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Title:
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WEB SERVICES: WONDER OR WOE? |
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Author(s):
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Tosca Lahiri , Mark Woodman , Owen Hanson |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-44-7 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías , Miguel Baptista Nunes and João Barroso (associate editors Luís Rodrigues and Patrícia Barbosa) |
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Year:
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2007 |
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Edition:
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V I, 2 |
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Keywords:
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Interoperability, Process, State, Engineering, Web Services |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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209 |
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Last Page:
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216 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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This summative paper investigates the central features of web services in order to determine whether they are a positive
development. We are considering whether web services will bring about wide-ranging interoperability. We look at the
central definitions of web services then consider four intrinsic features of web service architecture; we look at whether
web services are a recent form of distributed computing; we assess whether web services are stateless or not and propose
a solution to this issue; we explore whether web services exist to deliver content on the web or whether they exist to
create business processes via the Internet; finally we investigate whether web services are an evolutionary or
revolutionary development in software engineering. By addressing these questions we are assessing the value of web
services to software developers and to the business community. This work represents an evaluation of the web service
model and contributes by highlighting strengths and weaknesses in that model. We believe that the evidence indicates
that web services have considerable architectural potential in the area of software interoperability. |
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