The influence of web services on software: Potentials and tasks
Frank Leymann · 2004
Abstract: Web services have been introduced about four years ago. Standardization is making a lot of progress as well as corresponding product support by vendors. We sketch some likely high-level impacts of this technology on software in general: On the software representing the environment for executing applications, on the software that represents the application itself, and on the way of using software. 1