ABSTRACT
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The Internet, popularized in the 1990s with the advent of the World Wide Web (WWW), has become a foundation technology for today’s e-business applications. These applications enable diverse parties to communicate easily in
ad hoc
fashion. Previous to the wide use of the Internet, companies that participated in e-business used methods such as electronic data interchange (EDI), remote procedure call
(RPC), or the common object request broker architecture (CORBA) to communicate transactional data and information. While these methods are powerful and enable complex transactions to take place, they require significant setup on both sides. Today’s Internet allows companies much more flexibility in communicating with one another.
