Joelle Gropper Kaufman

It's relatively easy to build custom Web services. Customers are finding that it's much more difficult, however, to successfully secure and scale them in production. Six tips from Canada's largest loyalty reward program provider, a global financial services company, and Reactivity, Inc. can help you simplify Web services deployment. They're Popping Up Everywhere For one or two XML Web services, why worry about systematizing deployment? The answer is so you don't have to worry about them - or the potential security and availability lapses they can create - later. Here are three indications that your enterprise needs a robust, secure XML Web services deployment system: You're spending longer deploying XML and Web services than it took to create them. You're going back to modify services to accommodate new standards, meet security requirements, and fix interoperability ... (more)