Today, application integration is the single biggest challenge facing IT organizations. With business imperatives driving an increasing need for cross-organization integration, this challenge is ...

First up, a scope warning for this article. This is the first part of a two-part piece about XML. Here I focus on uses of XML in areas such as application configuration files, the exchange of ...

COMMENTARY--The rise of internetworking was fueled by the use of network-level security technologies such as SSL, IPSec and firewall filtering to create a secure perimeter around an enterprise network ...

Web services have a bright future in the trucking industry, as information can be exchanged among different systems – internally and among various supply chain partners – in real time. Despite these ...

recognize the Extensible Markup Language as an important solution to their emerging data exchange needs. However, vendors and standards bodies promote different XML standards, thereby generating ...

Like private industry, the federal government is beginning to broadly embrace XML, the open standard for exchanging information among disparate computer systems. Government IT managers say the ...