Now that Java/J2EE and Microsoft.NET are the primary programming models for enterprise applications, developers must often interconnect the two to create applications. In marketing presentations, IBM, Microsoft, and other platform vendors often advise use of Web services to attack .NET and Java/J2EE interoperability. In reality, even these vendors agree that Web services are ideal for loosely coupled integration but inadequate for other requirements. Integration and porting technologies for these purposes are available from both the platform vendors and specialists like Codemesh and Mainsoft. Eventually, Web services technologies will be more broadly useful, but in the meantime, alternatives to Web services will be essential for many clients.
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