Testing Web services is a tricky task because of the currently limited choice of tools. In an effort to fill the gap the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), an open industry effort set ...

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) announced on Tuesday publication of its WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0 , serving as a guide for enabling secure, interoperable Web services. The ...

In reporting a story on an early adopter of Web services, I spoke to the CTO, who noted that there really isn’t a growth path for Web services. The oft-mentioned Web services standards — SOAP (Simple ...

Vendors including IBM and Oracle are launching an industry organization Monday for Web services interoperability, despite the existence of another Web services interoperability group with many of the ...

Looking to find the Holy Grail of low-cost, easy interoperability for data and applications, the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) on Tuesday is set to release its Basic Profile 1.0 ...

COMMENTARY--The Web Services Interoperability Organization, a consortium formed by several major information-technology vendors, seeks to address an essential issue surrounding Web services: the ...

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The vendors,along with 50 other companies including Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, BEA Systems, Accenture, SAP, Compaq Computer and Intel,last week formed the Web Services Interoperability Organization ...

The next version of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition will fully support guidelines being promoted by the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) to ensure that applications will work with one ...

The guidelines, published Tuesday by the WS-I, are known as Basic Profile 1.0 and define how developers should implement key Web services specifications such as XML and SOAP. The Web services ...

Web services represent a profound change in the way people and businesses use and experience software. So it comes as no surprise that the major platform vendors--Microsoft, IBM, Sun Microsystems and ...

IBM and Sun Microsystems on Tuesday continued their battle for Web services developers by releasing a batch of tools and new technologies. IBM said it will offer a new starter kit that will allow ...