Enter Web Services
Despite the usual drawbacks of emerging technology, Web services—at least the notion of Web services—is an interesting technology for the world of inter- and intracompany application integration. Web services hold the promise of moving beyond the simple exchange of information—the dominating mechanism for application integration today—to the concept of accessing application services that are encapsulated within old and new applications. This means organizations can not only move information from application to application, they can also create composite applications, leveraging any number of back-end application services found in any number of applications, local or remote. This is the idea behind SOAI.
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