Web Services: Benefits, Challenges, and a Unique, Visual Development Solution
[ Source: Altova ]
January 2008-
Using Altova XMLSpy 2006 and MapForce 2006 together, one can create Web services from start to finish in a visual manner. This speeds development and reduces the occurrence of errors that may be introduced by manual coding. By creating a WSDL file in XMLSpy, then building the corresponding Web service and generating program code in MapForce, and creating and testing SOAP messages in XMLSpy, one can effectively build a complete Web service without having to ....
Web Services Testing: A Primer
[ Source: AppLabs Technologies ]
January 2008-
DCOM and CORBA traditionally achieved what web services are now offering but with an exception to interoperability, which they later provide in a true sense. In addition, COM+, DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) implementations from Microsoft were resource-intensive and were native to a specific Microsoft OS flavor. In other words, the consumer and provider were mandated to be on the same version of the OS. CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) was Object Management Group’s ....
Social Project Management or Project Management 2.0?
[ Source: Wrike Inc ]
May 2008-
Project management topic is a hot topic nowadays. Why? Probably one of the reasons is that this part of the management science is undergoing significant changes due to the introduction of the new technologies for managing project teams. People are using blogs, wikis and collaboration planning tools to work on projects together. How do these tools influence contemporary project management? Do traditional project management practices need to be improved? To answer these questions let's take ....
Aflac Japan Trims IT Management Costs, Slashes Development Cycle, and Boosts Application Performance with Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Solution
[ Source: Nexaweb ]
May 2007-
Aflac Japan is the leading life insurance company in the Japanese market, insuring one in four Japanese households, and is represented by 8,000 agents, making it the country's largest foreign insurer in terms of premium income. Using Nexaweb's Enterprise Web Suite, Aflac Japan has deployed a comprehensive Web-based Insurance Premium Calculation System (IPCS) that combines legacy inquiry, Internet-mediated and stand-alone applications. The IPCS runs in any client environment, including desktops in the office, mobile and ....
Nexaweb Advance: End-to-End Application Modernization
[ Source: Nexaweb ]
March 2008-
Legacy applications built with technologies like PowerBuilder, ColdFusion (v5 and older) Oracle Forms, COBOL and Visual Basic are costing enterprises millions to maintain, and more to upgrade. Modernizing these systems to fully functional Web applications, however, is not as simple as adding flashy UIs and deploying them in a browser. It requires well-designed procedures to transform the legacy code to a common language, and utilize that data and business logic to deploy highly-functional, interactive applications ....
Top 5 Myths of Screen Scraping
[ Source: Seagull Software ]
June 2008-
Many organizations with mainframe, System i or OpenVMS applications still ask their employees to use green-screen (or text-based) user interfaces to work with essential business information. Green-screens are a business problem and a technology problem. They're unappealing, hard to learn, intimidating, and accessible only with terminal emulation software. They’re also incompatible with modern application integration methods like Web services and SOA.
The appeal of screen-scraping is understandable — it's simple and inexpensive. But many ....
SOA for EAI
[ Source: Wipro Technologies ]
July 2008-
SOA with web services combination gives the agile power with flexibility to address the issues and challenges faced in the Enterprise application integration (EAI) world.
SOA Alignment in eForms Architecture
[ Source: Wipro Technologies ]
July 2008-
IBM Lotus Forms provides high performance with intelligent document and business process rules in enterprise. Web services and XML schemas enhance the process automation. This places IBM Lotus Forms in alignment to SOA. Implementation of SOA and increasing the ROI creates a vital impact on business, IBM Lotus Forms position in this.
The State of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Exclusive Research
[ Source: Transformation Enablers ]
August 2008-
Organizations are using SOA to speed application development and facilitate business process optimization plans, according to a new TechWeb survey. In these early days of SOA deployments, most companies are satisfied with their progress—but only about one-quarter rate their success as "exceptional."
SOA and Web Services: The Performance Paradox
[ Source: CA ]
August 2007-
Loosely-coupled service environments provide unique benefits to the organizations that utilize them, while at the same time, they introduce new challenges. See how IT teams — operations, application support, architects and developers — gain control over complex, composite applications upon which so much business depends. Read this white paper on SOA and Web Services for more in-depth information.