Attachmate to Host W3C Web Services Choreography Working Group, September 15-17.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers World Wide Web Consortium BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2003 Attachmate Corporation, with more than 20 years of innovation in the legacy application integration space, will host the upcoming World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ) Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. Choreography Group meeting, September 15-17, at its corporate headquarters in Bellevue, Wash. The W3C develops interoperable technologies, such as specifications, guidelines, software, and tools, to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C provides a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding between organizations. As part of W3C, the Web Services Choreography Working Group, formed in January 2003, addresses issues inherent in the development of Web services and the relationships between different levels of operations within organizations. Web Service Choreography Web Service Choreography (WS-Choreography) is a specification by the W3C defining a XML-based business process modeling language that describes collaboration protocols of cooperating Web Service participants, in which services act as peers, and interactions may be long-lived aims at using the power of Web services to allow corporations to create business processes that mirror today's dynamic and ever-changing business needs. "We are pleased to provide a venue for the important work being done by the W3C because it closely aligns with our customer solutions," said Markus Nitschke, Attachmate vice president, marketing and product management. According to W3C, the term "choreography" is used to denote the space that includes differing terminology in the industry, such as orchestration, collaboration, coordination, and conversations -- these terms share a common characteristic of describing linkages and usage patterns between Web services. There is a need for a common interface and composition language to help address choreography. Corporations can expose their application software and resources as Web services so that other corporations can dynamically find and use them in their business processes. Creating a business process requires not only a clear definition of collaboration patterns of all its components but also a way of depicting standard B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business interactions. Attachmate myEXTRA! connector and restructuring solutions leverage existing legacy assets to serve new business initiatives and make legacy data and business logic available as a set of reusable services for new Internet, intranet, extranet, or custom B2B solutions -- without having to make host code changes. This host-based information can be securely exposed as XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , Web services, or popular component technologies that can then be consumed and shared by multiple applications across the enterprise. About W3C The W3C is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT LCS LCS - Language for Communicating Systems ) in the US, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM ERCIM - European Research Consortium on Informatics and Mathematics. An association of European research organisations promoting cooperative research on key issues in Information Technology. ) headquartered in France, and Keio University in Japan. Services provided by the Consortium include: a repository of information about the World Wide Web for developers and users, and various prototype and sample applications to demonstrate use of new technology. For more information see http://www.w3.org/. About Attachmate Attachmate Corporation is a privately held, worldwide supplier of host data and business-logic access and management solutions for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises. The company provides solutions for direct, real-time access to back-office systems, Web-to-host and desktop-to-host solutions, and flexible enterprise application integration and Web service offerings. Attachmate(R) is member of the Web Services Interoperability The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is an industry consortium chartered to promote interoperability amongst the stack of web services specifications. Organization (WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization, www.ws-i.org) A consortium founded by Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems and Intel that is dedicated to the development of Web services. Its goals are to provide guidance and education, to promote interoperability and to ensure that Web services ), a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Unisys(R) Partner, and BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. (R) Star Partner. News is available at www.attachmate.com, or by calling Attachmate worldwide headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, at 425-644-4010. (C) 2003 Attachmate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Attachmate is a registered trademark and myEXTRA! is a trademark of Attachmate Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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