Web Services

One of the most exciting new trends in enterprise application development is the wide-spread adoption of XML-based web service technologies. By standardizing on industry-supported standards, your enterprise's applications can now communicate with other applications on any platform. In other words, your applications can now interoperate with any other web service, no matter how the other is implemented, no matter what language or platform is used.

You are no longer locked into one specific architecture or one vendor's proprietary messaging software. Using the new web service standards, your Java applications can exchange messages with applications written in C# and deployed on the Microsoft .NET platform, or COBOL applications deployed on an IBM mainframe, or Perl applications deployed on a Linux system.

Articulate Design has years of experience with software that uses all the major web service specifications, including:

XML (Extensible Markup Language)
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
WSDL (Web Service Description Language)
UDDI (Univeral Description, Discovery and Integration)
WS-I Basic Profile (Web Service Interoperability Group's Recommendations)
WS-Security (Web Service Security)

We also have extensive experience with the Java EE standard web service APIs, including:

JAX-WS (Java API for XML Web Services)
JAX-RPC (Java API for XML Remote Procedure Calls)
SAAJ (SOAP with Attachments API for Java)
JAXR (Java API for XML Registries)

We can help you develop secure, interoperable web services.

For more information, email us at info@pineneedleconsulting.com