HedgeWeb strives to accelerate the virtual integration of businesses on the web by offering a generic XML-based infrastructure development platform for decomposing and integrating high-volume high-velocity high interactivity information and services. Optimized for event-driven application services in the financial service industry, HedgeWeb leverages proprietary technology and more than a decade of academic and industrial research on large-scale software reuse and financial engineering applications to provide a powerful solution that streamlines the decomposition and integration of both web-based and legacy content and application services.