16.1. E-Speak Technology

Although the e-Speak technology provided the interaction engine in a service economy, it is morphing greatly from a large, contained instance to a set of components that together serve as the runtime environment for e-services and web services. E-Speak was an early market-defining product for web services. Since its introduction, a number of standards have emerged, standards that deal with such things as:

  • The underlying communication protocols (SOAP)

  • The service interaction languages (WSDL, Web Services Flow Language [WSFL])

  • The registry that stores these standards-based web services (UDDI)

Additionally, there is an emerging development platform with Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). HP is transitioning to this new standards-based ...

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