1. Web Services Overview and Service-Oriented Architectures
OKAY, ENOUGH WITH THE HYPE. Some have said that Web services promised to be everything to everyone, but clearly that isn’t going to happen. Where is the business benefit behind the Web services technologies? That’s what this book will attempt to explain, in the context of exploring the technologies themselves. Several things do seem to be true:
• According to many industry analyst reports, Web services are being used by the vast majority of Fortune 500 businesses.
• Web services technology promises to help small and medium businesses participate more effectively in supply chains of large organizations.
• Information technology (IT) vendors have adopted Web services (more or less) as ...
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