What are the constraints in the future development and adoption of applications around Web Services?
No doubt Web Services are faced with many challenges, security being the foremost. Web Services involve exchange of messages carrying a lot of data and thereby making the confidentiality and integrity of the information of utmost importance. Inter-operability and the Web Service standards on which the technology needs to exist are other points of contention, though Web Services standards have matured now and the Web Services community is continuously striving to standardise the process to ensure that vendors inter-operate with each other. Once these issues are resolved and there is a consensus, Web Services will deliver all that has been promised. What is the infotech industry doing to create an eco-system around Web Services? Product vendors are betting big on the success of Web Services adoption. Companies like Sun, IBM, Microsoft and have either created new Web Services products or enhanced their products to incorporate Web Services capabilities. Database vendors like Oracle are wor
