Application Development Trends - Web services and the... -
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Published on: 6/1/2004
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The reason for the interest is that many corporations want to use Web services ,to open up functionality in a way that allows them to be accessed through Unix and other platforms sitting in front of the mainframe,, explained Jim Bole, vice president, professional services at Infravio Inc., Cupertino, Calif. For applications sitting on the mainframe, people ,have to spend a lot of their time on exposing individual transactions -- CICS or IMS, or functions within the mainframe rather than entire apps,, Bole said.The advantage Web services offers over direct Web-to-mainframe integration -- as was done in the past few years -- is that Web services ,gives you the ability to access not only data but application processing or functionality,, he said.
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That,s important because once back-end services become available, people will begin to use them widely,, Bole said.
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Infravio,s Ensemble Web Services Management Suite ,leads you down to phases two and three of Fowler,s rollout,, Bole said.
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,The mainframe will be a provider of highly scalable services, and that,s where it has a huge role -- in Web services parlance, it will be called a superprovider,, Bole said.