Introduction

In today's world, enterprise applications are the key to any enterprise. We are in the age of devices. People use one or multiple devices to be connected with the external world. Business processes need shared services, which can be consumed by these devices. Basically, an application can either consume data directly from the database tier or use loosely coupling models and get data from a hosted service. Most enterprises prefer to have a loose coupling on data so that their apps are maintained and also to sustain a clear separation of the application and business logic. Most of the big giants expose their data using standard compliant web-based services and the clients use them to consume data. Some of the services are also hosted behind the secure socket layer and require a secure encrypted connection between the host and the client to perform a data transfer.

Modern enterprises rely on standardized data points so heavily that many of them are now sharing public content...