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Business : Deciding on Web Services
The shift to the Web Services paradigm will change the way enterprise strategists plan, build and deploy their IT resources. With the need to be "first off the blocks" paramount in order to leverage this new technology; enterprises today are well advised to start with the basics - consider making a strategic choice of an enterprise wide programming environment. The question is, which one?

Trends : How will Web Services Evolve?
Tracing its origin back to component-based technologies, and riding on the twin benefits of openness and modularity, Web Services promise a lot - ranging from addressing key enterprise pain points of integration to a "new" architectural model for conceptualizing, developing and deploying enterprise architecture to fundamentally impacting the manner in which enterprises communicate with partners and customers. Understanding its evolutionary roadmap is critical for enterprises that are serious about Web Services.

Research : Is seamless interoperability a pipedream?
At one level, Web Services are all about interoperating heterogeneous enterprise applications over the Web. To evolve as an enabler of enterprise collaboration, Web Services technology must ensure interoperability among application silos within an enterprise, and between business partners. There is still a slip between the cup and the lip, when it comes to interoperability, and syntax as well as semantic issues needs to addressed, before true interoperability is on hand - disparate businesses talking to each other.

More Research : Web Services Transaction Management - making sure that 2+2=4
Different from that of traditional, distributed transaction processing, transactions in Web Services implies that protocols and infrastructure be specified in a manner that is independent of each participant's underlying hardware and software. Though current state of the art technology falls short of some of the requirements, which characterize Web Services transaction management, we expect two competing protocols to make waves in Q1 2003.

Implementation : Making soup with Web Services
The challenges unique to developing Web Services arise from the fact that most "standards" in this emerging space are yet to mature. Enterprises therefore, need to internalize key implementation considerations from prototype applications, which offer scope for generic applicability and learning.

Framework : Building a framework for securing Web Services
While security models are essential for developing Web Services, architectural frameworks that fully support, integrate and unify popular security models have still not matured fully. However, with major players backing WS-Security, it is likely to become ubiquitous, and emerge as the security standard for Web Services. The bottom line - architectures that support, integrate and unify several popular models, mechanisms, and technologies is a must, if different systems are to securely interoperate in a platform and language neutral manner.

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