Web Services Implementation Guide

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Architag Press is proud to announce Web Services Implementation Guide

By Brian Travis and Mae Ozkan
ISBN: 0-9649602-3-0
324 Pages
List price: $49.95 (Trade paperback)

Getting value from stuff you don't own is a compelling idea. Just think, someone else has created something that has value, and has made it available to you. You can now leverage its value in ways that makes all parties richer. That's the promise of web services.

You need to know about web services. The advent of standards-based web services marks a new era of system development. First mainframe, then client-server, the Web, now web services makes it possible to leverage every legacy system of the past and do so much more with your information assets.

This book will show you what a web service is, and how you can align your internal systems and external trading partner interactions to take advantage of this new concept in system integration.

You will learn about the "Three Steps to Web Services":

1. Automate internal systems
2. Determine integration points
3. Expose integration points as web services

This book is for systems architects, developers, and I.T. decision makers.

Highlights in this book:

• Written in a light, entertaining style.
• Emphasis on architectural design for web services.
• A tutorial on the state of web services standards.
• Plenty of real-life examples of web service use.
• Tutorials on the key technologies: XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI.
• Code samples of key XML-based web services technologies and extensions.
• Companion Web site with all code samples and late-breaking information.

Web Services Implementation Guide is a multiple-volume set. Volume 1 shows you how to align your thinking and systems to get the most of web services. Volume 2 is a technical treatise for developers. Volume 3 discusses real-life implementations of web services solutions.

Web Services Implementation Guide was released in June, 2002.

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