Date Posted: December 3, 2001
Overview
What is Business Explorer for Web Services?
Business Explorer for Web Services has graduated.
An enhanced version of Business Explorer for Web Services (BE4WS) was incorporated into Web Services Tool Kit (WSTK), which has now become Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK).About the technology author(s)
Tian Chao is an advisory software engineer of the B2B Service Infrastructure Group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Her work at the Research Division has focused on Web services and security of Web services. Ms. Chao has filed three patents in the Web services area and has co-authored over half a dozen conference papers related to Web services and dynamic e-business. She is currently enhancing Business Explorer for Web services. In her prior work, Ms. Chao was the key developer for the first prototype that integrates Web services with IBM WebSphere Business Integrator (WBI), which was showcased at major conferences such as JavaOne and XMLDev Conference. She also designed the end-to-end Web services security model, based on J2EE and IBM WebSphere, for a WBI-related platform. In a collaborative e-commerce project, Ms. Chao led the design of a membership subsystem. In addition, she designed and developed a Digital Signature Server for Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) with signing, verification, and non-repudiation capabilities. Before joining the Research Division in 1999, Ms. Chao worked at the IBM Transaction Processing Facility Development Lab. She was awarded two patents there. Ms. Chao received a Master's degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan University.
Hung-yang (Henry) Chang is the manager of B2B Service Infrastructure in the e-Commerce research department at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. His recent focus includes Dynamic Web services framework, Collaborative e-hub infrastructure, and distributed Web process management. From 1999 to 2000, he was the lead architect of the IBM enterprise extranet for large enterprise customers, focusing on end-to-end content management for a large B2B procurement. Before joining ibm.com, Dr. Chang conducted research mobile application infrastructure, data replication, and Web database transaction management. He has lead research projects that focus on mobile access to enterprise information sources, such as remote file systems, World-Wide Web, and transactional databases. His previous projects include adaptation of MACH microkernel to large-scale multiprocessors, distributed simulation, and distributed scheduling algorithms. Dr. Chang taught "distributed object computing" at Polytech of New York. He is the co-chair of the Data Synchronization workgroup of Mobile NC Reference Specification. Dr. Chang holds a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from University of Wisconsin at Madison (1987) and a B.S. in Electric Engineering from National Taiwan University. He is a member of ACM.
Haifei Li joined IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in September 2001. His research interests are business negotiation, business process automation, B2B integration, and rule-based systems. Mr. Li earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1990 and a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida in 1998. He entered the doctoral program in Computer Science at the University of Florida in 1998 and received his Ph.D. degree in December 2001. Ever since he finished enhancing the BE4WS code (from October to November 2001), Mr. Li has been working on a solution management project.
