Chapter 16

Terminology

This chapter serves as a quick reference to terminology related to Web services, service-oriented architecture (SOA), or cloud computing. For those entries that have related examples or more information in this book, there is a page reference to where you can find the additional information.

Since this is a dynamic area, new and revised technologies and concepts will be occurring regularly. If you cannot find what you need here, go to http://www.service-architecture.com/.

Adapters

Adapters allow Web services connections with internally developed systems or packaged software, usually with an enterprise service bus (ESB). There can also be adapters between Web services and CORBA or DCOM. See page 63.

Agents

Agents are active ...

Get Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures, and Cloud Computing, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.