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Technology Stocks : BEA Systems (BEAS) - Undiscovered Growth Stock
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To: sandintoes who wrote (2335)8/1/2003 6:26:20 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (1) of 2477
 
this is what web services is all about. I'm not sure if you know what web services are, but BEAS is the only pureplay in web services.

As a practical example for those that don't know, say I am toys r us, I have a deal with amazon to do fulfillment. In the past I would take the order and package it up in an XML document and use some kind of XML gateway or EDI, whatever, the transaction gets uploaded into the amazon system leading to all kinds of parsing errors and (most notably) loses the real-time advantage. You get stockouts when you accept orders and have to integrate with some other system for fulfillment.

Now with web services, theoretically toys r us just accesses the web service from amazon directly and links to it on their site. Here are the amzn web services,

At Amazon, we want to see Web services work. We believe they are important to the future of the Internet. To help stimulate Web service innovation, we now offer software developers the opportunity to integrate Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk features and content directly into other Web sites using either SOAP or XML over HTTP. Partner with the leader in e-commerce and join the Web services revolution today!
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