Davanum Srinivas

The Apache Web Services Project is an umbrella project consisting of many projects. The scope of projects goes from SOAP implementations to a UDDI implementation to a host of WS-* implementation efforts. The developer community is a vibrant one, coming from a mixture of large companies, small companies, and independent consultants. The community is also global, with participants originating from the US, Europe and Asia. In this article we briefly introduce some of the activity around the Apache Axis project, the flagship project of the Apache Web Services activities. Axis Apache Axis started with a total rewrite of the Apache SOAP implementation, which was the first SOAP 1.1 implementation. Apache Axis now has both Java and C++ incarnations. The Axis/Java product is a very mature product that is widely used by many vendors for SOAP enablement of their systems. In co... (more)

Web Services Distributed Management

Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) is a specification under the auspices of OASIS to define Web services management. This specification aims to describe how to implement management using Web services and also defining how to manage Web services themselves. The specification includes using Web services architecture and technology to manage distributed resources and develops the model of a Web service as a manageable resource. The specification includes WSDL described manageable resources and the XML schema to complete those descriptions geared towards defining explicit man... (more)