12 Developing Web Services Using CICS, WMQ, and WMB
2.1 An introduction to SOA
There is an increasing demand for technologies to support the connecting or
sharing of resources and data in a flexible and standardized way, which
becomes a challenge when there are different implementations of this
technology both across and within company boundaries. A service-oriented
approach not only standardizes this approach, but also allows for greater
flexibility in the process. The trend is the desire for companies to easily provide
services, share data, and use services from other businesses.
With an SOA solution, your programs can be on different systems and be
provided by different vendors, and yet communicate and exchange data with
each other. By deplo ...