- Hardcover: 588 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (26 Nov 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0470091487
- ISBN-13: 978-0470091487
- Product Dimensions: 24.9 x 17.4 x 3.9 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,474,914 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This comprehensive text explains the principles and practice of Web services and relates all concepts to practical examples and emerging standards. Its discussions include:
- Ontologies
- Semantic web technologies
- Peer–to–peer service discovery
- Service selection
- Web structure and link analysis
- Distributed transactions
- Process modelling
- Consistency management.
The application of these technologies is clearly explained within the context of planning, negotiation, contracts, compliance, privacy, and network policies. The presentation of the intellectual underpinnings of Web services draws from several key disciplines such as databases, distributed computing, artificial intelligence, and multi–agent systems for techniques and formalisms. Ideas from these disciplines are united in the context of Web services and service–based applications.
Featuring an accompanying website and teacher’s manual that includes a complete set of transparencies for lectures, copies of open–source software for exercises and working implementations, and resources to conduct course projects, this book makes an excellent graduate textbook. It will also prove an invaluable reference and training tool for practitioners.
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Learn how to build more effective distributed applications with Web services!
Service–Oriented Computing explains the principles and practice of successful services, with many of its concepts developed in the context of Web services. Since every aspect of a service is geared towards compatibility – so they can be described, selected, engaged, evaluated, and collaborated with – Web services allow a more effective development of distributed applications than previous software approaches.
Service–Oriented Computing presents the concepts, architectures, techniques, and infrastructure necessary for employing services. It provides a comprehensive overview of the state–of–the–art in Web services and associated disciplines, relating concepts to practical examples and emerging standards. Applications of technologies are explained within the context of planning, negotiation, contacts, compliance, privacy, and network policies.
Service–Oriented Computing:
- Draws from several key disciplines such as databases, distributed computing, artificial intelligence, and multiagent systems.
- Covers basic standards and protocols (XML, SOAP, WSDL, .NET, J2EE) in–depth.
- Describes advanced concepts such as ontologies, Semantic Web technologies, distributed transactions, process modeling, consistency management, organization, business protocols, peer–to–peer service discovery, and service selection.
- Contains a detailed section on the web ontology language (OWL) as well as business process languages (WSCI, BPEL4WS, BPML, and ebXML).
- Features an accompanying website with a complete set of transparencies, solutions to exercises, and open–source and public–domain tools for you to build and experiment with your own service–oriented computing systems.
This invaluable reference will serve as a comprehensive senior undergraduate and postgraduate student textbook on service–oriented computing, enabling practitioners, technologists, strategists, and researchers to be adequately prepared for the fast–approaching explosion in Web service provision.
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unclear whether this can give the Semantic Web, 24 Nov 2005
By W Boudville - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Service-Oriented Computing (Hardcover)
The book certainly has ambitious scope. It is essentially trying to devise what Tim Berners-Lee has famously called the Semantic Web. The means is by the implementation of service oriented computing. Not surprisingly, the book spends a lot of necessary space on explaining the various Web Services standards that underpin Service Oriented Architecture. Like ebXML and Business Process (Execution) Language. The book does this with commendable rigour.
That is the easy part. Far harder is where the authors delve into the fuzzier subjects of modelling and ontology. Thus we go into the Resource Description Framework and OWL. While we are shown the potential power of these, the text also points out that OWL has limitations, as in how it does not allow for constraint reasoning.
But more generally, there will be different ontologies used by different groups on the Internet. With expected inconsistencies. Which gives problems to such goals as more intelligent searching by the various search engines. All these are very difficult issues that touch on the heart of artificial intelligence. It is unclear whether SOC will see us through this morass.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Overpriced and Academically Thick, 20 Sep 2005
By Quality Man "yway6" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Service-Oriented Computing (Hardcover)
We are using this book for a graduate course, and I've now read 11 chapters thus far. The book reminds me of a compilation of several academic papers (and that's not a compliment). I find that almost all the information in this book I can find on the web for free and explained better. Further, the authors have very little skill in explaning concepts and providing understandable examples for their audience. Our professor has to supplement this book with hand-outs just so the class can understand better. This book may be good for other academic stiffs versed in SOC already, but it is terrible for experienced computer scientists looking to enter the subject.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Does its job and nothing more, 18 April 2008
By Richard Stone "Author" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Service-Oriented Computing (Hardcover)
A lot of the information in this book is self-explanatory, and the tougher aspects(OWL,RDF) not nearly enough information was put in. The expanded sections on logic with time as a parameter was interesting, as well as the transaction protocols, but after a while it was like beating a dead horse and it seemed there was distinct lack of meat to the book. I would have prefer he expanded on the abstract theory and transactional logic in a more rigorous sense and would have spent much less time on the more common sense factors in Service Oriented Computing. That being said, this is the programming model of web programming, and any CS or IS person would be well suited to learn it.
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