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Plug-ins

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DEFINITION: Plug-in applications are programs that can easily be installed and used as part of your Web browser. Initially, the Netscape browser allowed you to download, install, and define supplementary programs that played sound or motion video or performed other functions. These were called helper  … 
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The Economics of SOA: Quantifying the Savings of a Service-Oriented Architecture
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Jul 2007 | Published: 01 Jul 2007
SUMMARY: This case study describes how a telecom company calculated and compared costs of a traditional EAI approach to an Enterprise Service Bus solution and which solution yielded the most efficient cost savings.

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PLUG-INS DEFINITION (continued): …  applications. However, these applications run as a separate application and require that a second window be opened. A plug-in application is recognized automatically by the browser and its function is integrated into the main HTML file that is being presented.

Among popular plug-ins to download are Adobe's Acrobat, a document presentation and navigation program that lets you view documents just as they look in the print medium, RealNetworks' streaming video player, … 
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