Perspectives on Web Services

"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 servic