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discussed in section 1.2, “Why use CICS Web services” on page 3 and includes
simplified development processes, reduced development costs, and reduced
time to deployment.
CICS TS V3.1 delivers major new support for Web services, which is an
evolution of the functions previously provided as the SOAP for CICS optional
feature. These enhancements allow CICS-based applications to be exposed as
Web services, thus enabling existing applications to be integrated within a
service-oriented architecture (SOA). Chapter 2 develops the discussion
regarding the SOA terminologies and how these relate to CICS TS and Web
services.
There is also support for the WS-Atomic Transaction specification enabling
distributed transaction coordination ...