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	<title>Abstract</title>
	<para>In complex IT environments it is often necessary to integrate
		different information systems with each other, exchange data between
		software tools and automate actions based on events arising from user
		interaction. Web Services is a popular way to make remote functions
		available to a broad range of clients. A WebService is independent
		from platforms and programming languages. XML Messages are exchanged
		through common protocols like TCP/IP or SMTP, processed and returned
		(request/ response paradigm).</para>
	<para>Because of their nature, WebServices are a great technology to
		overcome system boundaries and to "orchestrate" your IT environment.
		They make up the basis for SOA and are the pieces that assemble
		automated business processes.</para>
	<para>XServices is a collection of pre-build WebServices with the
		intention to avoid duplicate work and "re-inventing the wheel". The
		historical base for XServices is the 'XBridgeNG' software, which
		provided a set of Apache Ant Tasks with quite the same intention. The
		available WebService operations are most likely the "most wanted"
		ones, some of them for sure are "must have". This collection may
		overlap with other libraries. In summary the current version contains
		8 WebServices with over 50 operations.</para>
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