Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture

by Tom Welsh

Over the past 18 months, we have toured the Web services world -- from standards to tools and from interoperability to security. You might think that there would not be much left to explore, but you would be mistaken. Web services began as a simple, lightweight means of letting applications chat across networks; but they have evolved into nothing less than the future of middleware, and there seems no end to their ramifications.

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Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture March 2004