Web Services - the new hope for EAI

摘要

Reports from Gartner and IDC say that Web Services will dominate IT market over the next 10 years. But what are 'Web Services' and do they offer the solution we had all hoped for from Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)? First, the definition. When a user is browsing a site on the Internet, he or she uses what is called a 'User Interface' to interact with the web site. Growing demand for process automation means that applications increasingly need to communicate with each other. When a user is in fact another application a programmatic interface is required and these interfaces are referred to as Web Services.