Loosely Coupled glossaryDefinitions of terms and concepts in web services and process automationAON- August 11, 2005 (Application-Oriented Networking) Using network devices to help with integration. Application-oriented networking has arisen in response to increasing use of XML messaging (combined with related standards such as XSLT, XPath and XQuery) to link miscellaneous applications, data sources and other computing assets. Many of the operations required to mediate between these different participants, or to monitor their exchanges, can be built into network devices that are optimized for the purpose. The.http://looselycoupled.com/glossary/AON |