Stories about: UDDI

Red Hat Thursday said its JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform would be available later this month and introduced three new open source projects designed to infuse transaction, management and other capabilities into its middleware software lineup.

Filling out its open source middleware stack, JBoss has unveiled its ESB (enterprise service bus) as well as revealing core technologies planned for an upcoming application server upgrade.

A standards body developing security and policy improvements for the next version of a Web services-based registry specification stamped its work as an official standard on Thursday.

Microsoft Corp. is leading a group of vendors proposing a specification intended to extend Web services to devices.

Representatives from Nokia Corp., Oracle Corp. and IBM Corp. have joined the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards' (OASIS) board of directors, the organization announced Monday.

The OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) consortium said Tuesday it has ratified version 2.0 of the UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) Web services specification, an important step toward finalization of the widely awaited, significantly expanded 3.0 version of the standard.

The SCO Group this week outlined its SCOx strategy for providing Web services to small and midsize businesses and branch offices.

An upcoming version of UDDI could give the Web services directory technology the boost it needs to spur adoption, according to an IBM Corp. official at a conference on Wednesday.

Sun Microsystems will adopt commonly known Linux distributions for deployment on a range of Intel-based systems it is planning and will no longer offer its Sun Linux distribution.

A Microsoft engineer had harsh words this week for vendors contributing to the plethora of Web services specifications, and advised developers to read less of them and get on with writing applications.

Sun Microsystems will incorporate an important specification with the next version of its enterprise Java platform that is designed to ensure interoperability among Web services applications.