Web Services and Enterprises
On the surface, Web services appear to be a risky proposition for enterprises. Why will IT organizations that have demanded full control over all aspects of enterprise applications adopt a distributed and shared software architecture that moves administrative control over various parts of applications outside of the enterprise firewall? The runtime characteristics of Web services-based applications will have critical dependencies on remotely hosted and remotely managed external businesses. This is a severe departure from the centrally controlled as well as the guaranteed predictability and reliability that have become the hallmarks of enterprise software and the IT organizations that manage them.
The reasons for this ...
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