The technology of web –services has advanced considerablyin the last five years.

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The technology of web –services has advanced considerablyin the last five years. Many software companies have products andservices for various platforms and organization sizes, such asSun/Java, MS, .Net, .IBM, Web sphere, etc.

The CIO of EpsilonDental, an upcoming dental insurance providerin the Southwest region of the US, is planning on using Webservices as the technology for implementing some IS systems for hiscompany. He has contacted you (as an independent consultant @ rateof $ 1,000 / page) to provide him a report on how it can be done.For your assignment you have prepare this report in which youmust.

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      Gates and IBM Software chiefSteve Mills coined the term "advance Web services", showcasinginteroperability among Web services while demonstrating reliablemessaging and secure, authenticated transactions across afederated, heterogeneous environment.

      The kind of applicationsthat people will build around advanced Web services will drivebusiness decision makers to adopt products that use those services.The backend of that particular demo was a Linux server running IBMWebSphere and Windows Server 2003, and a Sharp Zaurus PDA runningLinux and the Opera browser as client

      In terms of advance Webservices and interoperability, Indigo is a giant leap forward.Indigo introduces transactions to provide reliable, traceable, andACID (atomicity, consistency, integrity and distributed) basedcommunication. Message buffering and disconnected buffering,

      Exploiting the client,delivering data in the form of XML to the client and then havinglocal rich rendering while still being able to have mapping to HTMLfor reach, that's something which is making very simple.

      Microsoft and IBM also aredelivering a white paper entitled, "Federation of Identities in aWeb Services World.The white paper outlines the challengesassociated with federated identity management as well as describesa Web services model that allows companies to issue and rely oninformation from other companies and domains.

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