Creating DBE services from existing applications

Web Services, Service Oriented Architectures and Digital Business Ecosystems are becoming key concepts in the Software Development World. Software developers are keen to know more about these new developments and are also interested knowing how to get on board with their existing applications.

The key characteristics of software services developed for the new paradigm are loose coupling, reusability and open standards. These characteristics are important and lead a new focus in software development towards development of new software services. However for existing applications to be migrated to the DBE the requirement is to develop a service adapter to eanble access. The adapter is a simple Java programme. Information for creating web services from existing applications is available from this site - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-legacy/. The requirement for the DBE is similar.