Introduction

About This Book

During the Internet revolution, the organizational motto was to quickly deliver content (information) and functionality (Web-enabled applications) to end users via the Web. Organizations were extremely successful in leveraging Web technologies to deliver eye-candy and static content, but retrospectively, the delivery of enterprise-class Web applications was not a measurable success.

The term “success” always needs to be calibrated against some criteria for it to be measured. For organizations implementing Web-enabled applications, the initial success criteria were to meet the business requirements and deploy the applications within the context of a project budget and timeframe—a simple time-to-market formula. What organizations ...

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