Ash Parikh is responsible for driving Informatica's product strategy around SOA. Prior to joining Informatica, Ash drove product innovation and strategy at technology leaders such as Raining Data, Iopsis Software, BEA, Sun, and PeopleSoft. He is a well-published SOA and distributed computing expert and a regular presenter at leading industry events like OASIS Symposium, AJAXWorld, and JavaOne. He has written articles for journals such as DMReview, Business Integration Journal, XML Journal, JavaWorld, JavaPro, Web Services Journal, and ADT Mag, and has a standing column on Web Services in JavaWorld. He is also the co-chair of the SDForum Web Services SIG.
This is the first in a series of articles that will explore the realm of Web
services, the challenges that lie ahead, and advancements that enable
extending Web services to the real world.
Applications for real-world scenarios have significant dependencies on
development time and ROI and must be robust, platform neutral, and
performance sensitive. Most important, these scenarios need to be highly
flexible to changes in requirements and applicability. Web services are an
effective way to balance all these aspects of real-world applications and
provide a rich and extensible infrastructure for advanced topics such as J2ME
interaction, portals, business on the Web, choreography, and collaboration.
This article assumes that you have a basic understanding of Web services,
SOAP, and the J2ME platform.
Why Web Services Make Sense for Devices
As we know, Web services can be ... (more)
Portals are central points of access for applications and content for both
internal and external use in an enterprise through interactive and rich
presentation interfaces.
Personalized access to information, applications, processes, and people is
provided to portals by getting information from local or remote data sources
such as databases, transaction systems, content providers, or remote Web
sites. This information is then rendered and aggregated into meaningful pages
to provide information to users in a compact and easily consumable form. In
addition to pure information, many... (more)
According to Wikipedia, “The last mile (or last kilometer) is the final leg
of delivering connectivity from a communications provider to a customer.
Usually referred to by the telecommunications and cable television
industries, it is typically seen as an expensive challenge because ‘fanning
out’ wires and cables is a considerable physical undertaking.” The
significant complexity, cost, and risk associated with this situation delayed
many broadband rollouts until new technology became available that could
realize the “last mile.”
This powerful and real-world analogy from the worl... (more)
Ash Parikh is responsible for driving Informatica's product strategy around SOA. Prior to joining Informatica, Ash drove product innovation and strategy at technology leaders such as Raining Data, Iopsis Software, BEA, Sun, and PeopleSoft. He is a well-published SOA and distributed computing expert and a regular presenter at leading industry events like OASIS Symposium, AJAXWorld, and JavaOne. He has written articles for journals such as DMReview, Business Integration Journal, XML Journal, JavaWorld, JavaPro, Web Services Journal, and ADT Mag, and has a standing column on Web Services in JavaWorld. He is also the co-chair of the SDForum Web Services SIG.
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