web services provide a way to allow efficient communication between disparate services. for years, enterprises have struggled to find reliable, cost-effective ways to integrate and automate critical processes between different application packages. web services technology has the potential to answer an enterprises needs, providing the ability to integrate different systems and application types regardless of platform, operating system, or location.
the key to the success of web services is the use of a common data exchange standard such as xml. through the use of this common language, enterprises can create reusable application components (web services) that can be linked together to cost-effectively create distributed enterprise applications with minimal development efforts.
vendors continue to design the framework and development environments necessary to build web services. however, the projected adoption rate is tremendous. according to estimates from gartner, web services will represent the "dominant mode of deployment for new application solutions for fortune 2000 companies" by 2004.
because web services could involve millions of users, the need to p... 下一页