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Web Services
Web Services are the latest technology for changing the Internet into a set of dynamically linked applications with almost ubiquitous availability. This megatrend is recognized and promoted by all major computer and consulting companies. This book describes the fundamental concepts behind the notion of web services, the challenges and possible solutions
to realize the web services vision, and the approaches and architectures for modeling, implementing and deploying web services. The reader will learn how web services technology helps to solve existing interoperability and integration problems as well as how they enable completely new application scenarios. As the book also presents the basic architecture and philosophy of the main commercial products, standards and technologies, the user will as well get an understanding of their advantages, disadvatages, and potential.
Part I - Distributed Information Systems: Architecture of Information Systems, Application Integration, Web-based Application Integrations. Part II Web Information Systems: Web Services, Service Description Advertisement and Discovery, Service Composition, Service Management, Outlook, Conclusions
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