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:: Web Services and SOA News ::
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Challenges and rewards of integrating commercial Web data services
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Early in the development of Web services and SOA, application developers
began to focus on how to integrate various applications and their
elements – databases are perhaps the best example. Nowadays, there is a
wealth of data services available including products from the likes of
Thomson Reuters, Dun & Bradstreet and many others.
"It is an evolving and expanding world that includes giants and many
niche services, not only for financial data but things like weather,
resources, and technology," says Noel Yuhanna, an analyst at Forrester
Research. These "data services" are typically wrapped in XML, combined,
and then imported into various applications. To further facilitate
growing traffic, a range of niche players have emerged, complemented by
IT giants such as Microsoft and IBM.
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[Monday, July 19, 2010]
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