XML and Web Services In The News - Thursday 13 March 2003

Web Services Choreography Group Kicks Off. W3C Panel to Hold First Meeting
InfoWorld
Officials from major technology companies will gather Wednesday to begin establishing a standard for Web services choreography, considered crucial to the growth of Web services usage for business processes. The Web Services Choreography Working Group was formed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in January 2003.

The XML.com Interview: Eric Meyer
Russell Dyer, XML.com
Eric Meyer is an employee of Netscape and an Invited Expert member of the W3C's CSS working group. Meyer narrates how he got involved with CSS in such an instrumental way.

Blueprint for Implementing Web Services
Brad Hill, E-Commerce Times
It is a good idea to assemble a Web services task force to audit present-day IT operations and performance. From there, a picture of data logjams, collaboration weaknesses and security issues can emerge.

Conference Pushes for Open Source in Government. Open Source Advocates to Make Pitch in Washington.
Grant Gross, InfoWorld
Government agencies looking for low-cost, or no-cost, software solutions can hear the open-source community make its pitch during a conference in Washington, D.C. , next week -- and meet some protesters in Revolutionary War garb.

WS-Security Set to Become a Core Standard
Vance McCarthy, Enterprise Developer News
The lead author of one of the most comprehensive books on web services security thus far says that WS-Security is destined to become a core foundation standard for building secure web services. Mark O'Neill of Vordel is a co-author of the book "Web Services Security."

Web Services: The Only Way to Make Wi-Fi Good for Business?
Peter Judge, ZDNet News
Iona has developed a Web service software that avoids problems caused by connecting to a corporate network from different Wi-Fi hot spots. Web services may be the missing link to make Wi-Fi suitable for business use, according to integration specialist Iona, whose Mobile Orchestrator product featured at Intel's Centrino launch.