Outlook
Throughout this book we have tried to balance two conflicting perspectives. One sees Web services as a revolutionary technology triggering radical changes in the way we think about middleware, application integration, or the way we use the Internet. The o
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Editorial Board P. Bernstein U.Dayal C. Faloutsos J.C. Freytag G.Gardarin W.Jonker V. Krishnamurthy H.Lu M.-A. Neimat P. Valduriez G.Weikum J.Widom
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
Gustavo Alonso • Fabio Casati Harumi Kuno • Vijay Machiraju
Web Services Concepts, Architectures and Applications
With 143 Figures
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Gustavo Alonso Dept. of Computer Science ETH Zentrum, 8092 Zurich Switzerland Fabio Casati Harumi Kuno Vijay Machiraju Hewlett-Packard 1501 Page Mill Road, MS 1142 Palo Alto, CA, 94304 USA Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at .
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Preface
Motivation for the Book When confronted with technological advances, we often overestimate their potential in the short term and underestimate what will actually happen in the long term. Short-term hype results from the desires of industry, academia, funding agencies, and financial institutions to make the most of new ideas in as short a time span as possible. Long-term unpredictability reflects the chaotic nature of the process whereby society adopts new technologies. Web services are no exception to this rule-neither in the current hype nor in the lack of a clear understanding of how they will evolve. This makes it extre
