9.1. So Many Changes

The year 2002 saw many innovations and changes in the Web Services space. Technology vendors rolled out several major releases of Web Services toolkits or reference implementations. For example, we have seen several releases of Java Web Services Developer Pack since March of 2002 (Early Access 1, Early Access 2, Version 1.0, and recently Version 1.0_1). IBM's Web Services Toolkit has also drastically upgraded from Release 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 and 3.3.2 with considerable architectural changes, to support new Web Services specifications.

The Web Services user marketplace is also responding to Web Services technology. We have seen faster adoption of ebXML in the industry, such as Open Applications Group (http://www.openapplications.org/projects/projects.htm ...

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