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A Business-Oriented Foundation for Service Orientation

Overview Service-orientation, with the advent of Web services, is the latest technology solution put forward to automate business activities. According to the current definitions of service-orientation, services offer network accessible functionality through standard, published, and discoverable interfaces. These core characteristics promise at least protocol (syntactic) interoperability regardless of platform, provider, and location. These days, however, solving technical integration problems is not enough by itself to justify investing in service-orientation. To strengthen the argument, various claims are being made about service-orientation support for business agility because, the argument goes, in a service-oriented environment solutions are easier to build by composing services, re-configuring them, re-using them, and so forth.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	HTML
Date Published	February 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture

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