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Web application, XML firewalls converge in one appliance
NetContinuum and Forum Systems unite their flagship security products in one appliance that secures applications and XML Web services traffic. Article
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New XML firewall keeps watch on Web services
Forum Systems' new XWall Web services firewall offers enterprises intrusion prevention, data integrity and access control capabilities. Article
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SOA standards searched for maturity in 2005
A host of Web services transaction and security specifications designed to improve quality of service hit the standards track in 2005. Design and implementation specifications also arose and JBI caused a dust up among Java vendors. Article
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JBoss adds Arjuna transactions to SOA stack
JBoss Inc. has acquired the proprietary Arjuna Transaction Service Suite with the plans of turning it into an open source offering and adding to the company's developing SOA platform. Article
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common gateway interface (CGI)
Also see FastCGI. The common gateway interface (CGI) is a standard way for a Web server to pass a Web user's request to an application program and to receive data back to forward to the user. Definition
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Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is the creator of the World Wide Web and director of the coordinating body for Web development, the W3C. Berners-Lee credits Vint Cerf and Bob Khan (who defined the Internet protocol (IP) that allows computers to exchange packets of i... Definition
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microcommerce
Microcommerce is an online selling/purchasing model that involves the exchange of very small sums of money, sometimes known as micropayments. Definition
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Jikes
Jikes is an open source Java compiler from IBM that adheres strictly to the Java specification and promises an "extremely fast" compilation. Definition
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OASIS melds sci-fi, SOA
SOA may seem like a radical technical concept to some, but OASIS plans to use it as a grounding point for the even loftier and more abstract notion of the Semantic Web. Article
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fully qualified domain name (FQDN)
A fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) is that portion of an Internet Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that fully identifies the server program that an Internet request is addressed to. Definition