Companies that adopted and deployed early implementations of Web services
primarily focused on three fundamental areas: Developing Web services from
existing enterprise infrastructures to unlock the structured and unstructured
data managed within their various systems Providing the necessary monitoring
and management infrastructure for network-intensive Web services. This was
done to guarantee delivery of messages and ensure compliance with
service-level agreements (SLAs) and quality-of-service (QoS) contractual
requirements Deploying Web services components for use within composite
applications or business processes to increase system integration These early
implementations were driven by a need for greater efficiency in integrating
systems, data and business processes, and in development. As developers look
to expand the use of Web services and a services-oriented... (more)