Contains everything that a project team needs to know about the development and deployment of Web services with the IBM WebSphere product family. Includes examples for all development artifacts in a format that can be reused in the reader's project. The text combines the authors' own practical experiences with consolidated information on the latest product capabilities in a unique approach that allows the book to be easily accessible to a broad spectrum of readers. Finding a balance between a euphoric/optimistic and down-to earth/realistic view on the subject, this book should sit on every Web service developer's bookshelf.

1 The Business Perspective.- 1.1 The Sponsor's View... and a Few Other Opinions l.- 1.2 Web Services - Holy Grail or Déjà Vu?.- 1.3 Usage Scenarios.- 1.4 Potential Inhibitors.- 1.5 Introduction to the Case Study.- 1.6 Summary.- 2 The Training Perspective.- 2.1 The Trainer's View... And What the Trainees Think.- 2.2 Web Services Concepts in a Nutshell.- 2.3 XML, XML Namespaces and XML Schema.- 2.4 Understanding SOAP.- 2.5 Understanding WSDL.- 2.6 Understanding UDDI.- 2.7 Summary.- 3 The Architecture Perspective.- 3.1 The Architect's View.- 3.2 Introduction to Web Services Architectures.- 3.3 Web Services Principles and Patterns.- 3.4 Architectural Decisions.- 3.5 Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs).- 3.6 Gaps and Countermeasures.- 3.7 Frequently Asked Questions.- 3.8 Summary.- 4 The Development Perspective.- 4.1 A Developer's View.- 4.2 Introduction to Developing Web Services in Java.- 4.3 Preparing the Sample Application.- 4.4 Building rpc/encoded Services from Java.- 4.5 Building Web Service Clients.- 4.6 Building rpc/encoded Services from WSDL.- 4.7 Programmatic Access to WSDL.- 4.8 Using WS-Inspection to Build Service Indices.- 4.9 Using UDDI.- 4.10 Using Other Web Services Bindings.- 4.11 Creating a document/literal Service from WSDL.- 4.12 Creating a document/literal Service Client.- 4.13 Orchestrating Web Services.- 4.14 Using Attachments with SOAP.- 4.15 Using SOAP Headers.- 4.16 Exporting the Completed Sample.- 4.17 Summary.- 5 The Operational Perspective.- 5.1 The System Administrator's View.- 5.2 System Architectures for Web Services Solutions.- 5.3 Deploying Web Services.- 5.4 Securing a Web Services Implementation.- 5.5 The Web Services Gateway.- 5.6 Summary.- 6 The Engagement Perspective.- 6.1 The Project Manager's View.- 6.2 Planning a Web ServicesDevelopment Project.- 6.3 Lessons Learned and Design Advice.- 6.4 Summary.- 7 The Future Perspective.- 7.1 An Optimistic and a Pessimistic View.- 7.2 Emerging Specifications.- 7.3 Web Services and Grid Computing.- 7.4 A Quick Look at the Semantic Web.- 7.5 Concluding Thoughts.- A Creating the Sample Applications.- A.1 Building the PremierQuotes Policy System.- A.1.1 Configuring a Cloudscape Environment.- A.1.2 Creating a New Database.- A.1.3 Creating the Project Structures in WebSphere Studio.- A.1.4 EJB-RDBMS Mapping Approaches.- A.1.5 Creating the Database Schema.- A.1.6 Generating Entity EJBs from the Database Schema.- A.1.7 Creating a WebSphere Server to Deploy the Application.- A.1.8 Binding the EJBs to the New Data Source.- A.1.9 Populating the Database with Sample Data.- A.1.10 Data for PremierQuotes Cloudscape Database.- A.2 Updating the PremierQuotes Policy System.- A.2.1 Completing the Entity EJB Implementations.- A.2.2 Creating the Session EJB.- A.2.3 Creating Value Objects to Return from the Session Bean.- A.2.4 Inserting the Business Logic.- A.2.5 Creating a Local EJB Reference to the Address Entity.- A.2.6 Deploying the Application.- A.2.7 Testing the New PremierQuotes Policy System.- A.3 Building the DirtCheap Policy System.- A.3.1 Creating the New Database.- A.3.2 Creating the Project Structure in WebSphere Studio.- A.3.3 Copying a Database Schema.- A.3.4 Defming a New JDBC Data Source.- A.3.5 Deploying the New Enterprise Application.- A.3.6 Populating the Database with Sample Data.- A.3.7 Data for DirtCheap Insurance Cloudscape Database.- A.4 Updating the DirtCheap Policy System.- A.4.1 Building JDBC Wrappers.- A.4.2 Defming a JDBC Resource Reference.- A.4.3 Testing the New DirtCheap Insurance Policy System.- A.5 Configuring the WebSphere SDK for Web Services.- A.5.1 Setting up the Command Line Environment.- A.5.2 Updating the Server Classpath.- A.5.3 Changing the Default Classloading Behavior.- A.5.4 Resolving Problems with the Default UDDI Data Source.- A.5.5 Changing Java 2 Security Privileges for Libraries.- A.5.6 Configuring the Application Server.- A.5.7 Installing the Universal Test Client.- A.5.8 Script to Remove JDBC Providers.- B Java to XML Mapping Reference.- B.1 Apache SOAP 2.3 Mappings.- B.2 JAX-RPC Mappings.- C Appendix C#.- C.1 Overview to Building.NET Web Service Clients.- C.2 Developing rpc/encoded Clients in C#.- C.3 Developing document/literal Clients in C#.- Sources of Information.- References.- Trademarks.- Copyright Notices.