BUILDING for a BRAVE NEW WORLD.(Web services)

Enterprise Systems Journal, October, 2001 by Swoyer, Stephen

Although still in its infancy, Web services is tantalizing the industry by promising a collection of technologies and services that will integrate seamlessly via the Web. Can you afford to ignore it?

Say the term "Web services" around a lot of enterprise administrators, and you'll probably trigger some hype detectors. That's because the Web services arena currently has all the heated atmosphere and buy-now promises of a paid programming infomercial on late-night television. Some vendors are pushing the Web services model as a solution for platform and application integration problems of any and all kinds; others are hyping Web services as a quantum leap forward in business-to-business integration.

Loosely defined, Web services is a suite of standards...

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