Microsoft Corp. introduced many new technologies at its Professional Developers Conference last week, but few are more of a departure for the company than a Web services infrastructure code-named Indigo.
Indigo is an SOA (service-oriented architecture) framework at the core of a new development and deployment paradigm in the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. The effort is a move away from the company's bread-and-butter object-oriented paradigm, which is built around technologies such as OLE and Component Object Model+.
SOA development creates groups of federated programs that can interact with one another to solve business problems for customers, said John Shewchuk, Microsoft's XML Web services architect, who spearheaded Indigo.
By Darryl K. Taft
November 3, 2003
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Source: eWeek
