Developing Enterprise Web Services and Applications: An Architect's Guide

Build Web services with enterprise-class reliability, performance, and value

Web services are transforming IT, and represent a powerful new way to reduce cost and drive top-line growth throughout the enterprise. This book takes a no-nonsense view of architecting and constructing enterprise-class Web services and applications. The authors expertly assess the current state of the Web services platform, offering best practices and new architectural patterns for leveraging the advantages of Web services--and mitigating the risks.

• Build Web services and applications that meet enterprise requirements for security, mobility, transactions, QoS, workflow, portlets, management, and more
• Avoid the "bottomless pit" of application rewriting and maintenance overhead
• Architect applications to stay reliable even if some Web services go off-line
• Scale applications to support the inclusion of Web services from multiple partners
• Secure private information within Web services environments
• Develop high-value mobile Web service applications
• Includes a detailed case study

Whether you're an architect, developer, project leader, or manager, this book will help you deliver on the promise of Web services in your real-world enterprise environment.

David Bunnell, the founder of PC Magazine, MacWorld, and other well-known computer publications, introduces this guide to building Web services that must be extremely reliable, secure, and functional. Chatterjee and Webber, PhD-level technology experts/consultants, treat these challenges by presenting models (e.g., SOAP) and a case study detailing requirements including: workflow, programming for mobile systems, putting source code together, and managing the growing number and type of Web services within the enterprise. The guide concludes with a look at the future of Web service standards and platforms and the organizations that are driving this evolution. Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

DR. SANDEEP CHATTERJEE is a seasoned technology expert and business professional with over a decade of hands-on contributions as a technologist, consultant, entrepreneur, and author. He is Chief Technology Officer of a startup focused on Web services delivery and management, and also serves as a Chief Technology Consultant for Fortune-100 and major not-for-profit organizations including Hewlett-Packard and ACCION International. Sandeep served on the Expert Group that specified the worldwide standard for mobile Web services, and was the lead of Hewlett-Packard's Web Services Mediation Platform. He was also Entrepreneur-in-Residence at FidelityCAPITAL, the VC arm of Fidelity Investments. Sandeep holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his research in mobile systems was selected as one of the top 35 inventions in the 35-year history of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.

DR. JAMES WEBBER is an architect and Web Services fanatic at Arjuna Technologies where he works on Web services transaction and Grid computing technology. Prior to joining Arjuna Technologies, he was the lead developer with Hewlett-Packard working on their BTP-based Web Services Transactions product—the industry's first Web Services Transaction solution. An active speaker and Web Services proponent, Jim is a co-author of the WS-CAF suite of specifications. Jim holds a B.Sc. in Computing Science and Ph.D. in Parallel Computing both from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.