Ebook: Service-Oriented Architecture: A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services

Why this guide is important; The hammer and XML; XML and Web services; Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture; Service-Oriented Architecture and the hammer; The hammer and you; The XML & Web Services Integration Framework (XWIF);Hoe this guide is organized: Pat I:The technical Landscape; Part II: Integrating technology; Part III: Integrating applications; Patr IV: Integrating the enterprise; www.soabooks.com; Contact the author; Introduction to XML technologies; Extensible Markup Language (XML); Document Type Definitions (DTD); XML Schema Definition Language (XSD); Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT); XML Query Language (XQuery); XML Path Language (XPath);Introduction to Web services technologies; Web services and the service-oriented architecture(SOA); Web Services Descritption Language (WSDL); Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP); Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI); Introduction ti secind-gerenation(WS-*) Web services technologies; Second-generation Web services and the service-oriented enterprise(SOE); WS-Coordination and WS- Transaction; Business Process Execution Language for Web SErvices (BPEL4WS); WS-Security and the Web services security specifications; WS-ReliableMessaging; WS-Policy; WS-Attachments; Integrating XML into appilcations; Strategies for integrating XML data representation; Integrating Web Services into applications; Integrating XML and databases; The mechanucs of application integration; Service-oriented architectures for legacy integration; Service-Oriented architectures for enterprise integration; Service-oriented integration strategies; Thirty Best practices for integrating XML; Thirty best practices dor integrating Web services; Building the service-oriented enterprise(SOE).