As a basis for professional development, a general architecture and a taxonomy for web related standards and techniques are presented in this book. Integration issues and the needed technologies are strongly emphasized and special attention is paid to metadata, process and organizational management. Main commercial approaches and products such as Microsoft .Net, CORBA, EJB are also explained. The models and architectures discussed are illustrated with three accompanying real-world examples: order entry management, supply chain management, and mass customization.
Stefan Jablonski
.NET COM CORBA J2EE ODBC SOAP WSDL XML application architecture application server enterprise java beans middleware web web engineering web services
From the reviews:
"The authors have developed a conceptual framework that is based on drawing a clear line between the so-called Web application architectures and Web platform architectures. I find this quite adequate, since it helps make a distinction between concepts … . All in all, this is an interesting book, one that was clearly necessary to shed a little light on the plethora of acronyms, and the relationships among them, that a typical Web engineer must face." (Rafael Corchuelo, Computing Reviews, February, 2005)