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Service-oriented architectures. (industry commentary).

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-FEB-02 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
While the short-term payoff of Web services technologies like SOAP and WSDL is faster, cheaper, simpler integration, I believe the long-term benefits will be more profound. Specifically, I think that Web services will catalyze a trend toward service-oriented architectures in which enterprises view their systems as an orchestrated web of services that extend beyond their firewalls into the systems of their partners and their customers. As I'll explain shortly, service-oriented architectures will require a new kind of distributed computing platform -- in a sense, an operating system for Web services -- that provides features like clustering, load balancing, fault tolerance, replication, and security in a way that is independent of the...

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