Kaj van de Loo is the director of the product strategy for SAP’s Global Web services strategy. His responsibility includes taking into account the impact of Web services upon business strategy coupled with implications to technology and applications. Kaj previously served as director of Application Development, leading one of the first major Java development teams within SAP.
Web services have been touted as a really "big thing" in the software
industry the last couple of years, and that is for good reason: they promise
technical interoperability between platforms from different vendors, an
hitherto unheard-of thing in an industry plagued by proprietary
non-compatible solutions.
IBut does anybody really care about platform interoperability? Isn't it
something else we are after? In this article, we'll explain what Web services
are and what they are not, and take a look at what we need beyond Web
services to get to where we want to be.
The first time I heard of Web services I was excited. Imagine being able to
link your application to any other application out there. You could build
really nice, lightweight "apps-on-apps" - i.e., applications that do exactly
what they are supposed to do and reuse data and functionality from existing
appl... (more)
Kaj van de Loo is the director of the product strategy for SAP’s Global Web services strategy. His responsibility includes taking into account the impact of Web services upon business strategy coupled with implications to technology and applications. Kaj previously served as director of Application Development, leading one of the first major Java development teams within SAP.
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