Web services are distributed computing application components implementing the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). They are used for Business-to-Business (B2B) integration, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), e-business process integration and management services. Reusable Web services technologies are implemented in middleware, so powerful middleware for web services is therefore a prerequisite for advanced e-business process integration and management. This special issue contains revised best papers from the 2005 Middleware for Web Services workshop (MWS 2005) held at the EDOC 2005 conference, as well as selected papers from the open call for papers. This issue also contains two regular papers, outside the special issue topic.
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