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2.2 Key technologies
The following technologies are supported by WebSphere Business Integration
Server Foundation and WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration
Edition V5.1 and are related to service oriented architectures.
2.2.1 Web services
Web services are a relatively new technology that has received wide acceptance
as an important implementation of service oriented architecture. This is because
Web services provide a distributed computing approach for integrating extremely
heterogeneous applications over the Internet. The Web service specifications are
completely independent of programming language, operating system, and
hardware to promote loose coupling between the service consumer and provide