3.6. Web Services-Enabling Your Applications

3.6.1. Bringing the Technology Together

So far, we have reviewed different enabling technologies separately. But each of them is part of a much bigger picture. We need to bring the technology pieces together in order to build a workable Web Services solution.

Figure 3-31 illustrates some ideas on how to bring the technology pieces together.

Figure 3-31. Bringing the Enabling Technology Together

Figure 3-31 depicts how business data in the existing transaction processing system or legacy system can be exchanged with trading partners using Java, XML and Web Services technologies. These enabling technologies ...

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