Preface

The widely adopted and implemented core Web services standards (SOAP and WSDL) have achieved unprecedented interoperability across highly disparate software systems. As a result, new Web services standards have been proposed for extended features such as security, reliability, transactions, metadata management, and orchestration that extend Web services for use in a broad range of new applications.

The service-oriented architecture (SOA) has also become widely recognized for its important role in information technology projects. An SOA is a style of design that guides an organization during all aspects of creating and using business services (including conception, modeling, design, development, deployment, management, versioning, and retirement). ...

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