Web Services Explained. Solutions and Applications for the Real World 

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• 1. Web Services Explained: Solutions and Applications for the Real World

• 2. Table of Contents

• 3. Copyright

  Copyright

• 4. Preface

  Preface

• 5. Approach

  Approach

• 6. Focus

  Focus

• 7. Getting the Most Out of This Book

  Getting the Most Out of This Book

• 8. The Importance of Perseverance

  The Importance of Perseverance

• 9. Executive Summary

• 10. What Is This Change?

  What Is This Change?

• 11. What Do Web Services Enable Your Organization to Do?

  What Do Web Services Enable Your Organization to Do?

• 12. What Are Web Services?

  What Are Web Services? Sidebar 0-1 Quick Definitions

• 13. But There s More to Web Services Than Just UDDI, WSDL, and SOAP

  But There s More to Web Services Than Just UDDI WSDL and SOAP

• 14. What s So Special about Web Services?

  What s So Special about Web Services?

• 15. I ve Heard This All Before-Are Web Services for Real?

  I ve Heard This All BeforeAre Web Services for Real?

• 16. Issues, Shortcomings, Gotchas...

  Issues Shortcomings Gotchas

• 17. When Will My Organization Need to Be Ready to Deploy Web Services?

  When Will My Organization Need to Be Ready to Deploy Web Services?

• 18. Vendor Selection Criteria

  Vendor Selection Criteria

• 19. Three Approaches

  Three Approaches

• 20. Chapter Summary

  Chapter Summary

• 21. Part I: A Business Executive Primer on Web Services

• 22. Chapter 1. What Are Web Services

• 23. In This Chapter

  In This Chapter

• 24. Key Insights

  Key Insights

• 25. Another Way of Defining What Web Services Do: Consider Publish, Find, and Bind

  Another Way of Defining What Web Services Do: Consider Publish Find and Bind

• 26. The Author s Personal Definition of Web Services

  The Author s Personal Definition of Web Services

• 27. A Basic Web Services Architecture

  A Basic Web Services Architecture

• 28. A Complete Web Services Architecture

  A Complete Web Services Architecture Sidebar 1-1 An Example: IBM s WebSphere Platform

• 29. Chapter Summary

  Chapter Summary

• 30. Chapter 2. What Are Program-to-Program Communications?

• 31. In This Chapter

  In This Chapter

• 32. Key Insights

  Key Insights

• 33. What Are Program-to-Program Communications?

  What Are Program-to-Program Communications?

• 34. Previous Program-to-Program Communications Architectures Have Met with Limited Success

  Previous Program-to-Program Communications Architectures Have Met with Limited Success

• 35. Why Program-to-Program Communications Using Web Services Will Become the Industry Standard

  Sidebar 2-1 The Web Services Interoperability Organization Why Program-to-Program Communications Using Web Services Will Become the Industry Standard

• 36. Chapter Summary

  Chapter Summary

• 37. Chapter 3. How Do Specific Web Services Technologies Work?

• 38. In This Chapter

  In This Chapter

• 39. Key Insights

  Key Insights

• 40. Specific Web Services Technologies

  Sidebar 3-1 Bill Smith s Commentary on Figure 3-1 Specific Web Services Technologies

• 41. The Roles of UDDI, WSDL, and SOAP

  The Roles of UDDI WSDL and SOAP

• 42. Building a Web Services Architecture Using Some or None of the Formal Standards

  Building a Web Services Architecture Using Some or None of the Formal Standards

• 43. An Example: Using an Alternative Approach to UDDI for Finding Cooperative Applications

  An Example: Using an Alternative Approach to UDDI for Finding Cooperative Applications Sidebar 3-2 How This Application May Some Day Work

• 44. Chapter Summary

  Chapter Summary

• 45. Chapter 4. Gotchas

• 46. In This Chapter

  In This Chapter

• 47. Key Insights

  Key Insights

• 48. Weak Points in Web Services Architecture

  Weak Points in Web Services Architecture

• 49. Chapter Summary

  Chapter Summary

• 50. Part II: An IdeaStrategic Planning Guide for Business Executives

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