Newletter Sign Up
Posts on the
Design Decomposition Blog
Iridium Satellite Collision in Space
You might have seen the recent news reports about the collision between U.S. and Russian communication satellites. The U.S. satellite was one of the Iridium satellites. What wasn’t reported and you probably don’t know is that an object database management system (ODBMS) is an important part of the Iridium system. Even though ODBMSs are a [...]
February 13, 2009
(The Acronym) SOA is (Perhaps) Dead (at Some Companies); Long Live Services
I am now also posting on the Cutter Blog. My initial posting is (The Acronym) SOA is (Perhaps) Dead (at Some Companies); Long Live Services. It is a response to Anne Thomas Manes’ SOA is Dead; Long Live Services on her blog at the Burton Group.
January 9, 2009
Atomicity
The typical definition of an atomic task or process is one that cannot be decomposed further. This is vague and subject to interpretation. The Decomposition Matrix on this site uses a specific definition: A task (for business process diagrams) or a process (for data flow diagrams) is atomic if every input relates to every output [...]
December 3, 2008
Well-Formed Business Process Diagrams
My last posting referenced the criteria for a well-formed business process diagram mentioned in Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. I am going to expand on their criteria to create a more comprehensive definition of a well-formed business process diagram. To start, here are three criteria from [...]
November 18, 2008
Recent Business Process Modeling Books
I recently received two new books on business process modeling. Both books looked interesting because they had great titles. As it turns out, one book is great and the other not so good. The not so good book is Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. There are [...]
October 9, 2008
The Design Decomposition Blog
is written by Doug Barry.

Web Services make up a connection technology. It is a way to connect services together into a service-oriented architecture. Primary elements of Web Services are:

Of course, there is more to Web Services. The articles listed below provide an overview.

New articles will be added regularly. If you would like to be notified when new articles are available, add your name to our mail list.

If you are interested in a listing of Web Services products, click here.

Finally, in addition to the articles listed below, be sure to check out the other articles that appear on this site. They cover technologies that can be used in a service-oriented architecture.

Read more free articles on this site

There are nearly 400 pages of articles on this site with over 130 pages on Web services and service-oriented architecture.

Search this site for more articles

Custom Search

Browse this site for more articles

Click on the topics below to browse the articles on this site. You can see more detail by clicking on the arrows. This highlights the location of the current article: Web Services articles.

Related recent articles from Google News

Web Connectivity a Bigger Deal for HDTV Than 3D
PC World
And that's why 3D TV will take a back seat to Web services in the HDTV features war. Televisions with built-in Internet connections, typically an Ethernet ...
and more »
11 Mar 2010 at 4:59pm
Newtek Business Services Reports Full Year 2009 Financial Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Web Services: Customized web design and development services. -- Data Backup, Storage and Retrieval: Fast, secure, off-site data backup, ...
and more »
10 Mar 2010 at 2:46pm
Ourexam 310-231 Sun Certified Developer for Java Web Services 5
BigNews.biz (press release)
310-231 exam is known as Sun Certified Developer for Java Web Services 5, which is a hot exam of SUN certification. Before you want to take the exam, ...

11 Mar 2010 at 10:04pm
Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare Ante Up for Location-Based Services
eWeek
... sharing in its users' News Feeds, a move that could automatically make the social network the dominant platform for location-based Web services. ...
and more »
10 Mar 2010 at 10:17am
Chyron Reports Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009
PR Newswire (press release)
We increased our investment in R&D by 13% for the year and focused our activities on building Axis, our web-services solution based upon the Cloud Computing ...
and more »
11 Mar 2010 at 7:03am
More related news on: "Web services"

Related books at Amazon.com

Java Web Services: Up and Running
Java Web Services: Up and Running
by Martin Kalin
Average Customer Review: 4 stars based on 14 reviews.
Customer Review: I did learn a lot which is all that you can ask for. The book is thin - less than 300 pages, and the author writes in a good conversational style. It is a good tutorial but it probably does not make a good reference as it does not go into too much detail in some places. For example it does not explain how to create a handler when it...
Restful Web Services
Restful Web Services
by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby, David Heinemeier Hansson
Average Customer Review: 4.5 stars based on 44 reviews.
Customer Review: RESTful Web Services is one of the best books I have recently read. Before starting reading I have attended a few presentations on REST and I naively thought I became quite familiar with it. Now I can see how ignorant I was about it... This book really helped me to deeply understand what REST is all about and why it is becoming so p...
RESTful Web Services Cookbook: Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity
RESTful Web Services Cookbook: Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity
by Subbu Allamaraju
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Publication Date: March 2010
RESTful .NET: Build and Consume RESTful Web Services with .NET 3.5
RESTful .NET: Build and Consume RESTful Web Services with .NET 3.5
by Jon Flanders
Average Customer Review: 4.5 stars based on 9 reviews.
Customer Review: There are two things I really liked about Flanders' book: (1) It has a gradual progression from concept to implementation that is both easy to read and very structured. It made the whole book very valuable. The initial section on REST is concise and either enlightening or revision, depending on what you already know. The transition t...
Understanding Web Services: XML, WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI
Understanding Web Services: XML, WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI
by Eric Newcomer
Average Customer Review: 3.5 stars based on 26 reviews.
Customer Review: I run across this book and I enjoyed reading it I found it to be very detailed and it offers the latest technologies in Web services
More related books: Search Amazon.com for Web services