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