Putting the "Web" into Web services. Web services interaction models.2

For pt.1 see ibid., vol.6, no.3, p. 89-91 (2002). As I discussed in my previous column, each different style of middleware promotes one or more interaction models that determine how applications based on that middleware communicate and work with each other. It is difficult to say what the best interaction models would be for Web services, mainly because the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is still developing the architecture. The author considers the use of remote procedure calls, Web services and messaging and interface complexity.