Web Services in Theory and Practice

People work on the road, in airports, at home, and at the office. No matter where or when they're working, they want the same access to content that they would have if they were sitting in their office. In these days of random hacking and other senseless acts of computer violence, how do you give the people what they need to do their jobs wherever they may be while avoiding long delays or sacrificing computer security?

Certainly, part of the answer to the question of access has to include the Web—if for no better reasons than its ubiquity and familiarity. At best, though, it's only part of the answer because it's not enough to build an interface from computer systems that opens them up to the Web; there are too many security risks involved and too much time can be lost while custom software solutions are developed.

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