HP | XML, Web Services, and the Data Revolution


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	XML, Web Services, and the Data Revolution By Frank P. Coyle
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	Chapter 6. .NET, J2EE, and Beyond

HP has long been active in e-services.

HP uses the term "E-Services" for its Web services initiative. HP's work in the Web services arena began in the mid-1990s with a research project known as e-speak, an effort to formulate service-centric computing requirements. HP has been actively involved in many of the Web services standards, including UDDI, the World Wide Web Consortium's XML Protocol initiative, SOAP 1.1, RosettaNet, and ebXML.

The HP Web Services Platform is a software infrastructure for developing and deploying loosely coupled Web services. Such services can be a mixture of internal and external services and may include applications, business processes, computing resources, or data stores. The HP Web Services Platform leverages its early e-speak technology to provide standards-compliant architecture for creating and deploying Web services.

An important component of the HP Web Services Platform is the HP Web Services Registry, which may be used to publish and discover both public and private registries. Services may be composed from existing Java classes, EJBs, or Cocoon applications. Their objective is an interoperable platform that is compatible with multiple messaging infrastructures , including Microsoft's BizTalk and ebXML.

The HP Web Services Platform sits on top of a J2EE-compliant Web server. In 2000, HP purchased Bluestone to position itself in the XML world and is using Bluestone's Web server as the core technology in its Web services initiative.

HP's modular Web services infrastructure runs on top of the J2EE-compliant HP Bluestone application server, providing both tightly coupled J2EE interaction as well as loosely coupled connectivity with a variety of systems including the Microsoft .NET environment.

The HP Web Services Platform is compliant with open standards, allowing users to develop, register, and discover Web services published in UDDI-compliant public registries. HP's offerings are compatible with the main emerging Web services standards, including SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI.


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