SOA for the Business Developer: Concepts, BPEL, and SCA (Business Developers series) - page 1
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- Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Back Cover
- SOA for the Business Developer-Concepts, BPEL, and SCA, First Edition
- Preface
- Clarity and Imagination
- A Note to the General Reader
- Technologies
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Open Standards
- Structure of a Service-Oriented Application
- Web and Binary-Exchange Services
- Business Implications
- Presentation Services
- SOA Runtime Products
- Chapter 2: Services
- Loose Coupling
- Service Registry
- Service Level Agreements
- Message Exchange Patterns
- Quality of Service
- Endpoints, State, and Correlation
- Chapter 3: Highlight Insurance
- Introducing the Company
- Analyzing a Business Process
- Describing the Sales Process at Highlight
- Identifying Problems with the Current Process
- Communicating the Assumptions in Writing
- Isolating Services
- Creating the Quote Application
- Creating the Policy Application
- Chapter 4: XML
- Introduction to XML
- XML As Used in SOA
- Structure of an XML Document
- Namespaces
- XML Schema
- Data-type Reuse
- Instance Document
- Chapter 5: Established SOA Standards
- WSDL
- SOAP
- SOAP Body
- UDDI
- Chapter 6: Introduction to XPath
- Nodes
- Avoiding Errors
- Context
- Examples
- Parts of a Location Step
- comment()
- text()
- node()
- processing-instruction()
- Predicates
- Abbreviations
- Other Aspects of XPath 1.0
- Returns a Boolean
- Returns a String
- Returns a Number
- Chapter 7: Introduction to BPEL
- Use of WSDL
- BPEL File Structure
- Activities in Brief
- Scopes
- Message Exchanges
- Variables
- Variables and XPath
- Partner Links
- Correlation Sets
- Fault Handling
- Compensation Handling
- Termination Handling
- Introduction to Concurrency
- Advanced Concurrency
- Chapter 8: BPEL Activity Highlights
- Start Activities
- assign Activity
- fromParts and toParts
- invoke Activity
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