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What are the major differences between EAI and Web services?

What are the major differences between EAI and Web services?

David Linthicum

What are the major differences between EAI and Web services? Do EAI tools make use of Web services protocols like SOAP/HTTP/XML to integrate applications together or are custom made APIs required to do the job?

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[Editor's note] David has answered similiar questions. Please check previous "Ask the Expert" questions and answers before submitting your questions.

In short, EAI is a framework of technology, including information-oriented, service-oriented, process-oriented, etc...Web services, including SOAP/HTTP/WSDL, are simple a set of enabling technologies and standards that allows you to achieve service-oriented EAI.

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