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340 <strong>B2B</strong> <strong>Integration</strong> — A <strong>Practical</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Collaborative</strong> E-<strong>commerce</strong><br />

projects. Web Services technology works hand-in-hand in .NET and<br />

J2EE technologies, rather than as a competing technology. For instance,<br />

J2EE connec<strong>to</strong>rs give developers an interface for accessing legacy<br />

transactions and data, whereas Web services provide a uniform, standardsbased<br />

technique for exposing application functionality over the Internet<br />

or the corporate intranet.<br />

11.10.2. Build an internal reposi<strong>to</strong>ry for Web Services<br />

Early on in their adoption of Web Services, companies should make an<br />

effort <strong>to</strong> develop an internal centralized service reposi<strong>to</strong>ry for publishing<br />

information that internal applications can use <strong>to</strong> find information about<br />

published Web Services. If each group and department starts maintaining<br />

their own reposi<strong>to</strong>ry, over time there will be several reposi<strong>to</strong>ries within<br />

the company, making the publishing, discovery and use of Web Services<br />

a painful and time consuming process.<br />

11.10.3. Bot<strong>to</strong>m line<br />

Web Services, by themselves, are not the nirvana for EAI or <strong>B2B</strong>i. An<br />

EAI and/or <strong>B2B</strong>i platform within a Fortune 500 company would still<br />

comprise multiple solutions which <strong>to</strong>gether would offer both non-real<br />

time and real-time integration, support for managing semantic<br />

transformations, business process integration and application integration,<br />

based on open standards and proprietary formats.<br />

11.11. Web Services Networks<br />

The use of Web services for <strong>B2B</strong>i will be enabled through the emergence<br />

of trusted managers, known as Web services networks. Web services<br />

networks will be built on open Internet standards, including Web services.<br />

They will take on the responsibility for managing the security, transaction<br />

management, versioning, publishing, finding and deploying Web services.<br />

They will help in overcoming the biggest hurdle of using third party Web<br />

services for <strong>B2B</strong>i — the inherent unreliability of unqualified sources.<br />

Grand Central Network is an example of such a Web services oriented<br />

network.

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