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Monday, September 12, 2005
Developer presents web services benefits
episode49 senior developer Frederick Doe presented "The Future of Web Services in .NET Application Development and Delivery" at South Broad .NET Users Group (SBNUG) on September 12, 2005.
"Web Services provide a means to widely distribute applications and reuse proven development" said Doe, "By creating data agnostic systems, the opportunity to use the results of what has been created increases tremendously."
Web services are simple, self contained applications which perform functions, from simple requests to complicated business processes. They can be local, distributed, or Web-based. Software applications written in different programming languages and running on various platforms can use web services to exchange data over computer networks like the Internet, in a manner similar to inter-process communication on a single computer. This interoperability (e.g. between Java and Python, or Windows and GNU Linux applications) derives from the use of open standards.
"Frederick's sharing of his knowledge of web services is an example of how episode49 finds, uses and shares the latest technology that best serves the needs of our clients," said Ken Smith, managing partner and chief strategist.
Doe focused on creation of web services with the Microsoft .NET environment and related implementation issues. Over the past six years, Microsoft has worked with other computing industry leaders to create and standardize a set of specifications for a model of distributed computing called XML Web services. This set of specifications, together with the Microsoft .NET tools and technologies, fundamentally changes the way in which enterprise applications and services are constructed, deployed, and integrated.
Doe introduced related implementation issues for third party providers. One key concern was the reluctance of enterprises to use services for which they did not have the source code. Doe discussed how to assure the third party services users that they would always have access to the applications, even if the provider ceased operation.
"I'm convinced that web services will have an increasing role in the development we provide", said Kurt Schaffer, managing partner and chief systems architect.
To find out more about Doe's presentation, he can be contacted at fdoe@e49.com
