z/TPF Application Modernization using Standard and Open Middleware

Technologies

This chapter provides brief descriptions of the technologies being used in subsequent chapters of this book. This chapter is not intended to be an exhaustive and detailed learning guide, and for this reason, in many places the chapter refers to corresponding websites where the specific details can be found.

This chapter contains the following topics:

•2.1, “Service-oriented architecture” on page 18

•2.2, “Web services” on page 20

•2.3, “Extensible Markup Language” on page 24

•2.4, “Service Data Objects” on page 27