The Road to Web Services

Most things in software engineering happen for a very good reason—or, at least, we hope so. This is how concepts such as abstraction and encapsulation have become mainstream. As with any technology, we learn from past mistakes and capitalize upon our successes.

Web Services are no different. They have materialized from a variety of Web technologies that have been proven to work in the widely distributed environment of the Internet. The Internet itself has evolved over the years, spawning many new ideas and concepts that have contributed to the Web Service approach.

Waves of the Internet

Since the beginning of the Internet, many changes have come about in networking technology, security, system scalability, and many other ...

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