- Paperback: 784 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (19 July 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321155556
- ISBN-13: 978-0321155559
- Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 17.2 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Web services, usually including some combination of programming and data, are made available from a business's web server for web users and other web connected programs. The accelerating creation and availability of these services is a major computing trend as software becomes increasingly distributed and web-based. Web services are the next logical step for web-based computing and will have a profound impact on the way in which business is conducted on the web in the future. As they involve many different systems communicating with each other, they are particularly important following the proliferation in the range of computing devices (PDA's mobile telephones, hand held computers etc).
This book will provide a comprehensive treatment of the concepts and isses in web services, looking at how they are designed, and the key technologies, and standards used.
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Web Services: Principles and Technology
Michael Papazoglou
“This book is one of the most comprehensive treatments of web services I have seen. It covers the full gamut of concepts, principles, supporting technology and necessary infrastructure required to build a service-oriented architecture using today’s advanced standards. I highly recommend this book.”
–Dave Chappell: author Enterprise Service Bus
“This book, authored by one of the most respected experts in the web services field, is an invaluable reference for both academics and practitioners. Because of its rigor and completeness it is bound to become the definitive guide to web services technologies.”
–Francisco Curbera: manager, Component Systems, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Web services represent the next generation of web-based technology. They allow new and improved ways for enterprise applications to communicate and integrate with each other and, as such, are having a profound effect on both the worlds of business and of software development.
In this new book, Michael Papazoglou offers a comprehensive examination of web services which gives you all you will need to know to gain a solid foundation in this area. This book will help you to understand:
- The nature of web services – what they actually are
- The underlying concepts, principles, and methodologies of web services
- The fundamental technologies that underpin the web services paradigm
- How web services are introduced into organisations, and how they are designed, deployed and used
- The key standards necessary for the development of web services
Web Services: Principles and Technology is suitable for computer science students and also for professionals who need an introduction to this area. Key features to help reinforce your understanding include:
- Spiral approach to build on earlier knowledge as the topics become more advanced
- Numerous examples throughout demonstrate the practical application of the theory
- Self-test questions, hints and tips, and discussion topics feature throughout
Michael Papazoglou holds the chair of Computer Science and is director of the INFOLAB/CRISM at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book may very well turn out to be extremely useful for my work, but I'm not sure I will ever find out. The contents section for the book looks like it should contain everything I need, but the authors style is just soooooooo difficult to read. The guy uses 20 words where one would do and just to make himself seem more intelligent, which he no doubt is, he uses a profusion of words that could no doubt be substituted with easier ones to read. I'm not suggesting that he should dumb the content down, just make it easier to read a paragraph the once without having to read it again because you switched off before you got to the end of it.
Rant over.
Try something else.
Rant over.
Try something else.
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I have to say that this is a very hard subject to make interesting in a text book - reading through comprehensive explanations of detailed standards is no fun. So possibly, it would have been better to place all the detailed material on SOAP, WSDL and UDDI in appendices as few practitioners need to know these details. Tool vendors do, but leave it to them as you can use their tools to generate all this stuff. However, if you use the book sensibly and skip quickly through these first chapters, you will find much that is of value. It is much, much better as a reference than as a book to teach from - my students prefer practical tutorials for the motivating stuff. But as a reference, it is invaluable.
One criticism, however. I have not found any material in it on RESTful web services. I believe that this is a serious oversight and will limit its value over the coming years unless this is corrected in a revised edition.
One criticism, however. I have not found any material in it on RESTful web services. I believe that this is a serious oversight and will limit its value over the coming years unless this is corrected in a revised edition.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Broad, easily readable, and comprehensive - highly recommended tour
10 Dec 2007
Format:Paperback
This book stands out from the vast array of contemporary SOA and Web services literature in many ways:
1) It presents business context and technical requirements for Web services design on an adequate level of detail.
2) It provides important historical insight without putting the reader to sleep.
3) It covers relevant related work such as e-business, EAI, and networking as needed, unlike most other Web services books.
4) It separates abstract concepts such as messaging from implementation technology such as JMS appropriately, but shows the connections when needed.
5) It builds up a non-trivial example that demonstrates how the various specifications fit together, many unique illustrations help to digest.
6) It has non-trivial exercises that will deepen your understanding.
7) The author's has a hype-free, vendor-neutral writing style and is very experienced in his field.
It always is a good sign if as a reader I want more... so I would also have been interested in the author's view on the ongoing WS-*/SOAP vs. REST debate, and about adoption of the presented concepts and technologies in the industry (tools and project usage); for example, UDDI does not seem to have much traction these days. Maybe something for the Website accompanying the book, which will also have additional material for students and lecturers?
As a practicing IT architect, I have helped many companies to transform their existing applications into Web services-based SOAs. As a book author, I have captured my own experience with the technology in writing. As a researcher, I now investigate many of the architecture design issues the author points out. Still, I find this book to be very educational and informative; I highly recommend it for practitioners, students, and researchers that want to understand the big picture as well as technical rationale and details behind the various concepts and technologies. Those of you that believe some WSDL-to-Java wizards or RESTful POX/HTTP calls are all that is required for successful enterprise development and integration, please do have a look as well - you will begin to appreciate that there is more to the picture!
1) It presents business context and technical requirements for Web services design on an adequate level of detail.
2) It provides important historical insight without putting the reader to sleep.
3) It covers relevant related work such as e-business, EAI, and networking as needed, unlike most other Web services books.
4) It separates abstract concepts such as messaging from implementation technology such as JMS appropriately, but shows the connections when needed.
5) It builds up a non-trivial example that demonstrates how the various specifications fit together, many unique illustrations help to digest.
6) It has non-trivial exercises that will deepen your understanding.
7) The author's has a hype-free, vendor-neutral writing style and is very experienced in his field.
It always is a good sign if as a reader I want more... so I would also have been interested in the author's view on the ongoing WS-*/SOAP vs. REST debate, and about adoption of the presented concepts and technologies in the industry (tools and project usage); for example, UDDI does not seem to have much traction these days. Maybe something for the Website accompanying the book, which will also have additional material for students and lecturers?
As a practicing IT architect, I have helped many companies to transform their existing applications into Web services-based SOAs. As a book author, I have captured my own experience with the technology in writing. As a researcher, I now investigate many of the architecture design issues the author points out. Still, I find this book to be very educational and informative; I highly recommend it for practitioners, students, and researchers that want to understand the big picture as well as technical rationale and details behind the various concepts and technologies. Those of you that believe some WSDL-to-Java wizards or RESTful POX/HTTP calls are all that is required for successful enterprise development and integration, please do have a look as well - you will begin to appreciate that there is more to the picture!
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Ultimate Web Services reference book: Broad coverage, concise and comprehensiv
12 Nov 2007
Format:Paperback
As Web services are becoming one of the most popular technologies for a wide range of demanding IT applications, there is a growing need to get a thorough understanding of the foundations, principles, methodologies, technologies and protocols that under-pin them. This need, which is felt both by practitioners and the Computer Science students, is addressed superbly by the "Web services: principles and technology" book of Mike Papazoglou, one of the pioneers and world experts in the field.
Rarely will you find a book on Web Services that covers such an incredible broad range of inter-related topics with such authority and depth. The book is well organized, well written, broad, concise and comprehensive. It is an excellent coverage of the whole world of Web Services spanning principles, methodologies, engineering and technologies, which it all expertly laces together and explains with amazing clarity and sufficient details to allow a true and deep understanding of the subject.
The book covers such topics as:
* Distributed Computing Infrastructures, EAI systems and business-to-Business integration techniques
* Service Description and Publication
* Reliable Messaging and Event Notification
* Service-Oriented Architectures & the Enterprise Service Bus
* Web Services and Workflows
* Web Services Transactions
* Web Services Security
* Web Services Policies and Agreements
* Semantics and Web Services
* Business Protocols
* Web Services Development Life-cycle with emphasis on techniques for service analysis (including "as-is" and "to-be" analysis), design and service implementation options
* Web Services Management
* Grid and Mobile Services
This book is the definitive guide on Web services - excellent coverage on fundamentals, principles, operating guidelines combined with non-trivial case studies and examples which illustrate the design and engineering of Web services in a real-world setting. It provides a very precise, thorough and comprehensive treatment of Web services. Unlike other books, it goes beyond mere Web service standards, programming and implementation by placing emphasis on understanding of the concepts, principles, mechanisms and methodologies underpinning Web services.
I'm using this book in a Master's course at the University of Groningen and had a great response from the students, while I found my work as an instructor greatly facilitated by the clarity of the presentation and the available material (power point notes) for instructors. This said, I consider the book absolutely adequate also for self-study and for the novice who wants to explore the landscape of Web services.
To summarize, this book is an excellent and authoritative journey into the world of Web Services. It is an incredible read! Highly recommended!!
Rarely will you find a book on Web Services that covers such an incredible broad range of inter-related topics with such authority and depth. The book is well organized, well written, broad, concise and comprehensive. It is an excellent coverage of the whole world of Web Services spanning principles, methodologies, engineering and technologies, which it all expertly laces together and explains with amazing clarity and sufficient details to allow a true and deep understanding of the subject.
The book covers such topics as:
* Distributed Computing Infrastructures, EAI systems and business-to-Business integration techniques
* Service Description and Publication
* Reliable Messaging and Event Notification
* Service-Oriented Architectures & the Enterprise Service Bus
* Web Services and Workflows
* Web Services Transactions
* Web Services Security
* Web Services Policies and Agreements
* Semantics and Web Services
* Business Protocols
* Web Services Development Life-cycle with emphasis on techniques for service analysis (including "as-is" and "to-be" analysis), design and service implementation options
* Web Services Management
* Grid and Mobile Services
This book is the definitive guide on Web services - excellent coverage on fundamentals, principles, operating guidelines combined with non-trivial case studies and examples which illustrate the design and engineering of Web services in a real-world setting. It provides a very precise, thorough and comprehensive treatment of Web services. Unlike other books, it goes beyond mere Web service standards, programming and implementation by placing emphasis on understanding of the concepts, principles, mechanisms and methodologies underpinning Web services.
I'm using this book in a Master's course at the University of Groningen and had a great response from the students, while I found my work as an instructor greatly facilitated by the clarity of the presentation and the available material (power point notes) for instructors. This said, I consider the book absolutely adequate also for self-study and for the novice who wants to explore the landscape of Web services.
To summarize, this book is an excellent and authoritative journey into the world of Web Services. It is an incredible read! Highly recommended!!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Be prepared to learn concepts over and over again in this wordy masterpiece
4 Nov 2010
Format:Paperback
I chose this "textbook" for an independent study I'm doing on web services. I was excited to find a textbook considering most books on web services are trade books and don't get deep into the underlying concepts that make web services work. However, I was utterly disappointed after reading through the first nine chapters and decided to drop it and move on to my second text for the study, RESTful Web Services.
The author does a fair job covering in detail the underlying technologies that SOAP based web services use and the heavyweight, over-engineered suite of standards that can accompany SOAP based services (WSDL, UDDI, WS-*). I'm not pleased with how many times I felt I was reading the same thing over and over again. This happened at such a constant rate I would just skip to the next sections for fear of me wasting my time here on earth.
The book was published in 2008.....where is the talk about anything going on in the web services world besides SOAP and his buddies? The book does a horrible disservice, as the majority of the web services out there are using RESTful or REST/RPC hybrid style architectures. This book feels like it was was less of a textbook on web services and more of a detailed trade book on SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, and other over-engineered standards.
Just because this was recently published doesn't mean its accurately reflecting the state of web services. Given my experience I'd just recommend consulting a few google searches and some highly recommended tradebooks about web services.
The author does a fair job covering in detail the underlying technologies that SOAP based web services use and the heavyweight, over-engineered suite of standards that can accompany SOAP based services (WSDL, UDDI, WS-*). I'm not pleased with how many times I felt I was reading the same thing over and over again. This happened at such a constant rate I would just skip to the next sections for fear of me wasting my time here on earth.
The book was published in 2008.....where is the talk about anything going on in the web services world besides SOAP and his buddies? The book does a horrible disservice, as the majority of the web services out there are using RESTful or REST/RPC hybrid style architectures. This book feels like it was was less of a textbook on web services and more of a detailed trade book on SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, and other over-engineered standards.
Just because this was recently published doesn't mean its accurately reflecting the state of web services. Given my experience I'd just recommend consulting a few google searches and some highly recommended tradebooks about web services.
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