Why Build Web Services Using Vendor-Provided Core Services?
Susan Aldrich · 2002
The Web Services specifications and standards have brought new focus on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). From the standpoint of reliability, flexibility, adaptability, and productivity, it is critical that common services be isolated from business logic rather then coded into each application. Early adopters and vendors of Web Services technologies are in the process of identifying required Web Services Infrastructure Services. Is it better to use vendors' versions of core services or to build your own?