The globalization of the world economy leads to the
proliferation of service-oriented businesses.
Enterprises feel the excitement to leverage the
internet to expand their customer bases, yet at the
same time they feel the urge to reduce operation
cost by using low-cost online service offerings to
power their product line. Thus developing in-house
Web Services while reusing and composing existing
Web Services undergird the modern revolution of
enterprise IT divisions. This book strikes a balance
between theory and practice by analyzing the
fundamental concerns facing the evolution of
enterprise software to the modern Service-Oriented
Architecture, and presents novel software
engineering approaches to tackle those hard issues
during software development life cycles. Both
academic researchers and industry professionals will
benefit from the unique perspectives that can be
found throughout this book.
proliferation of service-oriented businesses.
Enterprises feel the excitement to leverage the
internet to expand their customer bases, yet at the
same time they feel the urge to reduce operation
cost by using low-cost online service offerings to
power their product line. Thus developing in-house
Web Services while reusing and composing existing
Web Services undergird the modern revolution of
enterprise IT divisions. This book strikes a balance
between theory and practice by analyzing the
fundamental concerns facing the evolution of
enterprise software to the modern Service-Oriented
Architecture, and presents novel software
engineering approaches to tackle those hard issues
during software development life cycles. Both
academic researchers and industry professionals will
benefit from the unique perspectives that can be
found throughout this book.