Second generation web services-oriented architecture in production in the finance industry

Effective and affordable business process integration is a key concern in the finance industry. A large German joint-use centre, supplying services to 237 individual savings banks, enhanced the integration capabilities of its core banking system, consisting of more than 500 complex functions, through aggressive use of Web services. Advanced requirements such as heterogeneous client environment, sub-second response times, 300% traffic growth, and interface complexity did challenge today's Web services implementations. To achieve true interoperability between Microsoft (MS) Office™/.NET™ and Java™, and to implement more than 500 Web service providers in a short time frame were two of the most important issues that had to be solved. The current, second release of this solution complies with the Web Services Inter

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: OOPSLA
• Authors: Olaf Zimmermann, Sven Milinski, Michael Craes, Frank Oellermann
• Keywords: Business Process Integration, OOPSLA 2004, Web Services, Web Services Implementations