New Book on "Web Services"

Web Services
Gustavo Alonso, Fabio Casati, Harumi Kuno, Vijay Machiraju
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2003
ISBN# 3-540-44008-9
354 pages

Like many other incipient technologies, Web services are still surrounded 
by a tremendous level of noise. This noise results from the always dangerous 
combination of wishful thinking on the part of research and industry and of 
a lack of clear understanding of how Web services came to be. On the one 
hand, multiple contradictory interpretations are created by the many 
attempts to realign existing technology and strategies with Web services. 
On the other hand, the emphasis on what could be done with Web services in 
the future often makes us lose track of what can be really done with Web 
services today and in the short term. These factors make it extremely 
difficult to get a coherent picture of what Web services are, what they 
contribute, and where they will be applied. 

Alonso and his co-authors deliberately take a step back. Based on their 
academic and industrial experience with middleware and enterprise application 
integration systems, they describe the fundamental concepts behind the notion 
of Web services and present them as the natural evolution of conventional 
middleware, necessary to meet the challenges of the Web and of B2B 
application integration. Rather than providing a reference guide or a "how 
to write your first Web service" kind of book, they discuss the main 
objectives of Web services, the challenges that must be faced to achieve 
them, and the opportunities that this novel technology provides. Established, 
as well as recently proposed, standards and techniques (e.g., WSDL, UDDI, 
SOAP, WS-Coordination, WS-Transactions, and BPEL), are then examined in the 
context of this discussion in order to emphasize their scope, benefits, and 
shortcomings. Thus, the book is ideally suited both for professionals 
considering the development of application integration solutions and for 
research and students interesting in understanding and contributing to the 
evolution of enterprise application technologies. 

Written for: 
Graduates, professionals, lecturers, researchers 

Keywords: 
Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Application Integration, 
Service-Oriented Architecture, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, RosettaNet, BPEL,
Workflow Management, WSCI, B2B Integration
 

Read more detailed information 
(including table of contents and sample chapter): 
www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-146-22-2265535-0,00.html

ORDER INFORMATION:

Springer:  
www.springeronline.com

Amazon:
www.amazon.com
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