Foreword
Pat Helland, formerly of Microsoft, has a great acronym he likes to use when talking about interoperability: HST, or “Hooking Stuff Together.” (Actually, he uses an altogether different word there in the middle, but I’m told this is a family book, so I paraphrased.) No matter how much you dress it up in fancy words and complex flowcharts, interoperability simply means “Hooking Stuff Together”—something Web Services are all about.
Ever since the second computer came online, True Interoperability remains the goal that still eludes us. IT environments are home to a wide array of different technologies, all of which serve some useful purpose (or so I’m told). Despite various vendors’ attempts to establish their tool of choice as the sole/dominant ...
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