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Article: Putting Web Services standards to work.
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- October 1, 2002
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"Web Services are really a new answer to an old problem," according to Daniel Austin, senior architect and architecture team lead for ebusiness at W. W. Grainger in Lincolnshire, Illinois. "The question is: How do we develop software applications that work well together in an heterogeneous, open-ended computer environment?"
It turns out that the answer is itself heterogeneous and open-ended. "Currently, the term 'Web Services' does not really have a unified meaning across the industry," says Abbie Barbir, senior designer for R&D at Nortel Networks in Ottawa, Canada. "It's a bit of a catch-all," agrees Steve Tuecke, lead software architect for the Globus Project ...