Web services start-up gives Axis support
News Some of the technical minds behind Web services protocols have launched an open source services company, pulling in fellow open source company Covalent Technologies as an investor. Axis is often used in combination with the open source Tomcat...
[August 3, 2005, 10:10]
Web services security spec ready for deployment
News A much anticipated Web services specification has been approved as an industry standard, paving the way for broader usage of Web services protocols in mainstream business applications. Web services protocols use XML to make it easier to share data...
[April 8, 2004, 10:05]
Web services to weave devices together
News Microsoft and Intel are backing a standardisation effort to connect all manner of devices, from computer peripherals to consumer electronics, using Web services protocols. The companies said WS-Discovery is intended to work with existing Web...
[February 18, 2004, 10:35]
Code Generation Techniques for Developing Light-Weight XML Web Services for Embedded Devices
White Papers The system supports the industry-standard XML-based Web services protocols that are intended to deliver universal access to any networked application that supports XML. With the standardization of the Web services protocols and the availability of...
[November 4, 2008, 0:01]
Gov't web monitoring plans unworkable, warns Linx
News The dynamic nature of web protocols would make the interception of web traffic for the entirety of the UK impractical, Linx's head of public affairs, Malcolm Hutty, told ZDNet UK. Web-based protocols can change without notice," Hutty said.
[August 4, 2009, 15:55]
SSL VPN Gateways: Delivering Superior ROI With Integrated Security
White Papers SSL VPNs access the network level, not only Web applications, which are why network-level security becomes a concern beyond the Web for protocols such as FTP, DNS, MSFT file shares, etc. These are protocols that now are at the mercy of viruses...
[January 4, 2006, 0:01]
Sun's a late riser on WS-I board
News The term Web services describes a series of XML-based protocols and a method for writing programs that can easily exchange information across disparate systems. The WS-I has already published a draft profile for adhering to the basic Web services...
[March 26, 2003, 17:06]
Microsoft's open source mind shift
News In the case of Web services, having a pledge not to assert patents around these protocols — which are the communications foundation of Vista, the next version of Windows due early next year — helps drive adoption of those standards in the...
[September 15, 2006, 14:20]
XP flaw allows for DoS attacks
News An attacker could remotely exploit the problem to crash a victim's PC, according to a posting on the Security Protocols Web site earlier this week. According to the Security Protocols Web site, Microsoft was informed of the problem on 4 May and...
[July 18, 2005, 9:15]
New Web services tools look to security
News Web services is the name given to many Web-based standards and protocols designed to let companies connect disparate applications and share data, either among their own units or with outside partners and suppliers.
[November 6, 2002, 10:18]
Web standards body finalises anti-patent policy
News In announcing the policy, W3C director Tim Berners-Lee hearkened back to the donation in 1993 of the founding protocols of the Web by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), his then-employer.
[May 22, 2003, 7:46]
Group aims to strengthen Web services
News WS-Reliability builds on top of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), one of the fundamental Web services protocols that defines how XML (Extensible Markup Language) documents are transported over a network.
[January 9, 2003, 8:26]
Experts: Gov't web-monitoring plan is unworkable
News The problem is made more complex by the blurring of boundaries in web communications between traffic data and content, and by the number of protocols used. Not only are a multiplicity of web protocols used by different companies, Sommer said, but...
[June 18, 2009, 12:34]
Findings From the 'Information Security and Privacy' Group: Convergence of Liberty and WS-Federation Must Become a Reality
White Papers Even though SAML 2.0 has achieved significant penetration in the federated identity area, convergence of the protocols for handling SAML and other tokens is a requirement. The multiplicity of token formats is complex enough without the added...
[October 5, 2009, 0:00]
AOL: We'll block Tribal Voice, too
News But in the wake of a very public battle with Microsoft over instant messaging, AOL has since removed links to those protocols from its Web site. Tribal Voice said it will use protocols AOL had published earlier this year to let developers of Unix...
[September 8, 1999, 8:50]
Commerce One patent sale has Google worried
News The protocols, also known as Web services, are in wide use today. The patents cover technical protocols that underlie popular methods for exchanging business documents over the Internet. The upcoming auction of dozens of key Web services patents in...
[November 25, 2004, 8:05]
Key factors for secure Web services
News Instead of any one authentication method moving to the forefront, Awalt said the current trend is for the adoption of Web services protocols that would support the infrastructures and protocols of existing systems.
[November 19, 2002, 9:49]
Indigo Community Technology Preview released
News The goal of Indigo is to simplify the process of building distributed applications, where software components communicate across a network using Web services protocols. The software will use a number of the more recent Web services protocols...
[March 16, 2005, 17:05]
Netil accelerates Web services
News Netli said it uses its own specialised protocols and a hardware device installed with customers to reduce the network traffic delays caused by Internet protocols. Netli, which aims to help speed up the performance of business applications on the...
[July 19, 2005, 9:55]
W3C unveils outlook on Web services
News The core protocols for Web Services -- XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI -- are an elegant foursome that can be leveraged to great advantage," Berk said. At the same time, I sometimes wonder whether we're over-abstracting our use of what are, at core...
[June 7, 2002, 11:16]



