Web Services Impact
eWeek | at | by Mike
eWEEK Labs examines how Web services has and will change your company's core IT foundation, from security to database access, development, mobile computing and directory integration.
It's not that Web services are particularly efficient or fast, either. Just the opposite: The text-based protocols used by Web services typically require 10 times the bytes of a binary protocol to send the same information and have to be transformed at both ends into binary form, a relatively slow and CPU-intensive process. Moreover, a glaring lack of security infrastructure has been obvious to Web services observers ever since the technology was first discussed. However, what is more important than all these issues-important though they are-is that never before has such a large portion of the technology industry agreed on a single way to call functions on a remote system.