Service-Oriented Computing - Principles and Applications

Author: Yu Jian, Han Yanbo
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) represents a new development direction in distributed computing and software development. This book comprehensively and systematically introduces SOC from aspects such as its development history, core concepts, fundamental principles, core technologies, Web service application programming and examples, and current research status. The book consists of 13 chapters, divided into six parts. Part 1 (Chapter 1) introduces the demand background, historical evolution, and future development direction of SOC; Part 2 (Chapters 2 and 3) introduces the core concepts, ideas, and principles of SOC, with a focus on analyzing services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Web services; Part 3 (Chapters 4–9) introduces SOA-enabling technologies, including service communication, service description, service publishing and discovery, as well as high-level service composition and collaboration. It also covers service transactions and service security in terms of ensuring application quality; Part 4 (Chapter 10) introduces analysis, design techniques, and methodologies related to constructing service-oriented applications; Part 5 (Chapters 11 and 12) introduces advanced supporting platforms for SOA, including semantic web and service network technologies; Part 6 (Chapter 13) introduces recent research achievements in service networks and personalized end-user programming by the Sino-German Software Integration Technology Joint Laboratory of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, supported by projects such as the "Five-Year Plan" science and technology, the "863 Program," and the National Natural Science Foundation. This book is suitable for computer software R&D personnel, university computer and related professional teachers and graduate students.