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Web Services Explained, Solutions and Applications for the Real World

ISBN: 0130479632
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2002
Pages: 115

Authors: Joe Clabby

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• Web Services Explained: Solutions and Applications for the Real World
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Preface
• Approach
• Focus
• Getting the Most Out of This Book
• The Importance of Perseverance
• Executive Summary
• What Is This Change?
• What Do Web Services Enable Your Organization to Do?
• What Are Web Services?
• But There s More to Web Services Than Just UDDI, WSDL, and SOAP
• What s So Special about Web Services?
• I ve Heard This All Before-Are Web Services for Real?
• Issues, Shortcomings, Gotchas...
• When Will My Organization Need to Be Ready to Deploy Web Services?
• Vendor Selection Criteria
• Three Approaches
• Chapter Summary
• Part I: A Business Executive Primer on Web Services
• Chapter 1. What Are Web Services
• In This Chapter
• Key Insights
• Another Way of Defining What Web Services Do: Consider Publish, Find, and Bind
• The Author s Personal Definition of Web Services
• A Basic Web Services Architecture
• A Complete Web Services Architecture
• Chapter Summary
• Chapter 2. What Are Program-to-Program Communications?
• In This Chapter
• Key Insights
• What Are Program-to-Program Communications?
• Previous Program-to-Program Communications Architectures Have Met with Limited Success
• Why Program-to-Program Communications Using Web Services Will Become the Industry Standard
• Chapter Summary
• Chapter 3. How Do Specific Web Services Technologies Work?
• In This Chapter
• Key Insights
• Specific Web Services Technologies
• The Roles of UDDI, WSDL, and SOAP
• Building a Web Services Architecture Using Some or None of the Formal Standards
• An Example: Using an Alternative Approach to UDDI for Finding Cooperative Applications
• Chapter Summary
• Chapter 4. Gotchas
• In This Chapter
• Key Insights
• Weak Points in Web Services Architecture
• Chapter Summary
• Part II: An IdeaStrategic Planning Guide for Business Executives
• Chapter 5. What Do Web Services Enable My Organization to Do?
• In This Chapter
• Key Insights
• Web Services in Action: Generic Examples
• How Web Services Can Help a Business Open New Markets
• How Web Services Can Be Used to Dynamically Increase a Company s Application Portfolio
• How Web Services Can Be Used to Reduce Development Time and Costs
• How Web Services Can Help Create New Organizational Efficiencies
• How Web Services Can Help an Enterprise CreateOvercome Competitive Pressure
• How Web Services Can Help Create a New Revenue Stream from Existing Intellectual Property
• How Web Services Can Help ISVs Repackage Their Software Offerings to Better ReachServe Existing Markets
• Repacking Affects Physical Product Packaging, MarketingPromotion, Business Partnership Strategies, and Sales-Channel Approaches
• How Web Services Can Help Solve Legacy Systems Incompatibility Problems
• Another Example of How Web Services Can Help Resolve Interoperability Issues
• How Web Services Improve Individual Productivity
• Chapter Summary
• Chapter 6. Who Is Using Web Services?
• In This Chapter
• Key Insights
• How Web Services Can Help a Business Open New Markets
• How Web Services Can Be Used to Reduce Development Time and Costs
• Another Use of Web Services to Reduce Development Time and Costs
• How Web Services Can Be Used to Help Create New Organizational Efficiencies
• Storebrand s Web Services Plans Beyond Creating Organizational Efficiency
• How Web Services Can Help Create a New Revenue Stream from Existing Intellectual Property
• How Web Services Can Help ISVs Repackage Their Software Offerings to Better ReachServe Existing Markets
• How Web Services Can Help Solve Legacy Systems Incompatibility Problems
• How Web Services Improve Individual Productivity
• Chapter Summary
• Chapter 7. When Should My Organization Adopt Web Services?
• In This Chapter
• Key Insights
• The Types of Questions You Need to Ask Yourself
• Where Is Most of the Activity Taking Place Today?
• Pay Close Attention to UDDI
• Chapter Summary
• Part III: A Business Executive Buyer s Guide
• Chapter 8. What Vendor Selection Criteria Should Be Used?
• In This Chapter
• Key Insights
• How Do You BuildAcquire Web Services Applications? Three Approaches
• A Closer Look at the Application Server Marketplace
• First-Pass Look at the Market Positioning of Some of the Application Server Competitors
• Chapter Summary
• Chapter 9. Should We Adopt .NET or J2EE?
• In This Chapter
• Key Insight
• Market Dynamics
• Two Camps: Microsoft .NET and Java
• Opinion
• Differences Between J2EE and .NET
• Chapter Summary
• Chapter 10. Vendor Comparison-Contrasting Various Product and Service Offerings
• In This Chapter
• Key Insights
• Category 1: Application Server Providers
• Category 2: Building Your Own la Carte, Point Product Web Services Applications
• Category 3: Web Services Professional Service Providers
• Chapter Summary
• Chapter 11. A Review of Where This Book Has Taken Us
• A Review of Each Major Part of the Book
• Summary Observations and Conclusions
• Best Advice
• Parting Comments