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Other Web service standards are built upon these basic standards and
invocation models to provide higher level functions and qualities of service.
We will show later on how our sample application fits within this framework.
2.4 Implementing SOA on z/OS
SOA provides an increasing number of options for accessing existing assets on
z/OS. In a sense, the mainframe environment has always lent itself to the
concept of SOA because it regards all it’s resources as providing services.
Resources specifically designed for SOA capabilities are such components as
the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), process management engines (WPS), base
Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE™), WebSphere Application Server, and ...