Darren Govoni

Current trends in IT and business computing indicate an evolution toward the dynamic exchange of business information, market intelligence, and commercial transactions. Technology standards such as XML have provided the common language needed to interoperate effectively across networks and systems. In addition, the collection of technologies known as Web services (XML, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, etc.) provides a complete platform for interbusiness service and data exchange that's rapidly becoming the modus operandi for e-businesses. The goal of these efforts is twofold yet oddly diametric - on the one hand you have the need to de-couple business systems and infrastructures so they can change freely, and on the other you want to couple disparate networks and systems together on demand. Enterprises use a variety of different technologies to meet their needs and these have often ... (more)

Web Services Over P2P Networks

Peer technologies seek to build vast ad hoc networks and communities around common interests, objectives, or content. Web services provide a common platform through which information and business processes can be exchanged, combined, and deployed across networks. There are interesting overlaps between the two as each seeks to become a common stack for publishing and discovery across networks. This article explores some of the similarities and differences between Web services and peer technologies and highlights key intersect points that enable interesting possibilities when used ... (more)