Book Review of Web Services in the Enterprise: Concepts, Standards, Solutions, and Management

摘要

For those who have an academic background of distributed systems and management, upon acquainting oneself with Web services two questions are usually raised: (1) What is the difference between Web services and middleware like CORBA? (2) What makes Web services and their management so unique, e.g., what makes it different from common Web applications such as Web server applications? The answers to these questions can be found in the book written by Akhil Sahai and Sven Graupner. This book not only covers concepts and architectures related to Web services and their management, but also provides details on the relationship between Web services and middleware as well as the relationship among web services management, network management, application management, enterprise management and business management.