Identical Principles, Higher Layers: Modeling Web Services as Protocol Stack
Mario Jeckle · 2004
Web Services and their potential applications are currently under heavy discussion in industry, research, and standardization. As a result of evaluation and experience by early adopters, the technology is expected to mature through the advent of new standards and solutions leveraging Web Service's power. In essence, the efforts undertaken to create and complete a stack of Web Service protocols lead to a new communication architecture and extends the stack of classical network protocols. This evolving architecture could serve as a future-proof infrastructure for businesses to rely on.