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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<abstract>
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			<title>Abstract</title>
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			<para>In complex IT environments it is necessary to integrate
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				different information systems with each other, exchange data
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				between
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				tools and automate actions and function calls depending
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				on events
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				arising from user interaction. To meet the requirements
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				of
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				integration building usually means to implement APIs and to
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				create
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				tool-to-tool bridges. Web Services can help to clean up
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				bridges into
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				interfaces as well as to abstract functions from
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				their underlying
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				platform and implementation.</para>
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			<para>These are the major goals of the loosely coupled
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				integration
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				strategy which is in turn one essential idea of a
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				service-oriented
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				architecture (SOA).</para>
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			<para>provide a low level set of functions and web services.
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				These can
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				be orchestrated into services and used in business
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				processes which
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				make up the execution part of a SOA
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				environment.</para>
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			<para>is an add-on to XBridgeNG 2.0. It runs standalone or in
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				combination with XBridgeNG. Pure XBridgeNG has two
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				components:</para>
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			<para>
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				<itemizedlist>
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					<listitem>
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						<para>XML Schema for item based data types (e.g. tickets
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							from a bug
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							tracker system or a database record)</para>
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					</listitem>
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					<listitem>
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						<para>Set of Apache Ant tasks to function as a bridge
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							between the
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							XBridgeNG XML format at legacy 3rd party
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							software (e.g. HP Quality
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							Center, Serena TeamTrack,
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							...)</para>
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					</listitem>
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					<listitem>
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						<para>The add Web Services (SOAP) wrapper around Apache Ant
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							tasks
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							(since XBridgeNG 2.0)</para>
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					</listitem>
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				</itemizedlist>
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			</para>
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			<para>The current focus is on file-based operations. do not
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				contain an
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				integration server or a process execution
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				engine.</para>
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		</abstract>
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