With the rapid growth of B2B and e-Commerce activities, the "Service Web" has emerged as a promising framework to address the issues related to process integration. In this paper, we present a stack of interrelated protocols, such as SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, to support service integration using the Web as the medium. Specifically, we aim for a framework that allows for the identification of reusable
... [Show full abstract] business logic in large legacy systems in the form of major legacy components, the identification of interfaces between the legacy components and the rest of the legacy system, the automatic generation of CORBA wrappers to enable for remote access, and finally, the seamless interoperation with Web services via HTTP based on the SOAP messaging mechanism.