Decision time for users as .net and J2EE compete to be the architecture of choice

摘要

For the past few years there has been a great deal of effort from the IT industry to promote the concept of web services, an umbrella term for a set of technologies that allow two or more computers to work together using standard protocols. For many years users have struggled to make IT systems from different suppliers work together. Their ultimate goal was to link up all islands of information to enable seamless flows of information around the business. Early attempts involved complex enterprise application integration projects, often resulting in hundreds, if not thousands, of custom links between systems, leading to an IT maintenance nightmare.