Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA (Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas ERL)

As Web services are becoming a larger part of mainstream SOA development

environments, architects and developers are increasingly required to take

ownership of service contract design. In order to make this transition, they

require expert guidance to truly understand the WSDL and XML Schema

languages and apply these technologies to solve real-world problems.

This book provides an end-to-end tutorial for building service contracts using

WSDL, XML Schema (and optionally WS-Policy) within the context of SOA.

It contains detailed coverage of these languages, including expert insights, best

practices, and optimization techniques. The expert author team demonstrates

how to accomplish the contract-first process using common development

platforms from major SOA vendors (such as those provided by IBM,

Microsoft, Sun, and BEA) and provide coverage of additional, non-technical

documents that are often required to supplement the technical Web service

contract (for example, Service Level Agreements).