The services that comprise distributed applications must communicate with one another to exchange data or information. You need a common data format for these communications, which narrows the options ...

BOSTON– Service-oriented architectures leveraging messaging and Web services are key to meeting complicated system integration needs, a BEA executive stressed during a keynote presentation at the ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following story was updated on Jan. 14, 2005, to reflect further reporting. The next version of Microsoft's customer-relationship-management application will make greater use of its ...