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Web Services Gustavo Alonso

Web Services By Gustavo Alonso

Web Services by Gustavo Alonso


Summary

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.

Web Services Summary

Web Services: Concepts, Architectures and Applications by Gustavo Alonso

Like many other incipient technologies, Web services are still surrounded by a substantial 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.

Table of Contents

I Conventional Middleware.- 1 Distributed Information Systems.- 2 Middleware.- 3 Enterprise Application Integration.- 4 Web Technologies.- II Web Services.- 5 Web Services.- 6 Basic Web Services Technology.- 7 Service coordination protocols.- 8 Service Composition.- 9 Outlook.

Additional information

CIN3642078885G
9783642078880
3642078885
Web Services: Concepts, Architectures and Applications by Gustavo Alonso
Used - Good
Paperback
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
2010-12-01
354
N/A
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