Description

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- A complete walk-through of building full life-cycle Web services covering the architecture, models, designs, and implementation. - Presents a technology-agnostic approach that focuses on building applications around established open standards. - Addresses issues not found anywhere else, such as security, technology standards efforts, and vendor strategies around Web services. - Plenty of examples through illustrations and code help the reader not only to understand Web services, but to start implementing them right away. - A supporting Website (www.fundamentalwebservices.com) will host live.

About the Author

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William L. Oellerman, Jr. is the chief architect for Ericsson's eBusiness Solution Center. He has more than nine years of experience in the IT industry in both a corporate and consulting capacity. He has worked extensively with XML- and web-based applications in enterprise settings, including production applications for integration and e-commerce at Fortune 500 companies such as American Greetings, Citigroup, Ericsson, and Zale Corporation. Having grown up professionally with the Internet and having earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Dallas, William has a balanced background that makes him well-suited to recognize the value of software engineering while embracing the potential of the Web. This background and his passion for problem solving and delivering solutions to address real issues compelled him to make the web services paradigm his primary focus.