Legacy assets meet SOAP
THE ONGOING CONVERSATION about Web services invariably turns
to barriers to adoption. A major roadblock, people say, is that
would-be consumers of services find few available. This classic
chicken-and-egg dilemma may shortly untangle itself. Many existing
assets, including SQL stored procedures and CORBA, COM (Component
Object Model), and EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) components, can now
be offered as Web services with very little effort. Simply wrapping
Web services interfaces around legacy assets is no panacea. But
services created in this way, although unglamorous and easy to
overlook, are about to become common. And they may be more
important than we think. [Full story at
InfoWorld.com.]
Former URL: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2002/10/07.html#a436