Web Services: A Java™ Developer’s Guide Using E-Speak

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EAI.

Enterprise Application Integration. A business computing term for the plans, methods, and tools aimed at modernizing, consolidating, and coordinating the computer applications in an enterprise.

ebXML.

Electronic Business eXtended Markup Language. A project to use the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) to standardize the secure exchange of business data. Among other purposes, ebXML would encompass and perhaps replace a familiar standard called Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). ebXML is designed to enable a global electronic marketplace in which enterprises of any size, and in any location, could safely and securely transact business through the exchange of XML-based messages.

Ecosystem.

A collection of related services. This collection, ...