Table Of ContentSummary of Contents
Foreword: Web Services Business Strategies and Architectures 1
Chapter 1: Return On Investment (ROI) and Web Services 9
Chapter 2: Selling Web Services 25
Chapter 3: Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Web Services 39
Chapter 4: Business To Business Integration (B2Bi) and Web Services 57
Chapter 5: Integration Brokers and Web Services 71
Chapter 6: ERP and Web Services The Third Wave 85
Chapter 7: E-Logistics Processes Integration Using Web Services 101
Chapter 8: UDDI-based Electronic Marketplaces 117
Chapter 9: Web Services and the Real Estate Industry 143
Chapter 10: Business Process Standards For Web Services 157
Chapter 11: Web Services and Straight Through Processing (STP) 175
Chapter 12: Web Service Intermediaries 201
Chapter 13: An Introduction To ebXML 221
Chapter 14: Web Services Architectures 237
Chapter 15: .NET and J2EE, a Comparison 257
Chapter 16: Web Services and Application Frameworks (.NET and J2EE) 273
Chapter 17: Web Services Security 291
Chapter 18: Network Security for Web Services 305
Chapter 19: Remote References and XML Web Services 319
Index 333
Web Services Business Strategies
and Architectures
Kapil Apshankar
HenryChang
Mike Clark
Eduardo B. Fernandez
Peter Fletcher
Whitney Hankison
J. Je ffrey Hanson
Romin Irani
Kunal Mittal
Judith M. Myerson
David O'Riordan
Dimple Sadhwani
Gunjan Samtani
Bilal Siddiqui
J0rgen Thelin
Mark Waterhouse
Chanoch Wiggers
Liang-Jie Zhang
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Contributing Authors Kapil Apshankar
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Mike Clark Romin Irani
Henry Chang Andrew Krowczk
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Kunal Mittal Pip Wonson
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About the Authors
Kapil Apshankar
Kapil has three years experience in knowledge management, il8n, LIOn, and manufacturing
domains. He works as a team leader for a major software corporation in India. Currently he is
working with Web Services in all their forms to devise ways and means to take this nascent
technology to its limits.
His other interests include Linux, networking, and distributed computing. When not dabbling
with his computer, he can be seen playing the harmonica or drawing pencil portraits. Kapil
can be reached at [email protected].
Mike Clark
Mike is currently working solely on Research and Development around Web Services and
ASP.NET technology. He is solely responsible for www.salcentral.com, the world's first Web
Services brokerage along with www.webservicebuy.com, www.uddiregistrar.com and a suite
of Web Services available at www.soapengine.com. All his spare time is taken up with his
wife and two kids, though it's seldom enough to stop the feeling of guilt for the time spent
"playing in the attic" as the kids call it.
You can contact Mike Clark at [email protected].
Henry Chang
Dr. Henry Chang is a research manager of B2B service infrastructure in the IBM Watson
Research Center. He has developed IBM's B2B extranet web portal. He is now leading
research in the areas of web business services integration, business process solution
management, and on-demand e-utility hosting infrastructure.
Eduardo B. Fernandez
Eduardo B. Fernandez (Eduardo Fernandez-Buglioni) is a professor in the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. He
has published numerous papers on authorization models, object-oriented analysis and design,
and fault-tolerant systems. He has written three books on these subjects. He has lectured all
over the world at both academic and industrial meetings. He has created and taught several
graduate and undergraduate courses and industrial tutorials. His current interests include
object-oriented design and Internet security. He holds a MS degree in Electrical Engineering
from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA. He is a Senior
Member of the IEEE, and a Member of ACM. He is an active consultant for industry,
including assignments with IBM, Allied Signal, Motorola, Harris, Lucent, and others. More
details can be found at http://www.cse.fau.edu/-ed.
Peter Fletcher
Peter Fletcher is Managing Editor of Web Services Architect
(http://www.webservicesarchitect.com/). Previously he developed web-based applications for
the publishing group Peer Information, including content management and e-commerce
systems. He holds a Masters degree in Cognitive Science.
Whitney Hankison
Whitney is a Systems Analyst with the County of Santa Barbara, California, USA. She has co
authored Professional Windows DNA, and Professional VB .NET 1st and 2nd editions with Wrox
Press. She can be reached at [email protected].
J. Jeffrey Hanson
Jeff Hanson has more than 18 years of experience in the software industry, including working
as Senior Engineer for the Windows OpenDoc port and Lead Architect for the Route 66
framework at Novell. He is currently Chief Architect for Zareus, Inc., which specializes in
providing Web Service frameworks and platforms for J2EE-based installations. Jeff has also
authored numerous articles.
Romin Irani
Romin Irani is a Senior Software Engineer at InSync Information Systems, Inc. in Fremont,
California. His primary job focus is on utilizing Web Services Technologies to help ease
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Prior to that, he was the team leader on aj2EE
based eProcurement Marketplace. Romin has 7 years of professional experience with the last
4 years completely focused aroundj2EE. Romin has contributed several articles in the field of
Web Services and has been a co-author of the following books: AXIS: The Next Generation of
java SOAP, Professional]ava Web Services, and Beginning]SP Web Development, all published by
Wrox Press.
Kunal Mittal
Kunal Mittal (kunal@ kunalmittal.com) is a Technical Architect at Infosys Ltd, Pune, India
specializing in Service Based Architectures usingjava-based Web Services. Kunal would like
to thank Doron Sherman, CTO, Collaxa and Dave Shaffer, Principal Consultant, Collaxa for
their contributions to the case study presented in this paper (http://www.collaxa.com/).
Judith M. Myerson
Judith M. Myerson is a Systems Engineer/ Architect with a Master's Degree in Engineering. A
noted columnist and writer with over 150 articles/reports published, she is the editor of
Enterprise Systems Integration, Z'd Edition, and the author of The Complete Book ofM iddleware, and
articles in New Directions in Internet Management - all by Auerbach Publishers. In addition to
Web Services, her area of interest covers enterprise-wide systems, databases, enabling
technologies, application development, network management, distributed systems,
component-based technologies, and project management among others. She can be reached at
jmyerson@ bellatlantic.net.
David 0' Riordan
David O'Riordan ([email protected]) is co-founder and Chief Architect at Bind Systems
(http://www.bindsys.com/) who provide business process software products based on Web
Services standards. He has 15 years experience of designing enterprise software systems at
companies such as Siemens and IONA Technologies. Before founding Bind Systems in 2000,
he was the product architect of the Java CORBA product line at IONA Technologies.
Dimple Sadhwani
Dimple Sadhwani is Senior Software Engineer at Island ECN based in New York. She has
many years of experience working for financial and telecommunication companies on large
scale trading systems, CRM applications, Internet/Intranet portals, and client/server
applications. She is co-author of the book B2B Integration - A practical guide to collaborative e
commerce, Imperial College Press. She has also authored several articles in the field of Web
Services. Her e-mail address is dsadhwani@ island.com.
Gunjan Samtani
Gunj an Samtani is Divisional Vice President, Information Technology at UBS PaineW ebber,
one of the world's leading financial services firms. He has several years of experience in the
management, design, architecture, and implementation of large-scale EAI and B2B integration
projects. He is the primary author of B2B Integration - A practical guide to collaborative e
commerce, Imperial College Press. He has presented research papers at several national and
international conferences and is the author of more than 100 articles and research publications
in the field of finance and technology. His e-mail address is [email protected].
Bilal Siddiqui
Bilal Siddiqui is an Electronics Engineer, an XML consultant, and the co-founder of W axSys,
a company focused on simplifying e-Business. After graduating in Electronics Engineering
from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, in 1995, he began designing
software solutions for industrial control systems. Later he turned to XML and used his
experience programming in C++ to build Web- and W AP-based XML processing tools,
server-side parsing solutions, and service applications. He is a technology evangelist and a
frequently published technical author.
Jergen Thelin
j0rgen Thelin is the Chief Architect at Cape Clear Software Inc. where he is responsible for
the overall technical direction of the company's flagship Cape Connect Web Services
Integration Platform product. Previously, he has worked on the development of a number of
middleware products and major line-of-business software projects for blue-chip companies
such as ICL, Reuters,J.P.Morgan, and BSkyB before joining Orbware to develop an
enterprise server middleware product. He holds a Computing Science Honours degree from
Stirling University, Scotland, and an MBA from Warwick Business School, England. He has
been using the Java programming language since early 1996, and is a Sun CertifiedJava
Programmer, Developer, and Architect.
Mark Waterhouse
Mark Waterhouse has been a technical editor for a little over two years. Having initially
worked for Wrox Press, he moved to Teet where since September 2001 he has edited the Web
Services Architect web site (http://www.webservicesarchitect.com/) and associated papers.
Before working, Mark was a volunteer advisor for the Citizen's Advice Bureau, and has
studied Philosophy (BA) and Cognitive Science (MSc).
Chanoch Wiggers
Chanoch is a Software Developer at Kiwi Media Design having left Wrox Press from his
position as Editor. In addition to having been the architect of Professionaljava SOAP and
Professional]ava Web Services, he has written for a number of articles and books published by
Wrox Press and the Web Services Architect web site. You can contact him at
chanochwiggers@ hotmail.com.
Liang-Jie Zhang
Dr. Liang:Jie Zhang is a Research Staff Member at IBM's T J. Watson Research Center, where
he has been actively working on B2B integration using Web Services. He is the lead author of
Business Explorer for Web Services (BE4WS). His other research interests include Web
Services-oriented business process outsourcing technologies and broadband-media commerce.
He chaired the special session on Web Services at IC2002.
