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This document is one of a series of tutorials to demonstrate the use of the Web Services tools in the Web Tools Platform Project using the WTP 1.5 drivers.
This tutorial shows how to create a simple top-down Web service from a WSDL file. The WSDL file in this scenario calculates the area of an rectangle.
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Let's put the speculation about who's behind the Open Cloud Manifesto to rest right now: InfoWorldhas learned that IBM is the driving force. That's according to two cloud vendors who said they signed the document.
Oracle White Paper – Performance Monitor: ERP at the Speed of Light – read this white paper.
"We are part of the manifesto," said Pankaj Malviya, CEO of LongJump, which provides an on-demand platform for business applications. "We worked with IBM."
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Such are the birth pangs which attend every interesting new technology. But while they say experience is a teacher, any lessons seem destined to land on deaf ears when it comes to the computer industry. At the dawn of the cloud computing era, we're about to witness key tech companies again pull in opposite directions,
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This CDWA has served us well the last twenty years. In fact, up to five years ago we had good reasons to use this architecture. The state of database, ETL, and reporting technology did not really allow us to develop something else. All the tools were aimed at supporting the CDWA. But the question right now is: twenty years later, is this still the right architecture? Is this the best possible architecture we can come up with, especially if we consider the new demands and requirements, and if we look at new technologies available in the market? My answer would be no! To me, we are slowly reaching the end of an era. An era where the CDWA was king. It is time for change. This article is the first in a series on the flaws of the CDWA and on an alternative architecture, one that fits the needs and wishes of most organizations for (hopefully) the next twenty years. Let’s start by describing some of the CDWA flaws.