by Alan Brown, Simon Johnston and Kevin Kelly, Rational Software, IBM Corporation © Copyright IBM Corp. 1987, 2004. All Rights Reserved.

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Abstract

This paper provides the context for a deeper understanding of services and service-oriented architectures for enterprise-scale software solutions. In particular, it explores services in relationship to the more established concept of software components, and it describes how current component-based development practices provide a tried and tested foundation for the implementation of a service-oriented architecture.

Rational Unified Process   2003.06.15