Advancing Interoperability Through Enterprise Web Mapping Services
Xavier Lopez-ORACLE CORPORATION
Geospatial technologies are rapidly transitioning from desktop solutions to Web and wireless services. The advance of mapping and location services from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, exemplify the high-end consumer portals and their requirement to be highly scalable, reliable and secure. At the enterprise level, the requirements for interoperability are also important in the delivery of location-enabled business content. Enterprise web services reflect a much higher level of integration with business process and much greater availability across an organization. In nearly all cases, smaller numbers of large servers are being used to consolidate databases, resulting in lower costs, improved reliability, heightened security, and dramatic improvement in quality of services. This paper highlights two major software infrastructure technologies (databases and application servers) necessary for deploying this new class of real-time, location-enabled web services. The ongoing transition to service oriented architectures and semantically rich applications are also discussed..