Dale Fuller

Web services are already changing the integration model for enterprise applications, and they offer even greater promise for the future. It's not going to happen overnight, but there is an ever-increasing focus on incorporating Web services into new applications and existing infrastructure in order to achieve standards-based information exchange. This expanding universe of Web services will allow not just J2EE applications, but all applications, to interact and exchange information freely, and permit development to proceed unencumbered by proprietary communications constraints. Both J2EE and the Microsoft .NET framework have pushed the edge of the Web services envelope. Both platforms have already adopted Web services as their future integration model, demonstrating that Web services will become even more widely accepted and soon emerge as the dominant integration m... (more)

Bright Future for J2EE Web Services Development

Web services are already changing the integration model for enterprise applications, and they offer even greater promise for the future. It's not going to happen overnight, but there is an ever increasing focus on incorporating Web services into new applications and existing infrastructure in order to achieve standards-based information exchange. This expanding universe of Web services will allow not just J2EE applications, but all applications, to interact and exchange information freely, and permit development to proceed unencumbered by proprietary communications constraints.... (more)