Developing Enterprise Web Services: An Architect's Guide

By Sandeep Chatterjee

This book describes the key issues and technologies driving Web Services. It provides thorough coverage of concepts, issues, common problems and their solutions, technologies, and best practices necessary to build production-quality Web Services-based applications. Part 1 outlines the big picture for distributed computing environments. It reviews Web Services standards--such as SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, highlighting key ideas that recur throughout the book. Building on the fundamentals, Part 2 introduces advanced technologies, including some emerging standards in important areas such as transactioning, security, mobile, and pervasive computing, and wireless environments. Drawing on experiences in developing real world Web Services-based applications, the authors present a set of best practices for application architectures based on this new distributed computing paradigm. Key technologies and recommendations are brought together by building an enterprise-scale Web Services-based application.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131401602
• ISBN13: 9780131401600
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 567 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

More stuff less chaff !!

Consider this - Web Services and SOAP is perhaps the only recallable evolution of technology that has witnessed the single largest involvement of standards bodies and industry bellwethers. The result? A puzzling plethora of proffered protocols that continues to confuse both sideliners and early adopters every day. While managers are finding it increasingly difficult to understand the direction, developers are craving for clarity, consistency and a unified approach for WS adoption. "Give me the tools" they cry every day, while they keep adding to their "To Read" list a handful of new acronyms every week. The big question is, when can we build Rome, if at all? With a gentle and brief (thank god!) introduction to underlying concepts such as SOAP, XML and UDDI, authors start talking about broader concerns - conversation, transaction, security, workflow, QoS and everything in between. While accentuating nuances of evolving standards and guessing the future trends, authors offer strategies, patterns, and tips on pitfalls to avoid. They skirt around the political interoperability issues around J2EE and .NET and focus purely on the standards. Architect's Note included at the end of every chapter makes title justified. An implementation of WS-based ordering system presented as a case study concludes the book by bringing it all together through excellent step-by-step approach. Although almost a year old, this book can be a survival guide for people in the trenches and the ROI-Savvy managers as well. It helps you tell the wheat from the chaff. Ajith Kallambella (...)

Best coverage on the topic

Over the past year, I have read quite a few books on Web Services, some good, others not so good... but this book really stands out. The concepts were covered in sufficient details and in a very informal manner. It gives you a very good idea what you would need to consider when deciding to implement a SOA solution in your organization.Highly Recommended!

Professor

This is a MUST-HAVE book for anyone who is interested in web services. Web service is arguably the next-big-thing in web technology. Yet there is often confusion between web services that expose functionalities in an open standard and web interfaces that expose presentations in an open standard. Not only this book clarifies the confusion, it goes much further to provide much insightful information from different perspectives; e.g., design patterns in software engineering, application development for wireless devices and enterprise web services deployment. I just wish this book could have been available earlier in the market! My overall rating for this book is EXCELLENT!

Chief Scientist

This is a surpringly well written, well organized book. Just about all of the major web service technologies are covered in just enough detail to give the reader a good understand of how they work and why they are needed. In addition, there are lots of simple, yet complete code samples that prepare the reader for detailed specifications and API documentation.The book also includes background coverage of fundamental XML concepts, such as XML schema. It is worthwhile as a reference alone.This book is much more than SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI (although these are covered in detail). This book includes advanced topics such as Web Services Conversation Language (WSCL), workflow, and transactions. The examples are easy to understand and complete.Overall, this is a professionally written book for professionals.

Solid book. A single book that covers all the bases.

I just got this book. This book is different from other Web Service books that go on and on about one or two topics. Instead, this book looks at developing enterprise applications using Web Services and addresses all of the issues that enterprise architects and developers face. The writing is informal and easy to understand. Some of the chapters are a little longer than is needed. But, definately a solid resource. A "one stop shop" for Web Services and enterprise software. Cheers.