Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

Emerging Technologies

Everything we've discussed up to this point is commonly available and widely implemented in one way or another. (The only problem is that there isn't yet a widespread consensus on which of these pieces to use and for which requirements.) I can't close the discussion without giving you at least a preview of a few newer, less mature technologies. It's always hard to predict the future. However, my hunch is that it will be at least a few years before any of these find their way out into the mass market to the extent that EDI has (not that EDI has a big market, but this comparison at least gives us a frame of reference). Major players, both middleware vendors and big application vendors, are making investments in these technologies. ...