Reliability is a key issue of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) which is widely employed in critical domains such as e-commerce and e-government. Redundancy-based fault tole...
Web Services (WSs) are the W3C-endorsed realization of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Since they are supposed to be implementation-neutral, WSs are typically tested blac...
Web Services have experienced great interest during the last years as they were expected to play a key role as enablers of seamless application-to-application integration both wit...
of abstractions a middleware system makes available to applications, they figure prominently in determining the breadth and variety of application integration that the middleware s...
Rapid acceptance of the Web Services architecture promises to make it the most widely supported and popular object-oriented architecture to date. One consequence is that a wave of...
Kenneth P. Birman, Robbert van Renesse, Werner Vog...