"Using today's new Web services platform, you can build services that are secure, reliable, efficient at handling transactions, and well suited to your evolving service-oriented architecture. What's more, you can do all that without compromising the simplicity or interoperability that made Web services so attractive. Now, for the first time, the experts who helped define and architect this platform show you exactly how to make the most of it.

   " Unlike other books, Web Services Platform Architecture covers the entire platform. The authors illuminate every specification that's ready for practical use, covering messaging, metadata, security, discovery, quality of service, business-process modeling and more.

    Drawing on realistic examples and case studies, they present a powerfully coherent view of how all these specifications fit together - and how to combine them to solve real-world problems.

1 Service-oriented architectures
2 Background
3 Web services : a realization of SOA
4 SOAP
5 Web services addressing
6 Web services description language (WSDL)
7 Web services policy
8 Universal description, discovery, and integration (UDDI)
9 Web services metadata exchange
10 Reliable messaging

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