Kent Jarrell's List: Web Based Service Tools

• • Very interesting article that gives the basic breakdown of three service based web tools
• • I also believe this is a credible source because Rick Grehan is contributing editor of the InfoWorld Test Center.
• • I feel this is a valid source because it is an article from a website that lets you like this on Facebook, twitter it , and it gives you many other options as well. 
• A Web service is, after all, a collection of procedures exposed to the unforgiving thoroughfare of the Net (be it inter- or intra-). And a failed Web service invites wrath not only from the managers and administrators who monitor and maintain the server's well-being, but from the clients who have called your Web service. Get your Web service right, or get two earfuls of complaints
• soapUI arranges work into projects. Each project is primarily identified by the interfaces that the project is built to test

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• • Very informative article on Soapui and why it is called what it is and how it works
• • I believe this is a valid source due to the fact that Pearson is a trusted media company and because the article is written by someone who also has another publication
• Web services are not just for large organizations! Any organization can build, deploy, and use web services. The Spring web services framework offers much to web service developers. Stephen Morris shows how to come to grips with this technology.
• t's also straightforward to use web services within an organization.
• The great merit of web services is the fact that it provides a flexible means of spreading computing power over the Internet. By hosting web services, company X can provide limited computing facilities to company Y. Used in this way, web services allows any organization to become a service provider. It's also straightforward to use web services within an organization.

  • Web services help companies as well as individuals!
• It's called SOAP because SOAP is the underlying messaging protocol used for web services. Basically, a SOAP message has a header and a body. It's not a million miles away from the header and body sections in an IP packet. SOAPUI therefore can be used to interact with a web service—sending messages to the service and receiving responses where appropriate. As you'll see, SOAPUI is a powerful open source tool.

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• • Neat article on different free tools for data visualization and analysis.
• • I think this is a valid source because Sharon Machlis is the online managing editor at Computerworld, and she has other articles on various subjects
• There are many tools around to help turn data into graphics, but they can carry hefty price tags. The cost can make sense for professionals whose primary job is to find meaning in mountains of information, but you might not be able to justify such an expense if you or your users only need a graphics application from time to time, or if your budget for new tools is somewhat limited.

  If one of the higher-priced options is out of your reach, there are a surprising number of highly robust tools for data visualization and analysis that are available at no charge.

  • Cool to know their are tools out there that are availabe for no cost!

• DataWrangler

    

  What it does: This Web-based service from Stanford University's Visualization Group is designed for cleaning and rearranging data so it's in a form that other tools such as a spreadsheet app can use.

  • Neat tool to help create spreadsheets, pretty cool!

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• • Very interesting article on how Intel would like to come out with a web based tv service
• • I believe this is a credible source because of the video and the fact that Sam Schreiner has other articles published with the Wall Street Journal.
• Intel Corp.  INTC -0.49%  is developing an Internet-based television service that it hopes to sell to U.S. consumers, a strategic shift by the chip maker as it sets its sights on the crowded pay-TV business.

  • interesting that intel want to come out with a web based tv service, I think it has the potential to be a very profitable business.
• Intel Corp.  INTC -0.48%  is developing an Internet-based television service that it hopes to sell to U.S. consumers, a strategic shift by the chip maker as it sets its sights on the crowded pay-TV business.
• The TV offering would use Intel technology, and in at least some scenarios under consideration, would use Intel's name. In its presentations to media companies, Intel says it is making its own set-top box to carry the TV service, and it has demonstrated an interface for users to browse programs.

  • Intel is a very innovative company and I believe they can pull this off
• The new effort would mark a big shift for Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini, who has made clear his determination to move the company beyond the computer industry. Those efforts so far have include a series of TV-related businesses that have largely failed to gain much traction.
• A third issue could be many existing TV channels' lack of Internet rights to all of their own shows. That would mean some channels on a service like the one Intel is proposing could be reduced, at least initially, to a selection of shows in an on-demand format, rather than live. That could make a Web offering less competitive.
• Several large firms have tried to put that package together and backed off," David Wells, Netflix Inc.'s chief financial officer, said of virtual cable operators in an earnings call in late January. "I don't think that is going to come into existence.

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• • Interesting article on how web based design tools can be used by the average person
• • I think this is a credible source because the author has many other publications and because it can be found on two different sources.
• Web-Based Design Tools Just Might Be Right For You. By: Beckert, Beverly A
• sign, Costa Mesa, CA, provides consulting, field testing, analysis, and systems integration to its aerospace customers. When the company launched in April 2000, its owner, Chris Thompson, was in search of a CAD package.
• At the end of 1999, startups Alibre Design Inc. and CollabWare shook up the CAD industry with their Web-based design and collaboration tools. More than a year later, these pioneers are inviting companies to catch their vision and jump on the ASP bandwagon. However, many companies are in a holding pattern, content to observe how the on-line design phenomena pans out.

  • interesting at how long ago companies were coming out with web based design tools.
• Greg Milliken, Alibre's vice president of Marketing, explains that Alibre Design's Windows-based client provides a familiar Web browser user interface and handles the graphical display of 3D models and 2D engineering drawings. The design server takes care of core parametric, feature-based solid modeling. Because the Alibre architecture supports "many-to-one" or "one-to-many" configurations, individuals or teams can leverage one or multiple design servers. The third element, the respository server, offers such benefits as configurable access privileges, revision control, and check in/out.
• Wagle reports that CADCAM-E.COM is unique in that the translation solutions are delivered straight to users' desktops. This eliminates the need for them to send data files to the ASP.

  • interesting that translations can be delivered right to the users desktop!

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