Securing Web Services with WS-Security: Demystifying WS-Security, WS-Policy, SAML, XML Signature, and XML Encryption

Product DescriptionYou know how to build Web service applications using XML, SOAP, and WSDL, but can you ensure that those applications are secure? Standards development groups such as OASIS and W3C have released several specifications designed to provide security – but how do you combine them in working applications? “Securing Web Services [...]

Service Oriented Architecture Demystified: A pragmatic approach to SOA for the IT executive

Product DescriptionThe authors of this definitive book on SOA debunk the myths and demonstrate through examples from different vertical industries how a crawl, walk, run approach to deployment of SOA in an IT environment can lead to a successful return on investment.
One popular argument states that SOA is not a technology, but that it stands [...]

Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices

Product DescriptionThis book spells out guidelines and strategies for successfully using ServiceOriented Architecture (SOA) in large-scale projects. SOA represents the latestparadigm in distributed computing and middleware development. However,SOA is not a revolution, but rather an evolution in software architecture. SOAis a collection of best practice software construction principles accompanied byproven methodologies in development and project [...]

Model SOA Business Processes Using Bpmn

Modeling business processes for SOA and developing end-to-end IT support has become one of the top IT priorities. The SOA approach is based on services and on processes. Processes are focused on composition of services and in that sense services become process activities.

Experience has shown that the implementation and optimization of processes are the most [...]

Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL: From Business Process Modeling to Orchestration and Service Oriented Architecture

Product DescriptionIn Detail Modeling business processes for SOA and developing end-to-end IT support has become one of the top IT priorities. The SOA approach is based on services and on processes. Processes are focused on composition of services and in that sense services become process activities. Experience has shown that the implementation and [...]