Welcome to Web Services
Welcome to the newest addition to WebSphere Developer's Journal. This column is devoted to the subject of Web services within the WebSphere family of products.read more
View ArticleFrom Desktop to Server: Speech Recognition Moves Upstream
Speech recognition is the process by which computer-based software converts audible voice into digital text. When you think of computer-based speech recognition, most people picture someone sitting at...
View ArticleDeveloping Web Services with WebSphere Studio
So you've heard all about how great Web services are and how they are revolutionizing the way distributed systems are being developed. You've read all about how this new set of standards is changing...
View ArticleWebSphere Portal Mobile Access Portlets for WAP Devices
IBM's WebSphere Portal currently supports mobile devices by generating portal pages in three markup languages: HTML for desktop computers and some PDAs, WML for WAP devices, and cHTML for devices in...
View ArticleWebSphere Portal 4.1 and Web Services: Local portlets and remote portlet Web...
Portals provide personalized access to information, applications, processes, and people. Typically, portals get information from local or remote data sources such as databases, transaction systems,...
View ArticleDeveloping Web Services with WebSphere Studio
In my last article (WSDJ, Vol. 1, issue 4) I showed you how to use WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) to develop and publish a Web service. You saw how to use the Web services wizard to wrap...
View ArticleCreating Message-Based Web Services with WebSphere Studio Application...
WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) includes support for developing SOAP-based Web services. For example, the WSAD Web Services wizard allows you to turn a JavaBean into a SOAP RPC-based Web...
View ArticleBuilding DB2-Based Web Services Using WebSphere: Part 1
I've been involved with Web services for more than a year now. After the initial fascination and learning curve that are part of any new technology comes the part where you roll up your sleeves and...
View ArticleCreating Message-Based Web Services with WebSphere Studio Application...
Part 1 of this article (WSDJ, Vol.1, issue 7) showed how to create and use SOAP message-based Web services in WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD). The standard behavior of such services is...
View ArticleBuilding DB2-Based Web Services Using WebSphere, Part 2
In my previous article (WSDJ, Vol. 1, issue 7), I gave you a glimpse of the Web Services Object Runtime Framework (WORF), a set of tools for implementing Web services with DB2 and WebSphere. WORF is...
View ArticleWeb Services: A Practical Approach
Web services, designed primarily for companies to leverage their business services to a global market, also has value and benefits for companies at the enterprise level. Even if you choose to postpone...
View ArticleKey Challenges and Solutions
The explosion of Web services has spawned significant new challenges for IT operations and the technologies they use. As the infrastructure requirements for WebSphere applications continue to get more...
View ArticleManaging Change in WebSphere Studio Application Development
Web services initiatives are expected to change the very nature of computing and of application development. While Web services projects may not be fully realized today, many organizations are...
View ArticleAutomating Business Processes with WSFL and BPEL4WS
As we strive to add more value to the business as computing professionals, the marriage of business processes and Web services provides opportunities to get closer to our business colleagues. The...
View ArticleWeb Services Development with WSAD 5.0
WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) version 5.0 is the latest version of IBM's J2EE e-business application development tool. WSAD supports all phases of Web service development: the initial...
View ArticleWeb Services Standards
If you follow the latest trends in the software industry, you will have noticed that Web services technology is getting a lot of attention. While it is not a completely new thing anymore, more...
View ArticleCreating Web Services from Stored Procedures Using WebSphere Studio
Web services are no longer a new concept. They are rapidly gaining acceptance and use in the development of e-business applications. By now, the benefits of using Web services are clear: they provide a...
View ArticleWeb Services Invocation Framework
Today's most popular Web services APIs - JAX-RPC and JAXM - support two very different programming models for invocation of Web services, one synchronous, one asynchronous. If users need both models in...
View ArticleWeb Services Invocation Framework, part 2
The Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) is an architecture and programming model that - unlike today's most popular Web services APIs, JAX-RPC and JAXM - supports RPC and messaging invocation of...
View ArticlePerformance Best Practices for Using WAS Web Services
Web services performance comes of age in WebSphere Application Server (WAS) version 5.0.2, but just as with more traditional J2EE applications, the performance of Web services applications is largely...
View ArticleBreathing New Life into Legacy Systems - Web services as an API
The technology world is abuzz with talk of Web services. Code warriors and suits alike are touting it as the next big thing. The incorruptible Apache Software Foundation has spawned a whole top-level...
View ArticleUDDI and User-Defined Taxonomies
UDDI allows providers to publish information about their services in a common registry. A key part of this process is to describe services in an accurate and consistent way so potential users can...
View ArticlePerformance Testing Web Services
The successful development of scalable Web services on WebSphere (or any other application server) requires thorough performance testing. Applying a well-designed, consistent performance testing...
View ArticleExchanging Trade Information Among Mercosul Member Countries
Mercosul (or Mercosur) is a trading zone among Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay founded in 1991. Its purpose is to promote free trade and the movement of goods and people, and skills and money...
View ArticlePlug-and-Play Remote Portlets
Portlets constitute interactive Web application components whose presentation markup is aggregated and displayed by a portal server like WebSphere Portal. In a previous WebSphere Journal article, we...
View ArticleFrom Blueprint to Skyscraper
As many people correctly predicted, Web services and their corresponding service-oriented architecture (SOA) have proven their promise. Companies and businesses are starting to not only integrate new...
View ArticleDevelop Web Services Clients
Interoperability is the key to using Web services architecture since many applications can collaborate to maximize business functions. With the capability of creating an application on a different...
View ArticleWebSphere First Look: Introducing IBM Workplace Designer 2.5
This article will introduce you to Workplace Designer 2.5. We begin with a brief overview of Workplace Designer and how you can use it to create Workplace applications. We then take a closer look at...
View ArticleSOA Programming Model for Implementing Web Services
Securing access to information is basic to any application. Security becomes even more critical for implementations structured according to SOA principles due to their loose coupling of services and...
View ArticleThe EJB Advocate: SOA Applications Using Java EE
In each column, The EJB Advocate presents the gist of a typical back-and-forth dialogue exchange with actual customers and developers in the course of recommending a solution to an interesting design...
View ArticleMyEclipse 6.5 Blue Edition: Next-Generation ALM and Open Source Development...
Genuitec announced the availability of MyEclipse 6.5 Blue Edition; a next-generation ALM and open source-friendly IDE for WebSphere. Of note, users will be drawn to multiple technologies not currently...
View ArticleTwo SOA Projects That Can Pay For Themselves in Six Months
Service oriented architecture (SOA) could revolutionize the way we think about IT. Why is that possible? Because SOA finally has the potential to make the concept of reuse real. Companies have been...
View Article5GL PaaS
The debate has raged for some time now about the exact definition of a 5GL. One might argue that there also is still some debate going on about what exactly is a Platform as a Service PaaS. Throw...
View ArticleExploring Cloud Deployment Models in IBM Workload Deployer
One of the fundamental tenants of IBM Workload Deployer is a choice of cloud deployment models. Starting in v3.0, users will be able to deploy to the cloud using virtual appliances (OVA files), virtual...
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