Understanding SOA with Web Services

Author: Xu Han
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: In-depth understanding of SOA and Web services, a practical guide to comprehensively introducing SOA: Simplify infrastructure, maximize flexibility
This is an authoritative guide on using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services technology to simplify IT infrastructure and enhance business agility. Renowned experts Eric Newcomer and Greg Lomow present comprehensive practical strategies and proven best practices for SOA planning and implementation. As a follow-up to the highly acclaimed book Understanding Web Services, Newcomer and Lomow discuss how to leverage the latest Web service standards to achieve metadata management, security, reliable messaging, transactions, and orchestration. Additionally, they provide clear methods and solutions for addressing broad enterprise-level integration and development challenges.
The book covers the following topics:
· Why SOA is the most advantageous approach to enterprise integration?
· How Web services provide an ideal foundation for SOA?
· Common concepts in all SOAs: SOA governance, service contracts, Web service platforms, service-oriented development, and more.
· Implementing service-level communication, discovery mechanisms, security, data processing, transaction management, and system management.
· Achieving application interoperability, multi-channel customer access, and business process management using SOA.
· Practical tutorials on specifications such as WS-Security, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-AtomicTransactions, WS-CompositeApplicationFramework, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, and WS-BPEL.
Whether you are an architect, developer, or IT manager, this book can help you correctly understand SOA while achieving your SOA business and technical goals.
"Finally, a third-generation Web services book. In this book, Newcomer and Lomow share many practical SOA solutions based on their years of experience in developing and implementing Web service standards. Their insights are worth listening to." — Doug Kaye, author of Loosely Coupled: The Missing Pieces of Web Services
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This is an authoritative guide on using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services technology to simplify IT infrastructure and enhance business agility. The book covers topics such as why SOA is the most advantageous approach to enterprise integration, how Web services provide an ideal foundation for SOA, SOA governance, service contracts, Web service platforms, service-oriented development, implementing service-level communication, discovery mechanisms, security, data processing, transaction management, and system management, achieving application interoperability, multi-channel customer access, and business process management using SOA, and practical tutorials on specifications such as WS-Security, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-AtomicTransactions, WS-CompositeApplicationFramework, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, and WS-BPEL.