Impact

• increased use of XML and SOAP as carrier technologies

  • OAI - experimental implementation using SOAP
  • ZiNG - SRW (Search/Retrieve Web service) (Z39.50 using SOAP)

• use of WSDL to describe services

  • probably supplemented by other standards to describe content of collections

• use of portlet technologies

  • demise of monolithic portal applications
  • small, reusable functional building blocks
  • sharing of portlets between portals

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