Index

A

ABAP language, 186

Active Directory, 196

ad hoc custom integration, 62

adaptability, 26

adoption model for Web services, 17–21, 59–85, 113–117, 204–205, 208

asynchronous transactions and, 82

benefits of, 83–85

incremental, 154–155

obstacles to, 81–83

patterns of, 113–117

process orchestration and workflow in, 82–83

security and, 82

services management and, 82

Web services and, 111–122

aerospace and defense industries, 131

aggregation of content, 200

agility of organization, 90, 93–95, 171–174

AltoWeb, 195

Amberpoint, 51

AMR Research, Web services and, 115

application development, 106

application hosting, 198–199

application inventory for pilot project, 151–153

application management, 98–100

adding/ building new, 101

change management and, 107

context- vs. content-based solutions in, 102

development (see application development)

integration and, 101, 106–107

legacy system migration, 106

maintenance in, 101–102, 107

procurement, 105–106

upgrades, 100

application servers, 182

Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and, 179

.NET and, 177

vendors of, 190–193

application service providers (ASP), 12, 199

Applied Micro Devices (AMD), 124

architecting for competitive advantage, 159–180

binding Web services, 166

characteristics of SOA in, 168–171

coarse-grained services in, 168–169

collaboration in, 173

competitive advantage in, 171–174

cost of integration and, 164

dynamically discoverable services in, 168, 171

enterprise architecture in, pros and cons of, 161–164

evolution of computer systems and, 160

evolution of systems architectures and, 164

finding Web services, 166

flexibility and agility in, 171–174

future of enterprise architectures in 171–174

hierarchy of system implementation in, 167

interoperability in, 168–169

Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and, 159, 174–179

loosely coupled services in, 168–171

.NET and, 159, 174–179

outsourcing in, 173

platform implementation considerations in, 174–179

publishing Web services, 166

reuse principles in, 171–172

service provider in, 166

service registry in, 166

service requesters in, 166

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in, 159, 164–171

services vs. components in, 167

architectures for business, 16–17

Ariba, 44–45

Art Technology Group (ATG), 176, 178

assembling/binding Web services (see binding Web services)

asset management (IT assets), 99

Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD), 38, 135, 150

asynchronous transactions, 82

atomic transactions, in ACID principles, 50

Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable (ACID) principle, 50

authorization, 51

auto-invoke features, 14

automation of business processes, 90, 115, 117

automotive industry, 128–129

availability, 51

Available To Promise (ATP) information, 114

Avinon, 195

awareness of management, in preparing for Web services, 147–149