Preface
“Web services are a mess!”
“There are more than 150 Web services (WS-*) specs!”
“Simple? This stuff is more complicated than CORBA!”
“There is no architecture; just a bunch of competing specs!”
“These specs are denser than plutonium!”
Those are some of the statements we’ve heard from people—including our own colleagues—about Web services. That’s why we wrote this book: to show that the WS-* platform is not a random walk through a space of WS-* specifications but rather an organized, structured architecture with well-defined design and architectural objectives. We apply these objectives when working on WS-* specifications and when deciding whether or not we need a new specification in a certain area.
The objective of this book is to present the ...
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