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Why Develop Web Services?

Apart from being a cool technology, Web services solve a number of business problems (or at least help technologists solve and simplify complex business problems). For instance, consider a large (or even small-to-medium) enterprise, where a number of technologies and frameworks (operating systems, programming languages, component models, databases) exist today. A number of these corporations have tried hard, with little success, to develop application development and integration technology standards, but the reality is still that departmental solutions (either a particular business unit or even a different group such as Research and Development) either choose to evaluate and implement cutting-edge technologies or shy ...