Foreword
Introduction 1
Pt. 1 Service-Oriented Architecture Overview 3
Ch. 1 A Business Trip in the Not-Too-Distant Future 5
Ch. 2 Information Technology Used in This Trip 9
Ch. 3 Service-Oriented Architectures and Web-Services 17
Ch. 4 Forces Affecting the Adoption of Web Services and Other Integration Techniques 37
Ch. 5 Growing Impact of Web Services 61
Ch. 6 Service-Oriented Architectures and Beliefs about Enterprise Architectures 75
Ch. 7 Starting to Adopt a Service-Oriented Architecture 87
Pt. II Managing Change Need for a Service-Oriented Architecture 93
Ch. 8 Change Will Happen 96
Ch. 9 Tips for Managing Change Issues during Development 119
Pt. III Creating Service-Oriented Architectures 125
Ch. 10 Architectures at Each Stage of Adoption for Web Services 127
Ch. 11 Architectural Options 157
Ch. 12 Middle-Tier Architecture 167
Ch. 13 Revisiting the Business Trip in the Not-Too-Distant Future 185
Pt. IV Compendium of Software Technology for Service-Oriented Architectures 189
Ch. 14 Additional Specification Details 191
Ch. 15 Quick Reference Guide 219
Index 233