Developing web services choreography standards - The case of REST vs. SOAP

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 9-29

  Zur Muehlen, Michael ^a   Nickerson, Jeffrey V ^a   Swenson, Keith D ^b  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Choreography; Integration; Interoperability; Process; REST; SOAP; Standards; Web services; Workflow

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; INTEROPERABILITY; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

CHOREOGRAPHY; REST; SOAP; WEB SERVICES; WORKFLOW;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 13844254445     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2004.04.008     Document Type: Article

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