Abstract. The security requirements of complex multi-tier web applications have shifted from simple localized needs, such as authentication or authorization, to physically distribu...
Web Services are an emerging software technology that employ XML to share and exchange data. They may serve as wrappers for legacy data sources, integrate multiple remote data sou...
Based on the framework of service-oriented architecture (SOA), complex distributed systems can be dynamically and automatically composed by integrating distributed Web services pr...
One of the main advantages of the Web component-based development paradigm is the ability to build customizable and composable web application modules as independent units of devel...
that negotiation is a powerful abstract notion for the coordination of generic services available from distributed components. This is the main motivation underlying the developme...