Understanding SOA with Web Services (Independent Technology Guides Series)

Along the way, they present specific approaches and solutions for a wide range of enterprise integration and development challenges, including the largest and most complex.

Coverage includes

• Why SOA has emerged as the dominant approach to enterprise integration

• How and why Web services provide the ideal foundation for SOA

• Underlying concepts shared by all SOAs: governance, service contracts, Web services platforms, service-oriented development, and more

• Implementing service-level communications, discovery, security, data handling, transaction management, and system management

• Using SOA to deliver application interoperability, multichannel client access, and business process management

• Practical tutorials on WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-AtomicTransactions, WS-Composite Application Framework, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, and WS-BPEL

Whether you're an architect, developer, or IT manager, Understanding SOA with Web Services will help you get SOA right—and achieve both the business and technical goals you've set for it.

Intended for IT managers and architects, this book introduces the service-oriented architecture (SOA) for connecting the various operational systems that automate an enterprise's business processes, and provides tutorials on the advanced web services technologies that help realize SOA solutions. It covers service contracts, .NET and J2EE interoperability, multi-channel access, business process management, metadata management, web services security, reliable messaging, and transaction processing. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

About the Authors

In the role of Chief Technology Officer at IONA, Eric Newcomer is responsible for IONA's technology roadmap and direction as relates to standards adoption, architecture, and product design. Eric joined IONA in November 1999 as transaction architect, and most recently served as Vice President of Engineering, Web Services Integration Products. Eric has 26 years experience in the computer industry, including more than 15 years at Digital Equipment Corporation/Compaq Computer, where he held a variety of technical and management positions before receiving a corporate-level technical appointment. Eric received his BA in American Studies from Antioch College, with a minor in computer science.

In addition to Understanding Web Services, published in 2002, Eric is co-author of Principles of Transaction Processing, published in 1997 by Morgan Kaufman, and co-author of a chapter called "The Keys to the Highway" in The Future of Software, published in 1995 by MIT Press. Eric is also the author of numerous white papers and articles, co-author and editor of the Structured Transaction Definition Language specification published by X/Open (now The Open Group) in 1994, former member of the Transaction Internet Protocol working group at IETF, former member of the X/Open Distributed Transaction Processing committee that created the XA specification, former chair of the OTS RTF at OMG, and chair of the team that developed the

Greg Lomow, Ph.D., is a senior manager and consultant for BearingPoint, Inc. Greg has 12 years of experience as a consultant and enterprise architect working in the financial services, telecom, and federal government sectors designingbusiness applications using service-oriented architecture, developing simulation applications using distributed object technology, and training developers in object-oriented design and programming techniques. He also worked for eight years as a product manager at Jade Simulations, Level 8 Systems, and IONA Technologies responsible for integration, web services, and middleware products. Greg co-authored C++ Frequently Asked Questions published by Addison-Wesley in October 1999 (1st ed.) and again in January 1999 (2nd ed.). He completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Calgary, Canada, in 1988. Greg is an active member of the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization.

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