| Abstract: |
The last year has seen a significant shift in the way we design and build enterprise systems. Well-established object oriented and component-based approaches have been replaced with one that focuses on services. Business applications are no longer conceived as a collection of components and views. A service often maps to a task carried out by a business and developers are presented with the challenge of turning business objects, such as Java beans, CICS and CORBA classes into services. In this context, Talking Blocks have developed a tool that drastically simplifies the tasks of both providing and consuming services based on existing software assets and also supplies a runtime capability which manages such things as audit logs, alerts, administration, rolling upgrades and security.
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