Portal projects leveraging web services
Before diving into the technical details of web services in your models, we find it important to provide some background information about what happens before the WEF development team gets to the point where they will be consuming the defined web services.
The implementation of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become standard throughout most enterprises. As such, web services are an integral part of any SOA project.
In order to successfully deliver a project involving such architecture, a tight coordination between all the technology stacks is a must.
As we have seen in chapters four and five, in analysis and architectural design; portal SOA and WEF architects worked together on the specifications and integration of the SOA layer with the portal layer.
In this brief section, we will focus on the existing relationship between the WEF development team and the other teams directly involved in the delivery of our Portal Solution. As the creation...
