Companies have 'no immediate need' for the single directory framework for e-commerce One year after Hewlett-Packard began talks with IBM, Microsoft and Ariba to build a single directory framework for ...

Web services technology allows the communication between applications across the Internet over standard, XML-based protocols. The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) invokes a Web service, which can ...

Organizations that attempt to do business online quickly learn that there are lots of IT-related problems that others have already solved. Increasingly, those solutions are becoming readily available ...

An industry standard is a great idea -- every vendor should have one of its own. The industry has made some progress in getting vendors to line up behind standards, but vendors being vendors, they ...

UDDI is the Web services protocol designed to help discover service assets. The issue The Hartford faced was this: Using Web services, even SOAP-based over HTTP, would require a certain amount of ...

A Microsoft- and IBM-backed group that promotes the use of the emerging UDDI Web services specification announced Thursday that its members would start distributing test copies of the latest version ...

It’s been suggested to me that one reason why the Liberty Alliance is looking to “diversify” (see the last issue of this newsletter) is that it’s feeling some heat from the marketplace regarding the ...

One of the key challenges in web services is to programmatically find all services available on the web. Web services will loose the charm if one can’t discover the other’s service dynamically on the ...

Microsoft, IBM, and SAP are discontinuing the UDDI Business Registry (UBR) project for Web services on January 12, according to Web-based bulletins from the three companies. UDDI prescribes a ...

The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) protocol is one of the key pillars of Web Services provision. With UDDI, you announce to the world who you are and what sort of services ...