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Open-source company Jitterbit has unveiled version 1.1 of its application integration software adding in support for Web services publishing and LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol).

Graham Glass wrote a blog entry this week that touched on two of my favorite themes: open source and education. In the middle of a project based on the red-hot Ruby on Rails platform, he took time out to explain how he found, and worked around, a Rails limitation. Digging down to the roots of the problem took six hours of investigation. Crafting the work-around took just six lines of code.

Search engine company Google has been named the fastest growing company in North America, according to a new ranking by professional services firm Deloitte & Touche.

At InfoWorld's CTO Forum in April, BEA's Adam Bosworth talked about missing pieces of the Web services infrastructure. Some were usual suspects: reliable asynchronous transactions, more flexible programming techniques. But one of the items on Bosworth's wish list -- the high-performance XML message broker that he said BEA is developing -- struck me as novel.

The open source Java applications server, JBoss has been built into webMethods' data integration software.

Seeking its consideration as an industry standard, Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday announced plans to submit its Web Services Management Framework to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).

A consequential joust for power in Web services standards development will unfold this week with Sun Microsystems making a bid for one of two board seats being added to The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I).

Representatives from several companies, including Sun Microsystems, Cape Clear Software, and VeriSign, are seeking seats on the policy-making board of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I).

A standards body working on protocols for Web services has begun crafting a specification for reliability that will help plug a hole in the budding technology that is stifling enterprise adoption.

An upcoming version of the Web services specification SOAP has moved a step closer to finalization and may be completed by March, according to the World Wide Web Consortium.

Web services standardization is advancing on several fronts, including choreography and intellectual property concerns, a World Wide Web Consortium official said in an interview this week.