Editorial to the special issue 'Web services - architecture and infrastructure'

摘要

The recent success of the Web in general and especially the eager uptake of Web service technologies have demonstrated the benefits of loosely coupled software systems. Loose coupling is a central factor for flexible, maintainable, and adaptive systems. Based on loosely coupled architectures, Web technologies enable systems to achieve interoperability and to interact across technical and organisational boundaries. In the last few years, such systems are predominantly being developed following the service-oriented computing paradigm.