Perspectives on Web Services: Applying SOAP, WSDL and UDDI to Real-World Projects (Springer Professional Computing) (Hardcover)

by Olaf Zimmermann (Author), Mark R. Tomlinson (Author), Stefan Peuser (Author) "Our observation is that the actual business benefits facilitated by Web services solutions mainly depend on the business scenario at hand, as opposed to the..." (more)
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"Web Services have emerged as a powerful tool for building complex but adaptive and agile enterprise systems in heterogeneous environments, enabling effective inter- and intra-enterprise integration. Perspective on Web Services: Applying SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI to Real-World Projects by Olaf Zimmermann, Mark R. Tomlinson, and Stefan Peuser contains erverything you need to know about developing and deploying Web services-oriented enterprise applications. Whatever your role in a Web Services application project - for example, software architect, developer, project manager, or systems administrator - you will find useful information in this book. (...) The authors combine their practical experience in Web service-oriented enterprise applications with reviews and a hands-on examination of the latest Web service specifications and technologies and IBM product capabilities."

Dragan Stojanovic on dsonline.computer.org

Product Description
This book is designed as a full and rich source book for architects, developers and project managers of Web services projects. The book is written by experienced practitioners. The text is accompanied by a realistic case study which leads the reader through a complete project lifecycle. J2EE and the IBM WebSphere product family serve as the sample implementation platform for the introduced concepts.

Key Topics: • Seven - sometimes controversial - perspectives on Web services, covering the entire project lifecycle from opportunity identification to design, development and deployment • Business drivers and scenarios for Web services solutions • Understanding the Web services building blocks XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI • Service-oriented architectures and related non-functional requirements, architectural decisions and patterns • J2EE sample implementation platform: IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer and IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 5 • Apache SOAP 2.3 and JAX-RPC programming through JSR 109 and Apache Axis; interoperability between Microsoft .NET C# and Apache SOAP • Runtime topologies for Web services solutions, Web services deployment and security • Best practices for the design and management of Web services projects • Trends such as Grid computing and the semantic Web.

Features: • Project-centric approach including lessons learned and pitfalls to avoid • Checklists to decide whether Web services are an appropriate solution to a given business problem • Guide to W3C recommendations and other Web services specifications • Hands-on instructions and full source code for a complete reference implementation • Many rich illustrations, website support and extensive pointers to other Web resources.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 648 pages
• Publisher: Springer (September 26, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540009140
• ISBN-13: 978-3540009146
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #514,336 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for successful webservice projects, November 7, 2003

By	Andreas Sahlbach "thecoolace" (Braunschweig, Germany) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My primary reason for buying this book was the eye-catcher word "Real-World Projects" in the subtitle. I'm a professional developer/architect of enterprise size IT-projects and the fastest way for me to learn new things is by using examples. So in fact the "Development Perspective" chapter was the first chapter I've read and found it very useful if you are going to use WebSphere 5 in your project.
I was pleased to see that the next chapter "Operational Perspective" actually deals with questions regarding deployment and configuration. This is something most books are missing and many projects underestimate the importance of these aspects for a successful rollout.
Finally after reading two very useful chapters (written in an enjoyable style), I've decided to give the other chapters also a try and I wasn't disappointed. This book covers all important aspects for a successful webservice project and I strongly recomment it if you are going to start such a project.
During my time as a technical lead at Hewlett-Packard, I've got the opportunity to participate a pretty expensive software architect workshop. I was pleased to see lots of "Does and Dont's" I've learned in this workshop in the "Architecture Perspective" chapter of this book.
I finally ended up in reading all chapters of the book. I haven't read all pages of this book because of my previous knowledge and because of the excellent offered shortcuts within this book. But the time I've spent reading the rest was a rewarding investment. Whatever role you are going to play in a webservice project: you will find something useful within this book.
And finally don't forget: even Grady Booch thinks this book is a must-have. He wrote a nice forword for the book.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IBM SOA Explained, March 19, 2006

By	Don Whiteside "Solution Architect" (Auckland, n/a New Zealand) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book excells in explaining the IBM Toolsets and their applicability in the Web Services and SOA area. Unfortunately they are for version 5 and a version 6.x addendum would be great.
Having said that working the examples into version 6 format is good practice and not too much sweat.
This book provides all the coverage you need if you are dealing with the IBM WebSphere kit (all the IBM Redbooks are also a great help!)

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you had time or money for just one book on web services..., November 9, 2005

By	Uday S. Kari (Maui, Hawaii, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you had to time or money for just one book on Web Services, this would be it. The book truly delivers on different perspectives namely, business, training, architecture, development, operational and "future". You start by learning enough to convince your boss (or clients, in my case) of the benefits of using your approach and then proceed to master the whole XML based implementations as well. Dense read, though: there is enough material in each chapter to cover an entire book. If you are a java programmer, it makes it even better, most probably because the book came out in 2003 when Microsoft .NET was still pretty clueless about all this web services stuff anyway. Even the J2EE world is way ahead of the book in terms of implementation. Still an excellent read, so my only request would be...a second, updated edition!