The current slate of Web services standards has evolved into a mature set of
very useful API's and into service-oriented architectures, or SOAs.
Enterprise integration, however, includes many requirements that are not met
by SOAs alone. A movement is under way to augment Web services with a new set
of standards that address the other side of integration - Event Driven
Architectures, or EDAs.
The wave that pushed Web services to the forefront of the worldwide developer
community's consciousness has left behind a working set of standards that
allow organizations to effectively cooperate in processes over the Internet.
Web services standards enable organizations to realize some of the goals of
integration in a standards-based and, even more importantly, interoperable
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