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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:
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.
Does its job and nothing moreReviewed by Nathan Thelen, 2008-04-18
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.
Comprehensive Coverage of StandardsReviewed by Lee W. Lacy, 2006-09-20
The authors cover a myriad of standards that support web services. The text and associated website provide useful examples. The bibliography is extensive and shows the amount of research that went into developing this extremely helpful text. I would recommend the book for technologists as well as instructors.
Review of Service-Oriented ComputingReviewed by Tedd W. Gimber, 2006-02-24
This book is an extensive and scholarly work covering the full
scope of service oriented architectures and computing. It begins
with a thorough review of the technology involved and then works
through the challenges and application of this emerging
paradigm.
Be warned - this is not "Semantic Web for Dummies". This is a
serious book for people who need to go beyond the basics. As a
researcher in software agent technologies, this book has helped me
to better understand the issues involved in creating service based
solutions. This book is useful as both a reference and as study in
these exciting and emerging technologies that will be essential for
anyone involved in creating the next phase of internet computing.
Book achieves it's purposeReviewed by Interested in Web Services, 2006-01-30
I really think the book achieve's the purpose that the authors intended. I am actually taking a graduate course centered on service oriented computing taught by one of the authors Dr. Singh. While I have not read the entire text in length(And who of us end up reading a full tech book anyway) I think I can safeley say that for the first edition of the text the authors have done a super job. Personally I think the text attempts and does a pretty good job of providing at least more than a basic level of understanding and comfort with service oriented computing. The authors note that an effective understanding of SOC (or anything in my opinion) can not come from studying the underlining standards alone. Justification points to the ever increasing abtraction of technology. This unique approach to learning a technical subject is quite different and unique from what I have been used to. I think the text really offers a different viewpoint of the subject. I gave the book 5 stars because of that reason. This might not be the only book I would recommend for learning web services but in technology, diversity can go a long way.
unclear whether this can give the Semantic WebReviewed by W Boudville, 2005-11-24
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.
