Web Services

Professor Mike Papazoglou is a Director at the Infolab at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. He has written over 100 scientific journal articles, and is the author of 13 books, including 'Co-operative Information Systems' and 'The Next Generation of Information Systems'.

PART 1 BASICS
Chapter 1. Web Services basics
1.1. Introduction
1.2. The Concept of Software as a Service
1.3. A More Complete Definition of Web Services
1.4. Characteristics of Web Services
1.5. Service Interface and Implementation
1.6. The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
1.7. The Web Services Technology Stack
1.8. Quality of Service
1.9. Web Services Interoperability
1.10. Web Services versus Components
1.11. Impact and Shortcomings of Web Services
1.12. Summary

PART 2 ENABLING INFRASTRUCTURE
Chapter 2. Distributed Computing Infrastructure
2.1. Distributed Computing and Internet Protocols
2.2. The Client/Server Model
2.3. Characteristics of Inter-Process Communication
2.4. Synchronous Forms of Middleware
2.5. Asynchronous Forms of Middleware
2.6. Request/Reply Messaging
2.7. Message Oriented Middleware
2.8. Transaction Oriented Middleware
2.9. EnterpriseApplication and e-Business Integration
2.10. Summary
Chapter 3. Brief Overview of XML
3.1. XML Document Structure
3.2. URIs and XML Namespaces
3.3. Defining Structure in XML Documents
3.4. XML Schema Reuse
3.5. Document Navigation and Transformation
3.6. Summary

PART 3 CORE FUNCTIONALITY AND STANDARDS
Chapter 4. SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
4.1. Inter-Application Communication and Wire Protocols
4.2. SOAP as a Messaging Protocol
4.3. Structure of a SOAP Message
4.4. The SOAP Communication Model
4.5. Error Handling in SOAP
4.6. SOAP over HTTP
4.7. Advantages and Disadvantages of SOAP
4.8. Summary
Chapter 5. Describing Web Services
5.1. Why is a Service Description Needed?
5.2. WSDL: Web services Description Language.
5.3. Using WSDL to Generate Client Stubs
5.4. Non-functional Descriptions in WSDL
5.5. Summary
Chapter 6. Registering and Discovering Web Services
6.1. Service Registries
6.2. Service Discovery
6.3. UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration.
6.4. Summary

PART 4: EVENT NOTIFICATION AND SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES
Chapter 7. Addressing and Notification
7.1. Web Services and Stateful Resources
7.2. Introduction to the WS-Resource Framework
7.3. Web Services Notification
7.4. Web Services Eventing
7.5. Summary
Chapter 8. Service-Oriented Architectures
8.1. What is a Software Architecture
8.2. The Service Oriented Architecture Revisited.
8.3. Service Roles in an SOA
8.4. Reliable Messaging
8.5. The Enterprise Service Bus
8.6. The Extended Service Oriented Architecture
8.7. Summary

PART 5: SERVICE COMPOSITION AND SERVICE TRANSACTIONS
Chapter 9. Processes and Workflows
9.1. Business Processes and their Management
9.2. Workflows
9.3. Business Process Integration and Management
9.4. Cross-enterprise Business Processes
9.5. Service Composition Meta-model
9.6. Web Services Orchestration and Choreography
9.7. The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
9.8. Choreography
9.9. Other Initiatives and Languages
9.10. Summary
Chapter 10. Transaction Processing
10.1. What is a Transaction?
10.2. Distributed Transactions
10.3. Nested Transactions
10.4. Transactional Web Services
10.5. WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction
10.6. Web Service Composite Application Framework
10.7. Summary

PART 6: SERVICE SECURITY AND POLICIES
Chapter 11. Securing Web Services
11.1. Web Services Security Considerations
11.2. Network Level Security Mechanisms
11.3. Application Level Security Mechanisms
11.4. Security Topologies
11.5. XML Security Standards
11.6. Securing Web Services
11.7. Summary
Chapter 12. Service Policies and Agreements
12.1. What are Policies and why are they Needed?
12.2. Types of Policies
12.3. Policies and Web Services Standards
12.4. WS-Policy Framework
12.5. Service Agreements
12.6. Summary

PART 7: SERVICE SEMANTICS AND BUSINESS PROTOCOLS
Chapter 13. Semantics and Web Services
13.1. The semantic Interoperability Problem
13.2. The Role of Metadata
13.3. Resource Description Framework
13.4. Richer Schema Languages
13.5. WS-Metadata Exchange
13.6. Summary
Chapter 14. Business Protocols
14.1. The Supply Chain Business EcoSystem
14.2. Semantic Problems at the Business Process-Level
14.3. Business Standards and Protocols
14.4. XML in Vertical Organizations
14.5. Summary.

PART 8: SERVICE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 15. Web Services Development Lifecycle
15.1. Why is a Web Services Development Methodology Needed?
15.2. Web Services Development and Related Methodologies
15.3. System Development Life Cycle
15.4. Properties of Service-Oriented Design and Development
15.5. Service-Oriented Design and Development Milestones
15.6. Qualitiy of Service-Oriented Design and Development.
15.7. Overview of Web Services Development Life Cycle
15.8 The Planning Phase
15.9 The Analysis Phase
15.10. The Service Design Phase
15.11. The Service Construction Phase
15.12 The Service Test Phase
15.13 The Service Provisioning Phase
15.14 The Service Deployment Phase
15.15 The Service Execution Phase
15.16 The Service Monitoring Phase
15.17 Summary

PART 9: SERVICE MANAGEMENT
Chapter 16. Web Services Management
16.1. Managing Distributed Systems
16.2. Enterprise Management Frameworks
16.3. Conceptual Management Architecture
16.4. Standard Distributed Management Frameworks
16.5. Web Services Management
16.6. The Web Services Distributed Management Initiative
16.7. Summary

PART 10: EMERGING TRENDS
Chapter 17. Recent Trends and Developments
17.1. Grid Computing
17.2. Mobile Computing
17.3. Summary
References
Index