1.4. Typical Web Service Scenarios
Enterprise applications cover a wide spectrum of scenarios, such as interactions between business partners, supply chain management, inventory management, and even simple services (specialized converters, calculators, and so forth). Web services, when used strategically, can augment an application's functionality, but keep in mind that Web services are not an appropriate solution at every point in an application. While they do provide functional richness and interoperability, Web services may come at the price of increased performance overhead. Choosing when to implement a Web services-based solution comes down to addressing such issues as:
Interoperability requirements for the enterprise application in a heterogeneous ...
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