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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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