Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web Services can improve reuse and improve agility. This session includes demonstrations of two i5/ OS customers who have service enabled their core i5/ OS applications to provide improved reuse of existing applications and delivery of new composite
applications based on their existing RPG 5250 applications.

By the end of this session, attendees will be able to
1. Understand Web services and SOA concepts.
2. Understand the steps required to create web services interfaces for existing RPG and COBOL programs.
3. Appreciate the business value that Web services based reuse can deliver from existing i5/ OS applications.