Parasoft SOAtest 5.5, released today, enables development teams to perform business process testing, load and performance testing, policy enforcement, scenario tests and unit testing. This release adds support for the Microsoft .NET Framework and Windows Communication Foundation.
Parasoft SOAtest 5.5 Continues its Evolution as the Premier Quality Solution to Ensure Secure, Reliable, And Compliant Service Oriented Architectures.
Alan Kotok is managing editor of Science's Next Wave (http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/), a weekly supplement on career development to Science magazine. Kotok is also editor of ebXML Forum (http://www.ebxmlforum.org/), published in conjunction with WebServices.Org. He is the author or co-author of three books on e-business, the most recent being Handbook of EDI, 2003 Edition ( http://www.riahome.com/estore/detail.asp ).
The recent (15-19 November 2004) XML 2004 conference in Washington, DC, IDEAlliance's annual showcase of everything one can put between angle brackets, gave the XML community a look at new XML and Web services standards, and helped participants understand what it takes to make the specifications work . For participants interested in Web services, several sessions discussed emerging standards, not only from what they can do, but also what they cannot and should not do.
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