Web Services: Quo Vadis?
Christoph J. Bussler, Dieter Fensel · ARAN (University of Galway Research Repository) (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway) · 2003
For some time now Web Services are touted as the technology-based solution to many different significant integration problems in information technology.These integration problems are of a so different nature that the following question cannot be avoided and must be asked right now: Web Services: Quo Vadis?This article illustrates the currently existing immense discrepancy between the magnitude of the integration problems and the simplistic functionality provided by Web Services, the impossibility to address all these integration problems with equal fidelity and it brings forward a proposal for the future direction of Web Services being able to cope with the most complex problems in the solution space in form of the Web Service Modeling Framework (WSMF).