Most organizations today have internal applications that span across
different systems, networks, and technologies. These applications would
provide more value to customers if only the data that they manage were
exposed. In the past, this was often difficult due to the inability of
systems to communicate with one other. However with Web service standards in
place for several years now, services are finally gaining acceptance
throughout the industry. Consequently, service-oriented architectures (SOAs)
have finally come to fruition as companies start to rethink how they build
enterprise applications.
In the past, organizations typically approached large-scale development
efforts as one monolithic project. This was often due to constraints of the
underlying technology as ... (more)
Most organizations today have internal applications that span across
different systems, networks, and technologies. These applications would
provide more value to customers if only the data that they manage were
exposed. In the past, this was often difficult due to the inability of
systems to communicate with one other. However with Web service standards in
place for several years now, s... (more)