Table of Contents

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Web Services Explained: Solutions and Applications for the Real World
By Joe Clabby
Publisher	: Prentice Hall PTR
Pub Date	: July 09, 2002
ISBN	: 0-13-047963-2
Pages	: 240
Slots	: 1			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 Idea/Strategic 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 Create/Overcome 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 Reach/Serve Existing Markets
				Repacking Affects Physical Product Packaging, Marketing/Promotion, 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 Reach/Serve 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 Build/Acquire 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