The potential impact of web services on corporate computing is great:
For the first time in IT history, web services based on XML promise fundamentally "portable data" all the way to the transaction level. Sun is invested in bringing the portable data of web services together with the "portable business logic" of Java technology. It's a huge step forward that is visible by anyone who has examined J2EE 1.4, which is becoming a widely adopted standard basis for web services products from many companies.
But when the conversation turns to the "next set" of web services standards, we at Sun often hear confusion and dismay from customers.
