.NET My Services impact on application development
Author: ZDNET CHINA feature articles Date: October 24, 2001 the name changed, but the concept is still the same. Microsoft's impact on the web service market, the previous code is HAILSTORM, now become Microsoft .NET My Services. Of course, this name is not properly used, because any platform that supports SOAP can use web services; their use is not limited to .NET. And in the same way, there is no difference in its and the original SDK in addition to the sales strategy. The code has been constitutive, and Microsoft is ready to achieve its promises with the Microsoft Professional Developer General Assembly (PDC). Preparation for users to do. Net My Services is a collection of XML web services that make it easier to integrate the currently existing information warehouse (SILO). According to Microsoft, this service allows users to control their own data and information, protect personal information security and provide a new level of ease and personalization. From a developer's perspective, this service provides a platform-independent approach to access your user's information. More careful, there are two ways to use .NET My Services. First, we can create our own information warehouses with HAILSTORM-IN-A-BOX, and everyone will learn from PDC. Second, we can use other people's services in our application, and most people who use this system in our application will move toward this direction. Over time, large host providers may provide .NET My Services services, we can use them in our own programs. The service provided by .NET My Services current SDK-- is also the first version of the rename - contains 8 in the 14 services that have been developed in the PDC and will be issued to the developer (or play?). These services require SQL Server 2000 SP1 and some SOAP processors, which can be operated by SOAP Toolkit 2.0 or .NET. Mycalendar - If you are familiar with Exchange's date object, you recognize this. It also allows selective updates, so the flight can adjust your schedule according to the flight, or your boss can add a meeting on your schedule. Mycategories - This is a collection of a directory similar to Palm Pilot, which can be used to organize data in the data warehouse. For example, you might marke a contract or protocol with a Home or Work directory. MyContacts - This service works as the Exchange contract list. If you save a phone number on your phone, you can use this number of shortcuts on your home phone or see it on your Palm Pilot. MyfavorItem Nowebsites - This service provides more features than your browser's favorites. It can manage where the information in the warehouse is sent, how to send it. It also provides basic features: log in in a local and then look at your favorites. MYLISTS - It is difficult to explain what this service will eventually provide. Maybe a simple data storage service for a shopping list? We must wait and wait. MyProfile - This service store except for payment information, all your personal information: name, position, and ID card number; your home address; the favorite color. You can also save your photos. MyServices - You can imagine this imagination into a user's security toolbox. It allows users to give other people to access the specific service power.
For example, if you walk into a store and hopes it to give you something through your personal information, you can use your WAP phone to log in and then give them access to them. MyWallet - This is actually today's Microsoft Wallet, except that it uses SOAP. It handles information about credit cards and banks. Why is Microsoft's fear leading to the appearance of the Sun alliance
Author: ZDNET CHINA feature articles Date: October 22, 2001 Last week, Sun's Scott McNealy and Microsoft's Steve Ballmer stopped quarreling about their competing Internet user authorization scheme - which are two licensing schemes Sun's Liberty Alliance (Free Union) and Microsoft's Passport. The last confrontation between the two was completed by Ballmer. He said in a grand Gartner IT meeting in Florida. The competition between Microsoft and Sun did not start, this is just potential, because Passport has already There is no standard for Sun's Liberty Alliance even. I have considered this problem: the two sides of the competition - including the United States online, it seems to be in its own way - need to sit down with a neutral gesture to solve these disputes. We don't need to compete in a simple way to access a password for users to access Web services and e-commerce sites - and the confusion caused by this competition. This is a technical issue. However, this may not be entirely a technical issue. Although the technical war - Liberty's open system and Microsoft's enclosed system competition - but actually is another code: this is entirely caused by the fear of Microsoft hegemony in the technical category. Let me explain. If Microsoft is able to access its Passport "Member" customer list, what else can stop it from using these customers to contact yourself? For example, if a credit card company uses Passport and its customers also start to access their bills through Microsoft's licensing services, then what is capable of preventing Microsoft's development of this intermediary relationship and begins a competing credit card business And this business is integrated with Windows or Microsoft Money? Use this idea to use such things, such as mortgage, insurance, and broker business, you will understand how serious this threat is. Companies that spend many years and sometimes hundreds of millions of yuan to build their customers, may feel that these linkages are exposed to Microsoft without distortion. You may think that this can be solved by a contract - Microsoft promises to do not use this favorable condition in everyone in everyone to seek benefits. There are two (a) no one believe that Microsoft (B) is so attractive, people are hard to imagine that Microsoft can resist. Maybe people imagine Passport into temptation island. Take a look at the Liberty Alliance drafted, have you discovered a trend. They include companies with huge user databases, computers, USA, Bank of America, Cingular, ebay, Fidelity Investments, GM, Intuit, Sabre, Sony, Sprint, and Joint Airlines. Liberty Alliance may be able to allow companies to decide to share their customers' listings. Although this seems to reduce the benefits of a single username and password combination, it solves the competition problem that people don't want to see. Create some of such a "User Authorization Alliance" (ie the subset of Union, Alliance, which), this, member of Liberty Alliance can put their customers in "friendly" place. Users selected as their authorized company with conditions to create online shopping malls for their customers. In fact, this process may be like Amazon.com to collect a big online store, or like a flyer, add to the hotel, car rental company, remote distribution company, and credit card provider.
Different from Amazon, these online stores can reside on their own sites and servers, while just sharing some specific information (thanks to user authorization, credit card number, and delivery information). So when Steve Ballmer launches Sun Liberty Alliance, I hope he considers not only technical issues or technical services. Alliance represents a group of companies to express their great panic to Microsoft may become a competitor. That is not a technical issue. WEB services face splits?
Date: October 22, 2001 With the introduction of Sun Liberty Alliance last month, we can realize that Sun is finally planning and Microsoft's Internet idea to fight. As to respond to Microsoft .NET, Sun One released an open network environment (Liberty Allia), which is the Freedom League, which is led by Sun, is established to counterattack Microsoft Hailstorm, and Microsoft is currently officially released. .NET My Services. Like My Services, Liberty Alliance (Its website is ProjectLiberty.org, not libertyalliance.org, the latter is Jerry Falwell's website) Proposed a standard format for the user's personal information - address, credit card number, date, and more Many things. This format will be independent of any single computing device, where the information stored will be used for all Internet transactions. My Services and Liberty Alliance are very critical to Microsoft .NET and Sun One, .NET and ONE are the two dead-headed web service architectures. Microsoft seems to produce a large amount of production My Services, while Liberty Alliance is still discussions on the meeting table. Of course, this is a sign of Microsoft has led in Web services, but in the long run, I don't think this is very important. We see two different worlds, Java programmers create bundled Enterprise Javaans in XML here, as Visual Basic, C , and very fast C # programmers create a Managed component on Microsoft here. . Not a lot of programmers will change the festival and put on the other. And each party requires a schema like Hailstorm to launch their web services, because real-time user authorization and enhanced e-wallet function is the basics of the next wave of e-commerce. The interconnect between the two worlds is key issues - the difference between my service-liberty alliance emphasizes this issue. In two scenarios, a "identity confirmation" service controlled by the user instead of the user in a specific format or collects data. If the Internet splits to only support My Services and only support Liberty Alliance, it will be a disaster. But that is very impossible. You can think of Visa and Mastercard two credit cards, most of the business points support these two cards. But the interaction level between identity confirmation services and e-commerce sites will be much more complicated than the credit card inspection and payment. For example, when you arrive at a music site, if you have licensed, you will automatically log in automatically and your previous music's ordering order, and the music you have purchased online will be freely played, then you can Get a list of music you have not bought. But if there are two different identification methods and two ways to record that historical information, then the next generation of e-commerce sites will have to bear the weight of the technical burden to support these two ways. We can speculate that Microsoft and Liberty Alliance will plan to extend their identity confirmation programs from customers to enterprises, so employees can trade online with customers, partners, and suppliers. I said another time, two parallel worlds have their own stage. Through its activity directory service interface, Microsoft plans to add its activity directory server software to the LAN. Corresponding, we can expect Liberty Alliance to drop away the active directory and use the Java Name and Directory Interface to insert Sun's IPlanet Directory Server or Novell Directory Service.
