Chapter 1

A Business Trip in the Not-Too-Distant Future

This is a story of a business trip in the not-too-distant future. It illustrates how a business traveler relies on service-oriented architectures. Those service-oriented architectures use Web services along with cloud computing.

The term Web services can be confusing. It is often used in different ways. Compounding this confusion is the term services, which has a different meaning than Web services.

In this book, Web services is defined as a means to connect services together. A service is software that performs some computing function and has some type of underlying computer system. Although not required, cloud computing may provide that underlying computer system.

The assembly of services—internal ...

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