Overview
- Presents complete technical vision and technology
- Presents architecture and technology of main products
- Explains technical necessity for web services
- Written by leading experts from Industry and Academia
- Authors are involved in Web Services Interoperability Organization (MS, IBM, HP, Oracle, SAP)
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Data-Centric Systems and Applications (DCSA)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conventional Middleware
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Front Matter
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Web Services
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Back Matter
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About this book
Like many other incipient technologies, Web services are still surrounded by a tremendous level of noise. This noise results from the always dangerous combination of wishful thinking on the part of research and industry and of a lack of clear understanding of how Web services came to be. On the one hand, multiple contradictory interpretations are created by the many attempts to realign existing technology and strategies with Web services. On the other hand, the emphasis on what could be done with Web services in the future often makes us lose track of what can be really done with Web services today and in the short term. These factors make it extremely difficult to get a coherent picture of what Web services are, what they contribute, and where they will be applied.
Alonso and his co-authors deliberately take a step back. Based on their academic and industrial experience with middleware and enterprise application integration systems, they describe the fundamental concepts behind the notion of Web services and present them as the natural evolution of conventional middleware, necessary to meet the challenges of the Web and of B2B application integration.
Rather than providing a reference guide or a "how to write your first Web service" kind of book, they discuss the main objectives of Web services, the challenges that must be faced to achieve them, and the opportunities that this novel technology provides. Established, as well as recently proposed, standards and techniques (e.g., WSDL, UDDI, SOAP, WS-Coordination, WS-Transactions, and BPEL), are then examined in the context of this discussion in order to emphasize their scope, benefits, and shortcomings. Thus, the book is ideally suited both for professionals considering the development of application integration solutions and for research and students interesting in understanding and contributing to the evolution of enterprise application technologies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Web Services
Book Subtitle: Concepts, Architectures and Applications
Authors: Gustavo Alonso, Fabio Casati, Harumi Kuno, Vijay Machiraju
Series Title: Data-Centric Systems and Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10876-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-44008-6Published: 04 September 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07888-0Published: 04 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-10876-5Published: 14 March 2013
Series ISSN: 2197-9723
Series E-ISSN: 2197-974X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 354
Topics: Popular Computer Science, Data Structures and Information Theory, The Computer Industry, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Database Management, e-Commerce/e-business