Description

Web services allow new and improved ways for enterprise applications to communicate and integrate with each other over the Web and, as such, are having a profound effect on both the worlds of business and of software development.

The new edition of this bestselling book offers a comprehensive and up to date treatment of web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), giving you all you need to know to gain a solid foundation in this area. Building upon the clear, accessible approach of the first edition, it provides a complete introduction to the concepts, principles, technology and standards of web services. The book also provides an in depth examination of good design and development practises for SOA applications in organisations.

Features

• A spiral approach to instruction helps readers build on and reinforce basic knowledge as the topics become more advanced.
• Numerous examples which demonstrate the practical application of the theory are included.
• Self-test questions, hints, tips and discussion topics feature throughout the book to support self-directed learning.
• Two new chapters have been added on SOA modelling and Cloud Computing technology.
• A comprehensive real-life case study containing numerous practical examples has been integrated and referenced throughout the entire book, to give readers ‘hands-on’ insight into applying theory to practice, and enhance understanding of the key concepts.
• Business Process modelling Notation (BPMN), which is rapidly becoming an industry standard, is used throughout the book.
• Discussion of software engineering issues related to implementing sound SOA applications is included.
• Description of new standards, such as BPEL v2.0 is discussed.
• A Companion Website offers detailed coding solutions available to download.

New to this Edition

• Two new chapters have been added on SOA modelling and cloud computing technology.
• A comprehensive real-life case study containing numerous practical examples has been integrated and referenced throughout the entire book to give readers ‘hands-on’ insight into applying theory to practice, and enhance understanding of the key concepts.
• Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN), which is rapidly becoming an industry standard, is used throughout the book.
• Discussion of software engineering issues related to implementing sound SOA applications is included.
• Description of new standards, such as BPEL v2.0 is discussed.
• A Companion Website (www.pearsoned.co.uk/papazoglou) offers detailed coding solutions available to download.

Table of Contents

Comprehensive case study

A.1         Overview of case study

A.2         Background: Automotive supply chain

A.3         Case study objectives           

A.4         SOA work plan stages          

A.5         Solution

 

PART I        Basics

Chapter 1: Web Service and SOA Fundamentals

1.1          Introduction

1.2          The concept of software as service (SaaS)

1.3          Web services vs. Web-based applications

1.4          A more complete definition of Web services

1.5          Characteristics of Web services        

1.6          Service interface and implementation

1.7          The service-oriented architecture                   

1.8          The Web services technology stack   

1.9          Quality of service (QoS)       

1.10        Web services interoperability

1.11        Web services versus components

1.12        RESTful services

1.13        Impact and shortcomings of Web services

1.14        Summary

Review questions

Exercises

 

PART II    Enabling Infrastructure

Chapter 2: Distributed Computing Infrastructure

2.1          Distributed computing and Internet protocols 

2.2          Middleware

2.3          The client–server model

2.4          Inter-process communication

2.5          Synchronous forms of middleware     

2.6          Asynchronous forms of middleware   

2.7          Request/reply messaging

2.8          Message-oriented middleware          

2.9          Transaction-oriented middleware

2.10        Enterprise application and e-Business integration       

2.11        Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

 

Chapter 3: Brief Overview of XML

3.1          XML document structure      

3.2          XML namespaces

3.3          Defining structure in XML documents

3.4          Reuse of XML schemas        

3.5          Document navigation and transformation        

3.6          Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

 

PART III     Core functionality and standards

Chapter 4: SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol

4.1          Inter-application communication and wire protocols

4.2          SOAP as a messaging protocol

4.3          Structure of a SOAP message           

4.4          SOAP communication model

4.5          Error handling in SOAP

4.6          Advantages and disadvantages of SOAP

4.7          Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

 

Chapter 5: Describing Web services

5.1          Why is service description needed?

5.2          WSDL: Web Services Description Language

5.3          Non-functional service descriptions

5.4          WSDL 1.1 vs WSDL 2.0

5.5          Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

 

Chapter 6: Registering and Discovering Services

6.1          The role of service registries

6.2          Service discovery

6.3          Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration      

6.4          Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

 

PART IV     Event notification and Service Oriented Architectures

Chapter 7: Service Addressing and Notification

7.1          Referencing and addressing Web services     

7.2          Web Services Notification    

7.3          Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

 

Chapter 8: Service-Oriented Architectures

8.1          What is software architecture?          

8.2          SOA revisited

8.3          Service roles in an SOA

8.4          Reliable messaging    

8.5          The Enterprise Service Bus   

8.6          The extended SOA

8.7          Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

 

PART V       Service composition and transactions

Chapter 9: Service Composition And Business Processes

9.1          Business processes and their management

9.2          Workflows

9.3          Business Process Management

9.4          Cross-Enterprise Business Processes

9.5          Service composition model

9.6          Service orchestration and choreography        

9.7          WS-BPEL: The Business Process Execution Language                      

9.8          Web Services Choreography

9.9          Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

 

Chapter 10: Service Transactions

10.1        What is a transaction?           

10.2        Distributed transactions         

10.3        Nested transactions  

10.4        Web service transactions      

10.5        Web Service Coordination    

10.6        Web service transaction types           

10.7        Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

 

PART VI     SOA security and policies

Chapter 11: Securing SOA and Web Services

11.1        SOA and web services security considerations          

11.2        Network-level security mechanisms   

11.3        Application-level security mechanisms                       

11.4        Security topologies

11.5        XML security standards        

11.6        Securing SOA and Web services                  

11.7        Summary of key points

Review questions

Exercises

 

Chapter 12: Service policies

12.1        What are policies and why are they needed? 

12.2        Types of policies       

12.3        Service policy support standards

12.4        WS-Policy framework          

12.5        Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

 

 

PART VII    Service semantics and business protocols

Chapter 13: Semantics and Web Services

13.1        The semantic interoperability problem

13.2        The role of metadata 

13.3        Service metadata

13.4        Resource Description Framework     

13.5        Richer schema languages

13.6        WS-MetadataExchange

13.7        Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

 

Chapter 14: Business Protocols and Standards

14.1        The supply-chain business ecosystem

14.2        Semantic problems at the business process level

14.3        Business standards and protocols      

14.4        Vertical industry standards    

14.5        Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

 

PART VIII  SOA modeling, design and development

Chapter 15: SOA-Based Application Modeling

15.1        The art of modeling

15.2        Business process modeling methodologies     

15.3        Business process reference models    

15.4        Business Process Modeling Notation 

15.5        Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

 

Chapter 16: SOA Development Lifecycle

16.1        Unraveling the nature of SOA-based applications

16.2        Rationale for SOA-based application development

16.3        Typical SOA development pitfalls

16.4        Software development lifecycle         

16.5        Elements of SOA-based applications

16.6        Best practices for developing SOA-based applications

16.7        Reference model for SOA development        

16.8        Guiding principles of SOA application development   

16.9        Overview of SOA development lifecycle

16.10      The SOA planning phase

16.11      The SOA analysis phase       

16.12      The SOA design (specification) phase                       

16.13      The SOA construction phase

16.14      The SOA testing phase

16.15      The SOA provisioning phase 

16.16      The SOA deployment phase

16.17      The SOA execution phase

16.18      The SOA management and monitoring phase

16.19      SOA governance      

16.20      Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

 

PART IX     Service Management

Chapter 17: SOA and Web Service Management

17.1        Managing distributed systems

17.2        Enterprise management frameworks

17.3        Conceptual management architecture 

17.4        Standard distributed management frameworks

              

17.5        Web services management    

17.6        The Web Services Distributed Management initiative 

17.7        Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

Exercises

 

PART X       Emerging trends

Chapter 18: Cloud Computing

18.1        What is Cloud Computing?   

18.2        SOA meets the Cloud           

18.3        Virtualization             

18.4        Multi-tenancy           

18.5        Architecture model for Cloud Computing      

18.6        Cloud security          

18.7        Cloud service lifecycle

18.8        Cloud standards       

18.9        Benefits and risks of Cloud Computing          

18.10      Summary of learning objectives

Review questions

 

References

Index

 

Back Cover

Web services allow new and improved ways for enterprise applications to communicate and integrate with each other over the Web and, as such, are having a profound effect on both the worlds of business and of software development.

The new edition of this bestselling book offers a comprehensive and up to date treatment of web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), giving you all you need to know to gain a solid foundation in this area. Building upon the clear, accessible approach of the first edition, it provides a complete introduction to the concepts, principles, technology and standards of web services. The book also provides an in depth examination of good design and development practises for SOA applications in organisations.

Key features:

• A spiral approach to instruction helps readers build on and reinforce basic knowledge as the topics become more advanced.
• Numerous examples which demonstrate the practical application of the theory are included.
• Self-test questions, hints, tips and discussion topics feature throughout the book to support self-directed learning.

New to this edition:

• Two new chapters have been added on SOA modelling and Cloud Computing technology.
• A comprehensive real-life case study containing numerous practical examples has been integrated and referenced throughout the entire book to give readers ‘hands-on’ insight into applying theory to practice, and enhance understanding of the key concepts.
• Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN), which is rapidly becoming an industry standard, is used throughout the book.
• Discussion of software engineering issues related to implementing sound SOA applications is included.
• Description of new standards, such as BPEL v2.0 is discussed.
• A Companion Website (www.pearsoned.co.uk/papazoglou) offers detailed coding solutions available to download.

Web Services & SOA: Principles and Technology is an indispensable complete reference for IT-minded students and for professionals alike.

Michael P. Papazoglou is a senior Professor at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, where he is the Executive Director of the European Research Institute in Service Science (ERISS) and the Scientific Director of the European Network of Excellence in Software Services and Systems (S-Cube).