XML and Web Services In The News - Friday 14 March 2003

Putting P-to-P Through Enterprise Moves. IT Leaders Use Enhanced P-to-P Technologies to Cut Costs and Easily Move Data Across Networks.
Jack McCarthy, InfoWorld
Although once regarded as a limited and illegal file-sharing application, peer-to-peer is now gaining ground among enterprise chief technologists. A key factor leading to the technology's increasing enterprise traction is the move by vendors to integrate p-to-p's networking capabilities with XML and Web services.

Navy Forms First XML Council
Matthew French, Federal Computer Week
Next week, the US Navy's chief information officer will lead activities to help kick off the new XML Business Standards Council (BSC), the first of four groups that will form the working-level tier of the Navy's XML governance structure. The council will focus on XML business standards which promote the use of common data elements and objects.

C# Programming Language Future Features
Prashant Sridharan, Microsoft MSDN Library
The Microsoft Corporation is in the process of developing the next major version of the C# language. This article contains information regarding four key new features, including generics, iterators, anonymous methods, and partial types.

WS-I to Vote on Sun's Fate. Member Companies to Decide Whether Java Creator Will Get Board Seat
Paul Krill, InfoWorld
A consequential joust for power in Web services standards development will unfold this week with Sun Microsystems making a bid for one of two board seats being added to The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I).

New Web Services Specifications for Reliable Messaging and Addressing.
XML Cover Pages
Two new specifications have been published as part of the Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA) platform. WS-ReliableMessaging is a protocol that allows messages to be delivered reliably between distributed applications in the presence of software component, system, or network failures. WS-Addressing defines XML elements to identify Web service endpoints and to secure end-to-end endpoint identification in messages.