Web Services Ebusiness
The Web services architecture is, at its core, a way for applications to integrate with one another through the intelligent interchange of messages. For the enterprise, this means the exchange of critical business information such as purchase orders, contracts, and requests for quotes (RFQs). Because of the critical nature of this information, businesses must be assured of the reliability of the underlying messaging architecture.
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Why Web Services?
- Growing need for light-weight, standard way of offering services
- Need for standardizing publishing, discovering, and subscribing services
- Need for global-scale communication infrastructure
- Need to handle dynamic nature of network, applications
