable developers to more rapidly build and deploy secure and interoperable Web services.

How J2EE Connector Architecture and JTA specifications can be implemented to build such an adapter, XAFileConnector.

You may have to dig beneath the hype a little, but at any gathering of 40 Java vendors there's bound to be some treasure buried in there somewhere. It's just waiting for you to find it.

If you weren't there, a couple of years from now you'll misremember and say you were. That's how big - how momentous - Web Services Edge 2001 West and XMLEdge were. Call that late October conference in Santa Clara the Woodstock of Web services because this is the one everyone wishes th...

If you search under Web services in Yahoo! the results include religious supplies and services, translation services, adult entertainment, and Internet services; however, that's all about to change. Web services are going to be the next great thing.

Web services are the 'new kids on the block' and as with all adolescent technologies they are can be a little troublesome, take time to understand and always testing you with something new. Given this, how does a developer get started with Web services? And for those more experienced, ...

Common Object Request Broker Architecture and Java are among the newest emerging technologies revolving around IP and Internet applications. The CORBA specification defines an industry-wide standard infrastructure that simplifies the integration of software systems using object-oriente...

Many people consider Push an application specifically for the Internet. In fact, there is a growing number of corporations using Push as an Intranet application at the departmental level as well as corporation-wide. The Forrester Group predicts that by the year 2000, the enterprise mar...