On the business value and technical challenges of adopting Web services

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 31-50

  Tilley, Scott ^a   Gerdes, John ^b   Hamilton, Terrance ^c   Huang, Shihong ^c   Müller, Hausi ^d   Smith, Dennis ^e   Wong, Kenny ^f  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California Riverside   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adoption; Business value; Migration; SOAP; Technology transfer; Web services; XML

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COSTS; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MARKETING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; XML;

ADOPTION; BUSINESS VALUES; MIGRATION; SIMPLE OBJECT ACCESS PROTOCOL (SOAP); WEB SERVICES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 1442339120     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.283     Document Type: Review

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