Preface
The CICS® Transaction Server is used extensively for high-volume transaction processing. Because new IT solutions are rarely deployed on a single IT system and reuse of existing assets is a common goal, integration between CICS and other systems is a frequent requirement.
The IT industry has converged on a set of common standards and principles that have led to the emergence and maturity of the service-oriented architecture model (SOA) of IT integration. The SOA style of integration involves breaking an application down into common, repeatable “services” that can be used by other applications, both internal and external, in an organization, independent of the computing platforms on which the business and its partners rely.
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