The Emerging Business of Web Services
An Annotated List of Resources
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The Business of Web Services |
Web services: the very idea
Web services business models
How the market will develop
Miscellaneous
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Application Case Studies |
Web services
Web service-like examples
There are lots of information services out there that don't use
SOAP, XML or other technologies typically associated with Web
services. Some are presented here as examples of what Web services
may come. Also consider: is the Web services story sufficiently
compelling to re-implement these?
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Corporate Web Services Strategies |
Vendor overview
Microsoft
Sun
IBM
BEA
HP
Oracle
Others
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Technology and Standards |
- A
Web Services Primer
Introduction to the standards and technologies of Web services
- At
the Core of Web Services Standards
Brief descriptions of the core standards.
- From
Chaos to Cooperation
How XML and other standards based on XML are enabling Web services.
- Web
Services Business Objects and Component Models
How Web services relates to existing component models: COM,
CORBA and EJB.
- Architecting
Web Services
by William L. Oellermann Jr.
While most books on Web services jump right into the details
of SOAP, WSDL, etc., architecting Web services keeps the focus
on the architecture of the solution, as the name implies. Notably,
SOAP and the other standards are described only in the back
of the book.
- Professional
XML Web Services
by Vivek Chopra, et al
- Myths
and misunderstandings surrounding SOAP
- SOAP:
Cross Platform Web Services Development Using XML
by Scott Seely, Kent Sharkey
- Using
SOAP
by John Mueller
- Repurposing
CGI applications with SOAP
- Web service invocation sans SOAP, Part
1, Part
2
- Understanding WSDL in a UDDI registry, Part
1, Part
2
- Why
UDDI Will Succeed, Quietly
- Global
XML Web Services Architecture
Presents three example applications of today's Web services,
then describes the need for additional standards for security,
routing, messaging and transactions.
Microsoft .NET technology
- Web
Services the Microsoft Way
Describes how Microsoft's .NET framework relates to Web services.
- Introducing
Microsoft .NET
by David S. Platt, Keith Ballinger
While there are some code snippets in this book, it's more of
a higher-level description of the kinds of problems .NET is
out to solve. Chapters include.NET Objects, ASP.NET and Webforms,
Web services and Windows Forms.
- Introducing
.NET
by James Conard, et al
A more technical book than Introducing Microsoft .NET,
this one is written for programmers. It goes beyond the overview
of .NET to discuss C#, VB.NET, VisualStudio.NET, ADO.NET and
Enterprise servers.
- Free download: Visual
Studio .NET release candidate
- BizTalk
J2EE
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Standards Specs |
The core standards
Business-level semantics
Other standards
On standards
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Related Technologies |
Web Services and process
Imagine a future time when Web services are pervasive. It's easy
to outsource information tasks, simply by connecting to an appropriate
service across the Web. It's easy to augment the capabilities
of your Web site by pulling content or other capabilities from
a service and feeding it through to present on your site. How
do you prepare your business to take advantage of these capabilities?
There is an affinity between Web services and process. Web services
can be thought of as process components that can be used to build
larger business processes.
- Web
Services and Collaborative Commerce
- The
eProcess Edge: Creating Customer Value & Business in the
Internet Era
by Peter Keen, Mark McDonald
The authors talk about four aspects of process: automation,
out-tasking, in-sourcing and handling exceptions. The first
three have to do with Web services. Automation is getting software
to do a previously manual job, out-tasking is having your business
process go through an external service and in-sourcing is pulling
data or other services into your site from outside. The main
point of the book is to rethink your business as a collection
of process components. Note that this differs from the Business
Process Re-engineering view of process as mapping work as it
flows through a company.
- Digital
Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs
by Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, Alex Lowy
Business webs are businesses virtually integrated through an
Internet infrastructure. While this book doesn't address Web
services specifically, the vision it describes is consistent
with the Web services vision.
EDI
Applications for Web services are often described as B2B transactions.
EDI is currently in place and working for many large corporations
for this sort of thing. What will be the interplay between Web
services and EDI?
Workflow
The workflow view of process is mainly about making sure that
work moves through the organization efficiently. It helps to track
the progress of jobs, alert people when new tasks come in, alert
managers to disruptions and bottlenecks and generally ensure that
work gets done and the ball doesn't get dropped.
EAI
Enterprise Application Integration is the notion of tying applications
together into an integrated whole. It's scope is generally confined
to within an enterprise, although there is no need to be restricted.
Application integration is easier within one company because it
can mandate standards that all must adhere to. That's less likely
outside the entreprise, so we see companies agreeing to standards
like those for Web services.
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Web Services Resources |
Directories of Web Services
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Keeping Up |
Newsletters
Newsgroups and discussions
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Know of some great resources we've overlooked?
Additional topics that should be covered? Mistakes we've made?
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