WG Intrusion and fraud detection for web services
Marc Daciér · 2008
Web services (WS) technology bears the promise to finally bring the power of SOA middleware to the road on a large scale and across organizational domains. Big players such as Google, Amazon, SAP, and IBM have already adopted the technology. European funding agencies are strongly believing and heavily investing into WSrelated technological developments and application scenarios. We expect a growing adoption and widespread use of Web services for different application areas, among them e.g. value added service composition, Web 2.0-enhanced communication systems (e.g. based on Ajax), and focused service offerings from specialized small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Definitions By the term Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) we denote a paradigm for the architecture of distributed systems, where loosely-coupled software components are encapsulated as services that can be accessed via interfaces that are published in a formal notation such that clients can easily make use of such services. WS technology is the most prominent technology for implementing a SOA. Web services come with