Keith Swenson is Vice President of Research and Development at Fujitsu America Incorporated and is the Chief Software Architect for the Interstage family of products. He is known for having been a pioneer in Web services, collaborative planning, workflow, and business process management, having participated in the formation of a number of standards in these fields, including receiving the 2004 "Mannheim Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Workflow." He has led projects at Fujitsu, Netscape, MS2 and Ashton-Tate on group collaboration spaces. His most recent project is a cloud-based offering of Interstage BPM that will offer process modeling, forms development, rules development, Web service integration and execution of completed BPM applications in a 100% hosted cloud environment. See his blog on Collaborative Planning at http://kswenson.wordpress.com/.
This article looks at the basic interoperability requirements when communicating with the Cloud, and in particular at techniques and standards used to express and enforce wire-level contracts between communicating parties, as these parties are increasingly also contracting parties in a...Nov. 23, 2009 11:45 PM EST Reads: 914
