March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
11h 34m
English
Web services and portals can fit together like hand and glove. After all, both web services and a portal have a fundamental goal of systems integration. They both allow users to connect to disparate data sources, yet hide complexities of this connection such as protocol and syntax.
Web services can be vital as a means of content syndication, which means the repackaging of content that is created or managed elsewhere. Portals are often made up of components that extract information from many different sources. These information sources can be on the same machine, within the local area network, within a wide area network, or (thanks to web services) on the other side of the planet! Web services allow developers ...
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