Understanding SOA with Web Services (Independent Technology Guides)
Eric Newcomer, Greg Lomow · Addison-Wesley Professional eBooks · 2004
Praise for Understanding SOA with Web ServicesThis book does the best job of describing not only we in the timeline of enterprise integration efforts, but also providing strategic guidance for where we need be. The authors have worked diligently break down the integration problem into functional areas, and send you down the path of strategic integration utilizing XML Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture the vehicle of choice. You will love this book!-Daniel Edgar, Architect, Portland General ElectricE-Government needs a comprehensive guide SOA with Web Services standards and best practices for implementation get from the current as the future to architecture. This book meets that need superbly.-Brand Niemann, Ph.D., Co-Chair, Semantic (Web Services) Interoperability Community of Practice, U.S. Federal CIO Council.There are many books on SOA available today, but Understanding SOA with Web Services stands out from the pack because of its thorough, outstanding coverage of transactions, reliability, and process. Where most SOA books focus on integration and architecture basics, Lomow and Newcomer fearlessly dive into these more advanced, yet critical, topics, and provide a depth of treatment unavailable anywhere else.-Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst, ZapThink LLCThis book provides a wealth of content on Web Services and SOA not found elsewhere. Although the book is technical in nature, it is surprisingly easy read and digest. Managers who would like keep up with the most effective technical strategies will find this book required reading.-Hari Mailvaganam, University of British Columbia, VancouverI have been teaching companies and lecturing on SOA and XML Web Services for years and sort of felt at home with these technologies. I didn't think anyone else could teach me anything more significant about either of them. This book surprised me. If a person teaching SOA and Web Services can learn something from this book, you can too. This book is a must-read for all architects, senior developers, and concerned CTOs.-Sayed Y. Hashimi, SOA ConsultantNewcomer and Lomow are no doubt the industry luminaries on the topics of Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture, and integration. This book is sure be a must-have for developers and architects looking take advantage of the coming wave of standards-based, loosely coupled integration.-Ronald Schmelzer, Senior Analyst, ZapThink, LLC Author of XML and Web Services Unleashed (Sams, 2002)The author makes it quite clear: SOA is an organizational principle and Web Service technology is a means realize enterprise solutions according this. SOA is the federative concept of nature and efficient societies. The book is an excellent starting-point discover the new world of an IT-infrastructure adjusted efficient business strategies and processes in a global value-add network.-Johann Wagner, Senior Architect, Siemens Business Services Author of Foderative UnternehmensprozesseFinally, here's a third-generation Web services book that delivers pragmatic solutions using SOAs. Newcomer and Lomow draw from their years of real-world experience ranging from developing Web services standards hands-on applications. Listen them.-DOUG KAYE, author of Loosely Coupled: The Missing Pieces of Web Services Host and producer, IT Conversations (www.itconversations.com)The definitive guide using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services technologies simplify IT infrastructure and improve business agility. Renowned experts Eric Newcomer and Greg Lomow offer practical strategies and proven best practices for every facet of SOA planning and implementation. Newcomer and Lomow pick up where Newcomer's widely read Understanding Web Services left off, showing how fully leverage today's latest Web services standards for metadata management, security, reliable messaging, transactions, and orchestration.Along the way, they present specific approaches and solutions for a wide range of enterprise integration and development challenges, including the largest and most complex.Coverage includes Why SOA has emerged the dominant approach enterprise integration How and why Web services provide the ideal foundation for SOA Underlying concepts shared by all SOAs: governance, service contracts, Web services platforms, service-oriented development, and more Implementing service-level communications, discovery, security, data handling, transaction management, and system management Using SOA deliver application interoperability, multichannel client access, and business process management Practical tutorials on WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-AtomicTransactions, WS-Composite Application Framework, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, and WS-BPELWhether you're an architect, developer, or IT manager, Understanding SOA with Web Services will help you get SOA right-and achieve both the business and technical goals you've set for it.© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.