Date: Nov. 4, 2002
Link: http://www.webservices.org/index.php/article/articleview/663/1/24/
Source Author or Organization: Uche Ogbuji

The Past, Present and Future of Web Services, part 1 is the first installment of the Web Services Papers, a detailed history and analysis of Web Services by Fourthought, Inc. cofounder Uche Ogbuji. As Web Services moves from the crest of the hype phase towards maturity the author works to impart a fundamental understanding of how the technology evolved, and a look at where it is likely to go.

This part traces the history of Web Services from the remarkably sophisticated distributed messaging technologies of the traditionally overlooked minicomputer era through modern times, examining the motivations behind the birth of each technology and the reasons for the success of the technologies that prevailed. Part 1 includes examinations of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), IBM MQSeries, Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Component Object Model (COM), Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) remote object protocol, HP e-Speak, Extensible Markup Language Remote Procedure Calls (XML-RPC), Web Distributed Data Exchange (WDDX), Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Interface Definition Language (WIDL), Service Description Language (SDF), SOAP Contract Language (SCL), Discovery of Web Services (DISCO), Web Services Definition Language (WSDL), several encryption and digital signature technologies and Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI).