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Swedish Referendum Results Delivered in Real Time Over the Internet Using Web Se

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Published: 30 November -0001
On Sunday, September 14, 2003, the Swedish electorate will discover whether the country will join the European Monetary Union (EMU) and adopt the Euro currency. As the voting takes place, the Swedish Election Authority, which is responsible for organizing and managing the country's elections and referendums, will deliver the results in real time over the Internet. The system has been built by Init AB using Web Services created and deployed on Cape Clear Software's Web Services platform. "This application is a great example of e-government in action, with the immediate availability of the very latest referendum information and results online," commented Ulf Aronsson, CEO at Init AB. "From an IT perspective, Web Services simplify the whole process of building applications and services, which enable us to bring together different types of information and systems and then make them available on the Internet."

"There is something very fitting about using Web Services to deliver the results of a referendum," according to Annrai O'Toole, CEO at Cape Clear Software. "Here we have a technology that is taking the integration process out of the hands of a few and making it available to the many. Web Services is simply removing the cost and complexity of integrating applications and data sources. The result is that we can now enable a host of new services, just like the referendum results, at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional alternatives. Web Services change the focus from what can you do, to what do you want to do."

The Swedish Referendum Application

The Election Authority is running two applications: firstly, the Voter Statistics application presents the number of voters divided by county and municipality. Secondly, the Election Results application then provides up-to-the-minute information on the number of votes for and against the referendum. These votes are also broken down by district and include information on which districts have finished their counting process.

The Web Services that are employed by the applications retrieve data from XML files over the Internet and then distribute that information to clients via the Internet. The applications themselves are built in Java and are deployed using Cape Clear's Web Services platform. Init has also published sample clients online for Microsoft Excel, Java, and Perl.

The referendum results are available from: www.val.se

The source (WSDL) files for the different Web Services are online:

The test clients are available at: Quelle: PRNewswire

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