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03.04.2006
Apache Axis2, the next generation of Apache Axis, announced its first milestone release few weeks ago. This article presents the rationale for Axis2 and explains the new features in contrast to the Apache Axis 1.x family.
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03.04.2006
Related Technologies, Misconceptions, and Extensions
BPEL (BPEL4WS) is the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, a popular Web Service Composition Language and possibly the future standard. In this article we present the capabilities of BPEL and its associations with other technologies and formalisms. We further discuss some of the existing BPEL engines, their extensions to BPEL and motivation behind these extensions.
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03.04.2006
Presenting a Client-Transparent Fault Tolerant System for SOAP-based Web services
The e-business community uses web services for its critical activites, owing to web services' ability to guarantee full availability of the service in the presence of failures. However, most of the existing fault tolerant systems for web services do not provide fault tolerance for transparent handling of requests whose processing was in progress when failure occurred. This article describes a new scheme for providing client transparent fault tolerance for SOAP-based web services, using a portable fault tolerant system called FAWS.
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03.04.2006
Achieving Seamless Login between Web apps Deployed on WLS v7.0 & v8.1
This article presents a solution for single sign-on (SSO) between two Web applications (deployed on WebLogic v7.0 and v8.1 servers respectively) that I was recently involved in designing and developing. We will step through the different options that were considered, before presenting a detailed description of the final solution and its associated security considerations (threats and mitigating factors).
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