Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 336 pages
- Published by: Prentice Hall PTR October 18, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0130097195
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0130097194
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Book Dimensions:
9.4 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Back Cover Copy
Architectures, platforms, roles, business models, and deployment realities.
"Alex's book offers a framework for assessing how a business can define areas where Web services can add real value in the near term. As a manager, I found the book highly readable and relevant in business terms, as well as technical."
-Randy Pilkenton, Managing Principal, Headstrong
"At long last an honest well rounded perspective on the appropriate usage of Web services."
-Carl Sturmer, Senior Architect, Ebates Shopping
"I believe that this book will help define the essential terms and services that will be the building blocks and stucco of future web-based applications."
-Joe Sisto, Vice President, North Highland Company
The complete Web Services briefing for every strategist, architect, CIO, and CTO.
Web Services offer immense potential for reducing integration costs and accelerating the delivery of new products and services. But Web Services technologies are evolving at breakneck speed, making it extremely difficult to define strategies and make choices. In IT Web Services, Alex Nghiem offers a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute roadmap for every IT decision-maker. This book's unique 360 degree view of the marketplace will help you objectively assess architectures, platforms, and business models alike-and its early-adopter interviews offer powerful insights into the realities of deployment.
You'll learn how to:
- Objectively assess the promised benefits of Web Services in your organization
- Identify the optimal short- and long-term roles for Web Services
- Understand the Web Services stack: XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI
- Understand the role of ebXML, WSFL, and the interoperability groups
- Choose the right enterprise Web Services architectures and models
- Compare Microsoft .NET and leading J2EE technology implementations
- Maximize security and scalability: emerging mechanisms and best practices
- Utilize value-added Web Services networks for provisioning, messaging, reporting, and resolving non-repudiation
- Define your high-level Web Services implementation plan
Leading experts and analysts agree, "Alex avoids unnecessary complexity and delivers clarity to the over-hyped Web Services topic. IT Web Services is a necessary handbook for all parties interested in Web Services."
About the CD-ROMCD-ROM contains a 1-year licensed developer version of Iona's Orbix E2A Web Services Integration Platform: XMLBus Edition, a high-performance, pure Web Services platform for integrating heterogeneous applications built with .NET, J2EE, J2ME, and CORBA.
About The Author
ALEX NGHIEM is President of Blue Samba Solutions, LLC, an Atlanta, GA-based firm specializing in lowering IT integration costs through the use of Web Services technologies. He previously founded a middleware and application server development firm, Global Objects, and sold it to a leading CRM solutions firm. As founder of Global Objects, Inc., Nghiem was a leader in the rapid delivery of e-business solutions to
Fortune 500 clients such as BellSouth and Bank of America.
Reader ReviewsIf you are looking for a book that is more than just an explanation of acronyms, then this is the book for you. It not only explains the acronyms, but also gives you the background to understand how we got where we are with web services today. The author then goes on to explain the benefits and pitfalls of adopting web services. He also suggests how your organization might adopt web services. He has really given this area some thought and it points out some things that will help you sell web services in your organization, if you are thinking of adopting the technology. He includes a couple of interviews with leaders in web service. It is interesting to hear the perspectives of people on the cutting edge of the technology. Combine all the above with the author's easy to read style, I can definitely recommend this book.
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