Developing Enterprise Web Services: An Architect's Guide

Architect's Note

• Web services are remotely hosted and managed applications whose capabilities can be accessed programmatically by client applications via an addressable URL.

• The core Web services platform, consisting of SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, provides the means for building distributed applications based on industry standard technologies, interfaces, and protocols.

• The core Web services platform does not provide all of the necessary capabilities on which to build enterprise systems. Additional technologies are being developed and are being standardized that can be layered on top of the core platform and provide support for security and authentication, transactions, mobile and wireless access, quality-of-service, workflows, conversations, systems ...