Chapter 5

Technical Forces Driving the Adoption of Web Services

There are two aspects to Web services. One aspect is the vocabulary of the message being sent. The other is the communications protocol that is used to send the message. This chapter will analyze the forces driving both aspects by looking at two representational examples of what was used before the advent of Web services. The examples in this part show that advances in technology and standards have diminished the number of restraining forces, making change more likely to occur.

This chapter introduces force field analysis and applies it to the adoption of Web services. Force field analysis will also be used in the next two chapters on service-oriented architecture and cloud computing. ...

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