Practical Service Level Management: Delivering High-Quality Web-Based Services

Webbed Services and the Webbed Ecosystem

In this book, I use the term webbed services to describe the set of business services that are based on a component approach to systems design. This design is driven from the Web and its associated technologies, regardless of the specific technologies used. Because webbed services are constructed from a set of interconnected software components and services that can be reused in multiple places, they can usually avoid some of the expense, time, and effort associated with building and modifying monolithic applications.

Webbed services is a very inclusive term; it's increasingly difficult to find services that are not somehow tied into the Web. As a case in point, I was recently speaking about webbed services ...