Web services allow new and improved ways for enterprise applications to communicate and integrate with each other over the Web and, as such, are having a profound effect on both the worlds of business and of software development.

The new edition of this bestselling book offers a comprehensive and up to date treatment of web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), giving you all you need to know to gain a solid foundation in this area. Building upon the clear, accessible approach of the first edition, it provides a complete introduction to the concepts, principles, technology and standards of web services. The book also provides an in depth examination of good design and development practises for SOA applications in organisations.

Comprehensive case study

A.1         Overview of case study

A.2         Background: Automotive supply chain

A.3         Case study objectives           

A.4         SOA work plan stages          

A.5         Solution

PART I        Basics

Chapter 1: Web Service and SOA Fundamentals

1.1          Introduction

1.2          The concept of software as service (SaaS)

1.3          Web services vs. Web-based applications

1.4          A more complete definition of Web services

1.5          Characteristics of Web services        

1.6          Service interface and implementation

1.7          The service-oriented architecture                   

1.8          The Web services technology stack   

1.9          Quality of service (QoS)       

1.10        Web services interoperability

1.11        Web services versus components

1.12        RESTful services

1.13        Impact and shortcomings of Web services

1.14        Summary

Review questions

Exercises

PART II    Enabling Infrastructure

Chapter 2: Distributed Computing Infrastructure

2.1          Distributed computing and Internet protocols 

2.2          Middleware

2.3          The client–server model

2.4          Inter-process communication

2.5          Synchronous forms of middleware     

2.6          Asynchronous forms of middleware   

2.7          Request/reply messaging

2.8          Message-oriented middleware          

2.9          Transaction-oriented middleware

2.10        Enterprise application and e-Business integration       

2.11        Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

Chapter 3: Brief Overview of XML

3.1          XML document structure      

3.2          XML namespaces

3.3          Defining structure in XML documents

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