Web Services: A Java Developer's Guide Using e-Speak (With CD-ROM)

Master HP's fast, practical, secure technology for delivering advanced Internet-based Web services.

• Explains service-centric computing, competitive landscape, and the first Internet service technology—e-Speak
• Demonstrates how to deliver powerful Web services with HP's Java-based e-Speak platform
• Includes fully annotated Java code examples for every e-Speak component
• Contains two detailed case studies: supply chain management and location-based mobile services

Make the Web work for you—with HP's open, Java, and XML-based software platform for creating and delivering Web services. Web Services: A Java Developer's Guide Using E-Speak is one of the first books focusing on service-centric computing. It is also the complete, authoritative guide to e-Speak technology. Written by two HP e-Speak experts, it covers all aspects of the service life cycle, while illuminating the broader technical and business issues associated with Internet service-based economies.

• Web services: what they are, and how they can solve business problems
• Enabling Internet-based services to find each other and interact programmatically, wherever they are—securely
• E-Speak service development, deployment, and discovery
• Comparative survey of competitive initiatives and technologies such as CORBA, J2EE, ebXML, UDDI, and .NET
• Key concepts: client and service interactions, vocabularies, contracts, service composition; the multicore environment; persistence, events, messages, and HP's "E-Services Village" service registry
• E-Speak's transformation into HP Web Servicstandards-based, highly interoperable platform for Internet service delivery

Web Services: A Java Developer's Guide Using E-Speak contains Java code examples throughout. It also includes comprehensive case studies in supply chain management and location-based mobile services. Whatever Internet services you intend to deploy, this book is your complete blueprint for getting the job done.

CD-ROM INCLUDED

The accompanying CD-ROM contains the e-Speak software to get developers started, plus working code examples, tools, and the databases used in the book.