Chapter 14. Epilogue

Web services are at the very beginning of their reign as the infrastructure of choice for distributed computing systems and electronic commerce. We have seen in previous chapters how we can use current Web services technologies to create truly robust enterprise applications. In this chapter, we recap the set of current standards and take a look at both the future of Web services standards and platforms for building Web services, as well as the organizations that are driving the evolution technology into the future.

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