Practical Use of Web Services
Thus far, I've given you a set of abstract reasons why Web services are an attractive idea. But unless you've designed many Web applications or struggled with application integration issues, these reasons may not strike a chord. Let me provide a more practical motivation.
At various points in the different projects, you may have found yourself wanting to incorporate data from another Web site directly into your Web application. Assuming there are no ethical problems (i.e., you're not stealing someone else's copyrighted content), the process is pretty simple. It doesn't take more than a few lines of Java in your EJB or servlet to download a remote Web page and repackage selected parts of it for distribution to your ...
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