Paper title:

A Web Service Framework for Economic Applications

Published in: Issue 1, (Vol. 4) / 2010
Publishing date: 2010-03-30
Pages: 14-19
Author(s): Dan Benta
Abstract. The Internet offers multiple solutions to link companies with their partners, customers or suppliers using IT solutions, including a special focus on Web services. Web services are able to solve the problem related to the exchange of data between business partners, markets that can use each other's services, problems of incompatibility between IT applications. As web services are described, discovered and accessed programs based on XML vocabularies and Web protocols, Web services represents solutions for Web-based technologies for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper presents a web service framework for economic applications. Also, a prototype of this IT solution using web services was presented and implemented in a few companies from IT, commerce and consulting fields measuring the impact of the solution in the business environment development.
Keywords: Web Service Framework, XML, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL.
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