Chapter Summary

When should your organization adopt Web services? The answer depends largely on two factors: (1) the skill set of your programmers (particularly in the areas of object programming and messaging architecture), and (2) your organization's need (open new markets, reduce development costs, etc.).

As illustrated in earlier chapters, hundreds of organizations are currently using Web services to perform a variety of tasks. Visit www.Xmethods.com, as well as Microsoft and IBM Web sites, for examples of customers and applications that have currently been developed.

Much activity to date in terms of Web services development has been focused on B2B transactions as well as on reducing application development costs.

From a B2B perspective the important point is that Web services are based on a message-passing store-and-forward architecture that lends itself nicely to conducting transactions between business partners. And writing XML and Web services applications is reported to be easier than using EDI (although EDI is more sophisticated, reliable, and secure at the present time).

With respect to reducing application development costs, many enterprises are starting to consolidate all of their application objects into internal registries. They hope to reduce development costs by encouraging application developers to make use of already existing application objects rather than constantly reinventing-the-wheel with redundant application objects.

Finally, many organizations are starting to recognize that Web services offer them the potential to open new markets, or to service existing markets in new and different ways.

When should your organization adopt Web services? Now if your organization has a need to consolidate existing application objects, or can take advantage of Web services to reduce application development costs, or has found a way to open new markets. By 2005 if your organization is looking to capitalize on a vast application database that will manifest itself in public UDDI directories of the future.



Web Services Explained. Solutions and Applications for the Real World
Web Services Explained, Solutions and Applications for the Real World
ISBN: 0130479632
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 115
Authors: Joe Clabby

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