http://carriagereturn.org/ Graham King A daily dose of software engineering wisdom - inspiring, thought provoking, and sometimes just plain dangerous. Creative-Commons Attribution Share-alike Go http://carriagereturn.org/165/ Enterprise Application Integration and Service Oriented Architectures (for example Web services) share many similarities: They consist of distributed components or applications, developed in different languages and running on multiple platforms, connected by a synchronous or asynchronous messaging infrastructure.