Beth Barling, co-author of the report, 'Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce: Opening the Market,' says that next-generation EDI is heading for the Internet, either as an object-oriented language, or as a combined protocol with the eXtensible...
We asked two of the world's top tech thinkers to cast judgement on concepts seen in some well-known films. Film sequence: A universal language translator on starship bridge/uniforms enables Captain James T Kirk (William Shatner) or Jean-Luc Picard...
One of the largest companies already to have signed up with the venture is Lego - building-block favourite of all fledging (object oriented? Organisations, such as colleges, might want to publish a course guide, for instance, but allow student and...
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.
It advertises reuse, one of the claims of object oriented programming. We know, for example, that one of the biggest obstacles to reuse is nothing to do with software technology. We are now told that service oriented architecture (SOA) is an...
Think finance and insurance companies, major retail organisations and telecommunications companies - all of these are implementing SOA and have the same issues about needing to reuse existing investments, and avoid the 'silo' implementations of...