Perspectives on Web Services: "Applying Soap, Wsdl And Uddi To Real-World Projects" - Softcover

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"The ongoing Web services trend is ubiquitously featured already many publications on Web services exist. The first wave of enterprise-scale applications and projects exploiting the benefits of the technology is on its way.

However, there is still a lack of experience in the field technical decision makers are struggling about when to apply which elements of the technology, and how to do so. This is a variation of the well-known "chicken and egg" problem: no project without an architectural decision, no architectural decision without experience, no experience without a project. This book provides technical guidance and helps the reader to cut the Gordian knot."

Key Topics

- Seven sometimes controversial Perspectives on Web services, covering the entire project lifecycle from opportunity identification to design, development, and deployment

- Introduction to Web services architectures as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and their Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) instantiations

- Understanding the Web services building blocks SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI

- Business scenarios and functional/non-functional requirements for Web services solutions

- Patterns for Web services projects and related architectural decisions

- Sample implementation platform: IBM WebSphere Studio integrated development environment and IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 5

- Full-scope implementation of an end-to-end case study, including hands-on instructions for development and deployment

- Apache SOAP 2.3 as well as JAX-RPC programming through JSR 109 and Apache Axis

- Interoperability between Microsoft .NET C# and Apache SOAP

- Runtime topologies for Web services solutions, deployment to WebSphere, transport layer and Web services security

- Best practices for design and management of Web services projects

- Trends such as Grid computing and the semantic Web

Features:

- Project-centric approach including lessons learnt and pitfalls to avoid

- Many sample project deliverables, including checklists to decide whether Web services are an appropriate solution to a given business problem

- Guide to W3C recommendations and other Web services specifications

- Full source code for a complete reference implementation

- Many rich illustrations, website support, and extensive pointers to other Web resources

This book will provide everything that a project team needs to know about design, development and deployment of Web services with the IBM WebSphere product family. Taking a realistic and pragmatic view on the subject, this book will be an essential part of every Java Web service developer s bookshelf.

Meet fictitious members of the target audience as they find their way through a first-of-a-kind Web services project, and hear their opinions on the topic at hand. Benefit from the real-world experience the authors gained during numerous client projects and workshops.