XML AND WEB SERVICES AT BUILDER.COM E-NEWSLETTER for August 11, 2003

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GET A HANDLE ON GLOBAL XML WEB SERVICES ARCHITECTURE

There are several competing Web services standards out there, but any
standard that both IBM and Microsoft will back is worth your time to
investigate.

That's why it's time to start looking into the Global XML Web Services
Architecture (GXA) platform. Due to its pedigree, it's quite possible that
future Windows-based products will support GXA; this is a good reason
why you should become familiar with GXA.

The first thing you should learn about GXA is that it's actually several
proposed standards rather than just one. It's also designed to go beyond
the basic connections of SOAP and core XML. Though it's still in the
formative stages, GXA hopes to do for XML what the virtual machine did for
Java: bolster interoperability and ease development.

This article discusses the basic underpinnings of GXA and examines how
this initiative may impact your future Web services development efforts.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=49-ZMucIEpvf40_0vNu.ilwccE90SrX

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