Frank Sinton

Web services play an important role in building enterprise application architectures. These architectures, by nature, provide a blueprint describing software structure. This blueprint allows enterprise application architecture to be the confluence of business and technology, supporting business requirements and providing technology enablers. For enterprise application architecture to accomplish this task, Web services will play a critical role. In this article, I will discuss the vision for Web services within complex corporations, how it compares and fits versus EAI, and how to begin implementing Web services within a corporation. Background In order to understand the role of Web services in enterprise application architecture, the architecture must be fully understood. Enterprise application architecture is defined as "the structure of components, their interrelat... (more)