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