The Insider's Guide to Building Breakthrough Services with Today's New Web Services Platform

Using today's new Web services platform, you can build services that are secure, reliable, efficient at handling transactions, and well suited to your evolving service-oriented architecture. What's more, you can do all that without compromising the simplicity or interoperability that made Web services so attractive. Now, for the first time, the experts who helped define and architect this platform show you exactly how to make the most of it.

Unlike other books, Web Services Platform Architecture covers the entire platform. The authors illuminate every specification that's ready for practical use, covering messaging, metadata, security, discovery, quality of service, business-process modeling, and more. Drawing on realistic examples and case studies, they present a powerfully coherent view of how all these specifications fit together-and how to combine them to solve real-world problems.

• Service orientation: Clarifying the business and technical value propositions
• Web services messaging framework: Using SOAP and WS-Addressing to deliver Web services messages
• WSDL: Documenting messages and supporting diverse message interactions
• WS-Policy: Building services that specify their requirements and capabilities, and how to interface with them
• UDDI: Aggregating metadata and making it easily available
• WS-MetadataExchange: Bootstrapping efficient, customized communication between Web services
• WS-Reliable Messaging: Ensuring message delivery across unreliable networks
• Transactions: Defining reliable interactions with WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction, and WS-BusinessActivity
• Security: Understanding the roles of WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, and WS-Federation
• BPEL: Modeling and executing business processes as service compositions

Web Services Platform Architecture gives you an insider's view of the platform that will change the way you deliver applications. Whether you're an architect, developer, technical manager, or consultant, you'll find it indispensable.

• Foreword by Steve Mills
• Foreword by Ronald Schmelzer
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Introduction
• Messaging Framework
• Describing Metadata
• Discovering Metadata
• Reliable Interaction
• Security
• Service Composition
• Case Studies
• Conclusion
• References
• Index