Create and Consume Services

Most organizations have multiple systems, each designed for a specific purpose. They might have systems for finance, HR, order management, inventory, customer service, and more. Each application houses specific business processes. However, most organizations need to unlock these business processes from their applications and reuse them as part of an integrated solution. This is where service-oriented solutions have helped. By exposing an application’s business process as a service, multiple clients can take advantage of that process.

The promise of code reuse has been with us a long time. However, service-oriented code reuse became very popular with the advent of web services. The ubiquitous nature of HTTP and port ...

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