Web Services or the new inter-operability paradigm

The industry giants have spent huge amount of efforts to set Web Services up as the new standard for the Internet and IT applications. They spent so much, that public opinion became quickly polarized: those who thought Web Services were just another IT utopia (the stongest one), while others became Web Services evangelists.

The recent implementations emphasized the Web Services scope : a multi-organization effort that makes inter-operability standard comes true. In the same period, application integration projects based on EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) have reached the industrial stage, going out company boarders towards BtoB exchanges. This scope and maturity convergence changes our way to consider EAI and Web Services : from a simple technical alternative we are going into a strategic option for the Information System architecture.

White papers

"Web Services for BtoB integration : technical opportunity or strategic choice?" - June 2003.

• The second opus of my Web Services history. I wrote this white paper for Unilog Management, the first French consulting firm for EAI-SOA projects...Download this White Paper

"Are Web Services the new IT paradigm? old promises, new standards, new challenges" - June 2001.

• When it came to create CloudLink, one the first French ISV to deal with Web Services, I got the perfect opportunity to publish my first research on the subject...Download this White Paper