New Developments in Information Technologies

By Weiss, L.W. 

Sugars International LLC, 30 Glenmoor Dr., Englewood, Colorado 80113 USA
E-mail: WWeiss@SugarsOnline.com

Abstract 

The development of Extensible Markup Language (XML) is leading to new inter-application communication that will provide more flexibility for software utilization in an
enterprise. Initially, XML data is passed between programs in a manual asynchronous
manner for programs that do not need continuous interaction; for example, importing
factory data into the Sugars modeling program to provide on demand heat, material and
color balances along with the net process revenues for the factory. In the future, Web
services can be used to provide synchronous or asynchronous interactions using Web
Services Description Language (WSDL) and SOAP for message passing in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to provide interactive communications and functionality
between software applications used by a sugar company.

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