Web Services Platform Architecture [Electronic resources] : SOAP, WSDL, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-BPEL, WS-Reliable Messaging, and More

Chapter 1. Service-Oriented Architectures

This chapter introduces the concept of Services and the associated architectural paradigm, Service-Oriented Architecture Chapter 3, "Web Services," presents an overview of a Web services platform that provides the foundation to accomplish an SOA stack. Chapter 2, "Background," offers some required background so that you can understand the rest of this book.