Mobile Middleware and Context for Service Composition
Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, Zakaria Maamar, Nanjangud C. Narendra · Auerbach Publications eBooks · 2016
The growth of Internet technologies is having a tremendous impact on the way businesses interact with their peers, customers, and sometimes competitors. To remain competitive, businesses need to take advantage of the information revolution that the Internet and the Web have both brought about. Most businesses are currently adopting Web-based solutions for their applications, aiming for more automation, efficient business processes, and worldwide visibility. Web services are among the technologies that help businesses be more Web oriented [20]. Web services can be defined as accessible software components that other applications and humans can discover and trigger. A Web service is associated with three properties [2]: (1) independent as much as possible from specific platforms and computing paradigms, (2) developed particularly for interorganizational situations, and (3) easily composable so that the development of complex adapters is not required.