Web Services: A Java™ Developer’s Guide Using E-Speak

Chapter 13. E-services and Web Services

• Service Invocation

• Security Provisions

• Low-Level Interoperability Infrastructure

• High-Level Interoperability Infrastructure

• Service Description

• Service Registries

• Orchestration of Public Business Processes

• Integration with Behind-the-Firewall Workflows

• Summary

In Chapter 1, we briefly touch on the differences between the two industry terms, e-service and web service. Although Hewlett-Packard’s (HP’s) e-service vision incubated the industry thought around Internet-based services, the term web services has (like most children do) gone off to have a slightly different meaning. The difference between these two terms and related concepts is mainly caused by the technologies supporting the different service visions. ...