Assimilation of Web Ministration with Circulated Applications

A Web service is a distributed application component. Web services distributed computing model allows application-to-application communication. There is nothing fundamentally new about the basic concept and the related technologies. The innovative thing about this is the reach of Web services and its ubiquitous support by literally all major vendors. Most likely, heterogeneity will at the end no longer be an obstruction for distributed applications. Many industrial enterprises acquire disparate systems and applications over the years. The need to integrate these different systems and applications is often prominent for satisfying business requirements and needs. In an effort to help researchers in industrial informatics understand the state-of-the-art of the enterprise application integration This paper describes the concept of service-oriented architecture (SOA) in conjunction with the Web services technology and covers the core Web services specifications which form a powerful and robust foundation for building distributed systems. It is presented a case study regarding the integration of the Web services with the SAP system for handling interoperability issues. The need to integrate these different systems and applications is often prominent for satisfying business requirements and needs. In an effort to help researchers in industrial informatics understand the state-of-the-art of the enterprise application integration, this paper discusses the architectures and key technologies used for integrating distributed enterprise applications, illustrates their strengths and weaknesses, and identifies research trends and opportunities in this increasingly important area.