Abstract. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an emerging software engineering paradigm for developing distributed enterprise applications. In this paradigm, Web services ar...
Service-based approaches are widely used to integrate heterogenous systems. Web services allow for the definition of highly dynamic systems where components (services) can be dis...
—Developing service compositions, using multiple standards and implementation techniques, typically involves specifying service characteristics in different languages and tools. ...
Web services are designed for composition and use by third parties through dynamic discovery. As such, the issue of interoperability between services is of great importance to ens...
Business rules change quite often. These changes cannot be handled efficiently by representing business rules embedded in the source code of the business logic. Efficient handli...