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Sun shines on Web services spec
News Sun, Oracle, Iona Technologies, Fujitsu Software and Arjuna Technologies will submit the specifications, the Web Services Composite Applications Framework (WS-CAF), to either the World Wide Web Consortium or the Organisation for the Advancement of...
[July 28, 2003, 16:24]
Sun and Microsoft ally over Web standard
News The proposed WS-Addressing specification was submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, the Web's main standards body, which is expected to form a working group to study and eventually publish the specification.
[August 11, 2004, 8:50]
IBM unveils Websphere 6
News It claims that the version has improved availability and ease of deployment, and includes support for various Java and Web Services standards. The next version of Websphere contains support for various Java and Web Services standards, including the...
[October 6, 2004, 8:55]
Opera: Single-minded about widget development
News Opera has become heavily involved in the development of standards for widgets — the lightweight, web-based applications that are starting to become prevalent on new handsets. This is a group where we were basically looking at web standards.
[May 21, 2009, 17:19]
Liberty Alliance seeks open-source adoption
News The industry organisation has created the "OpenLiberty Project" to provide tools and information for developing applications that use the Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services standards, it announced on Monday at the "Liberty 2.0" event in...
[January 23, 2007, 9:40]
Oasis to create an XML security standard
News The Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or Oasis, on Wednesday announced the formation of the Web Application Security (WAS) technical committee, which will develop a model and a data format for describing...
[May 28, 2003, 15:56]
Trusted Web Service
White Papers TWS leverages existing standards whenever possible and suggests a better security model for Web Services. At the lower tier, TWS uses the Trusted Network Connect (TNC) standards to measure, encrypt, and transfer the measurement data (such as the...
[March 9, 2007, 0:00]
Can the URL be improved?
News An international standards body announced on Wednesday that it has taken on the task of improving on the omnipresent URL, or Web address, to give developers a cleaner way to design and locate Web services.
[January 9, 2003, 9:04]
Web Services Security for WSRP OracleAS Portal 10.1.4
White Papers This white paper describes how to secure access to JSR 168 standards-based WSRP v1 portlets from OracleAS Portal 10.1.4.1. The WSRP specification explicitly defers to other security standards for secure identity propagation.
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
Service Oriented Architectures for Grid Computing Environments: Opportunities and Challenges
White Papers While Grid computing offers a way of distributing the system resources dynamically, SOA provides open standards based Web services for its users to discover and use available resources across the system.
[May 8, 2009, 4:20]
Apple takes Safari to Windows and iPhone
News The pitch is that developers can create web applications using Web 2.0 standards such as Ajax that will work just as well as applications that Apple has written natively for the iPhone. Safari will also allow web developers to create applications...
[June 12, 2007, 8:27]
Fast browser with excellent features
Member Review I'm a web developer and was very happy to see that Firefox supported most of the web standards perfectly. IE makes its own standards and ruins my coding. Life would be much easier if I could code using standards without sticking to the crappy IE...
[November 23, 2004, 14:36]
Security holds back Web services
News Last week industry pundits claimed that the submission of the latest version of the Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification to international standards body Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) was...
[July 11, 2002, 9:08]
Doubt cast over Web standard's ownership
News The RDF standard has been endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium, which evaluates and recommends standards for Web technologies. It's currently debating a new policy that would allow the use of patented technologies in those standards and permit...
[January 4, 2002, 9:38]
New Passport privacy tied to IE 6
News The standard is advocated by the World Wide Web Consortium, a Web standards body, and was adopted by Microsoft in June for use in its software. P3P is "a good thing, because it establishes a set of standards and guidelines vendors have to comply...
[August 10, 2001, 8:58]
Enabling Web Service Extensions for Scientific Workflows
White Papers However orchestration of complex workflows that involve services that exploit standards like WS-Addressing or WS-Security are not easily managed by these tools. Most complex use cases that involve "Add on" service standards use implementation...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Country codes 'will stay free'
News The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) announced that it had no plans to start charging for the use of the codes, an idea that had riled other standards organisations including the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Internet...
[October 1, 2003, 8:50]
Novell emphasises open-source commitment
News Company executives also underscored Novell's commitment to incorporating Web services standards within its products, including the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) standard for locating Web services on a network.
[April 16, 2003, 10:19]
Web services mean consultants must evolve
News The note, from research firm ZapThink, says that with the appearance of more applications based on Web services -- a programming method and set of standards specifically designed to link disparate systems -- services companies will start shifting...
[May 27, 2003, 10:51]
Patent holders on the ropes
News After 14 months of wrangling over a proposed exception to its royalty-free policy, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Web's most influential standards group, this month repudiated the use of royalty-encumbered technologies in its...
[December 3, 2002, 10:31]
