This paper discusses the usage of Web Services for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Business-to-Business (B2B) Integration.
As companies move in the direction of collaborative business-to-business e-commerce, they will first have to look inward to their own internal systems, applications and processes. Several business processes span across multiple internal applications. These applications must be able to communicate dynamically in real-time before a company can effectively e-communicate with the outside world.
Most large enterprises have a network of homegrown, legacy mainframe, and packaged applications that need to share information and functionality. Unfortunately, most of these systems are proprietary to the vendor, and were written in different programming languages with different data structures. Integration middleware was developed to allow incompatible systems to communicate. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is used to integrate applications inside the firewall. B2B integration extends integration beyond the enterprise to customers, partners, and suppliers. The emerging Web Services model goes even further by defining a single set of standards for integration both inside and outside the enterprise. As a result, vendors in EAI and B2B markets will be profoundly affected by Web Services.
The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of methodology and implementation of web services for EAI and B2B integration.
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Web Services for EAI and B2B Integration (28071-29328-Web Services for EAI and B2B Integration.doc)
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