The elements of Web services

Article By Tony Baer, Ron Schmelzer:

What technologies support Web services and what is ready for prime time? The answers can be confusing. Like any new technology, most of the current action surrounding Web services is just talk and experimentation. The basic building blocks have been laid, but questions abound about what additional pieces need to fall into place.

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Web Services Technologies & Trends

From its inception through 2002, the primary application for Web Services in the enterprise was to simplify point-to-point integration between systems, thereby reducing the cost of integration. This application of Web Services, however, only scratches the surface of the true potential of Web Services — enabling companies to build agile business processes and IT systems that can respond to change through the use of loosely coupled, standards-based Service-oriented architectures.

The business value of such architectures in terms of the business agility they provide is substantial, but as of early 2003, only a few early adopter enterprises have built such architectures, partly because few tools for building Service-oriented architectures are available on the market, and furthermore, there is little understanding of the best practices companies should follow to build such architectures. This report seeks to clarify the requirements for realizing the value of Web Services by providing a set of emerging best pra

Web Services Technologies and Trends

Web Services is the next evolution in distributed computing using XML as the means by which systems can expose and share computing functionality. The market for Web Services tools, comprised of Web Services Platforms, Application Development and Delivery Suites, and Operations Management is expected to grow to over $15.5 Billion by the end of 2005.