Web Services are the latest mega-trend in the Internet. This book is written by leading researchers in the field and emphasizes fundamental concepts, technical challenges and visions. It also explains implementation issues and describes in an unbiased way the main commercial products currently available.

Presents complete technical vision and technology Presents architecture and technology of main products Explains technical necessity for web services Written by leading experts from Industry and Academia Authors are involved in Web Services Interoperability Organization (MS, IBM, HP, Oracle, SAP) Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
I Conventional Middleware.- 1 Distributed Information Systems.- 2 Middleware.- 3 Enterprise Application Integration.- 4 Web Technologies.- II Web Services.- 5 Web Services.- 6 Basic Web Services Technology.- 7 Service coordination protocols.- 8 Service Composition.- 9 Outlook.