Most large enterprises have a network of homegrown, legacy mainframe, and packaged applications that need to share information and () . Unfortunately, most of these systems are proprietary to the vendor, and were written in different programming languages with different data structures. Integration () was developed to allow () systems to communicate. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is used to integrate applications inside the () . B2B integration extends integration beyond the enterprise to customers, partners, and suppliers. The emerging Web Services () goes even further by defining a single set of standards for integration both inside and outside the enterprise. As a result, vendors in EAI and B2B markets will be profoundly affected by Web Services.
()A. network B. computers C. data D. functionality
()A. system B. component C. middleware D. module
()A. incompatible B. compatible C. similar D. dissimilar
()A. Internet B. LAN C. intranet D. firewall
()A. organization B. group C. model D. block