XSLT, 2nd Edition

After years of anticipation and delay, the W3C finally released the XSLT 2.0 standard in January 2007. The revised edition of this classic book offers practical, real-world examples that demonstrate how you can apply XSLT stylesheets to XML data using either the new specification, or the older XSLT 1.0 standard. XSLT is a critical language for converting XML documents into other formats, such as HTML code or a PDF file. With XSLT, you get a thorough understanding of XSLT and XPath and their relationship to other web standards, along with recommendations for a honed toolkit in an open platform-neutral, standards-based environment. This book: Covers the XSLT basics, including simple stylesheets and methods for setting up transformation engines Walks you through the many parts of XSLT, particularly XSLT's template-based approach to transformations Applies both XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 solutions to the same problems, helping you decide which version of XSLT is more appropriate for your project Includes profuse examples that complement both the tutorial and the reference material

The new edition of XSLT has been updated thoroughly to explain XSLT 2.0's many dependencies, notably XML Schema and XPath 2.0. Want to find out how the 2.0 specification improves on the old? This book will explain.

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.NET Web Services: Architecture and Implementation (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

.NET Web Services is the authoritative guide to designing and architecting better Web services using Microsoft technologies. Written by Keith Ballinger, a Program Manager for XML Web Services at Microsoft, this book explains what Web services are, why they exist, and how they work in .NET. Readers will gain a thorough understanding of the technologies that allows them to take full advantage of .NET.

The book opens with an introduction to Web services and Web services standards. It then explores .NET technologies and examines how the .NET Framework gives developers the tools they need to build Web service applications. The core of the book focuses on the key specifications that make up the Web services architecture, from HTTP to SOAP to WS-Security. .NET Web Services concludes with the author's expert advice on architecting and designing Web service applications.

Topics covered include:

• The features and pitfalls of Web services
• Web services standards
• Creating Web Services with ASP.NET
• Creating Web service clients
• XML serialization with .NET
• Extending Web services
• Transport protocols for Web services
• XML and XML Schemas
• SOAP
• Describing Web services
• Discovering Web services
• Messaging with Web services
• Securing Web services
• Advanced messaging

Best practices are illustrated throughout with full working examples as well as code samples using C# and ASP.NET Web services. A companion Web site at www.keithba.net includes all sample code from the book.

Books in the Microsoft .NET Development Series are written and reviewed by the principal authorities and pioneering developers of the Microsoft .NET technologies, including the Microsoft .NET development team and DevelopMentor. Books in the Microsoft .NET Development Series focus on the design, architecture, and implementation of the Microsoft .NET initiative to empower developers and students everywhere with the knowledge they need to thrive in the Microsoft .NET revolution.

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Understanding Web Services: XML, WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI (Independent Technology Guides)

Web services, the new way of stitching data and processing resources together to form elaborate, distributed applications, aren't like other software systems. They differ even from other architectures for distributed applications. In his fantastic Understanding Web Services, Eric Newcomer helps his readers figure out what Web services are all about. This book is better than any other book out there in helping readers come to grips with the terms, technologies, behaviors, and design requirements that define the Web services universe. It's remarkably light on code--Newcomer's logic appears to be that you should dig into the details of implementation only after you thoroughly understand the design concepts--and emphasizes definition and exposition of SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, and ebXML.

Newcomer's work looks and reads almost like a notebook, with succinct statements in the margin (for instance, "SOAP processors first have to check the mustUnderstand attribute, if any"), adjacent to paragraphs that go into greater depth. He's careful to call attention to differences among the relevant standards documents, and points out differences among implementations. Graphical learners may wish for more conceptual diagrams, as there aren't a lot of them here. Newcomer's prose is brilliant, though, and it's pretty easy to determine what he means. Perhaps best of all, Newcomer isn't cheap with his opinions and forecasts. It's helpful to read his informed feelings and predictions. --David Wall

Topics covered: The specifications, implementations, and popular trends that define the Web services movement. Conceptual coverage of Extensible Markup Language (XML), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) protocol fills these pages. Emphasis is on how it all works rather than on how to program for it.

Book Description
Web services enable the new generation of Internet-based applications. These services support application-to-application Internet communication-that is, applications at different network locations can be integrated to function as if they were part of a single, large software system. Examples of applications made possible by Web services include automated business transactions and direct (nonbrowser) desktop and handheld device access to reservations, stock trading, and order-tracking systems.

Several key standards have emerged that together form the foundation for Web services: XML (Extensible Markup Language), WSDL (Web Services Definition Language), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration). In addition, ebXML (Electronic Business XML) has been specified to facilitate automated business process integration among trading partners.

This book introduces the main ideas and concepts behind core and extended Web services' technologies and provides developers with a primer for each of the major technologies that have emerged in this space. In addition, Understanding Web Services summarizes the major architectural approaches to Web services, examines the role of Web services within the .NET and J2EE communities, and provides information about major product offerings from BEA, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, IONA, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and others.

Key topics include:

XML facilities for structuring and serializing data How WSDL maps services onto communication protocols and transports WSDL support for RPC-orientedand document-oriented interactions SOAP's required and optional elements Message processing and the role of intermediaries in SOAP

UDDI data formats and APIs

How ebXML offers an alternative to Web services that supports reliable messaging, security, and trading-partner negotiations

With Understanding Web Services, you will be well informed and well positioned to participate in this vast, emerging marketplace.

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Web Services Platform Architecture: SOAP, WSDL, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-BPEL, WS-Reliable Messaging, and More

Using today's new Web services platform, you can build services that are secure, reliable, efficient at handling transactions, and well suited to your evolving service-oriented architecture. What's more, you can do all that without compromising the simplicity or interoperability that made Web services so attractive. Now, for the first time, the experts who helped define and architect this platform show you exactly how to make the most of it.

Unlike other books, Web Services Platform Architecture covers the entire platform. The authors illuminate every specification that's ready for practical use, covering messaging, metadata, security, discovery, quality of service, business-process modeling, and more. Drawing on realistic examples and case studies, they present a powerfully coherent view of how all these specifications fit together—and how to combine them to solve real-world problems.

· Service orientation: Clarifying the business and technical value propositions

· Web services messaging framework: Using SOAP and WS-Addressing to deliver Web services messages

· WSDL: Documenting messages and supporting diverse message interactions

· WS-Policy: Building services that specify their requirements and capabilities, and how to interface with them

· UDDI: Aggregating metadata and making it easily available

· WS-MetadataExchange: Bootstrapping efficient, customized communication between Web services

· WS-Reliable Messaging: Ensuring message delivery across unreliable networks

· Transactions: Defining reliable interactions with WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction, and WS-BusinessActivity

· Security: Understanding the roles of WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, and WS-Federation

· BPEL: Modeling and executing business processes as service compositions

Web Services Platform Architecture gives you an insider's view of the platform that will change the way you deliver applications. Whether you're an architect, developer, technical manager, or consultant, you'll find it indispensable.

Sanjiva Weerawarana, research staff member for the component systems group at IBM Research, helps define and coordinate IBM's Web services technical strategy and activities. A member of the Apache Software Foundation, he contributed to many specifications including the SOAP 1.1 and WSDL 1.1 specifications and built their first implementations. Francisco Curbera, IBM research staff member and component systems group manager, coauthored BPEL4WS, WS-Addressing, and other specifications. He represents IBM on the BPEL and Web Services Addressing working groups. Frank Leymann directs the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems at the University of Stuttgart. As an IBM distinguished engineer, he helped architect IBM's middleware stack and define IBM's On Demand Computing strategy. IBM Fellow Tony Storey has helped lead the development of many of IBM's middleware, Web services, and grid computing products. IBM Fellow Donald F. Ferguson is chief architect and technical lead for IBM Software Group, and chairs IBM's SWG Architecture Board.

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Web Services Architecture and Its Specifications Essentials

The web is a marvelous way to exchange information. But it is very visually oriented. You browse to a site and read what you find. Alternatively you can download a filek, but this file is dependent on what the originator thinks you need.

XML is of course the answer. XML allows the sender and receiver of information to use the existing packet switching web communication channels and the existing servers to handle the transmission of data between machines.

XML is the core structure of a group of messaging commands. This combines with the SOAP protocol to define how messages are to be formatted using XML formats. Combining XML with SOAP and other standards results in the general concept of Web Services.

This book discusses the complete set of standards that make up web services. It is a reference format book, not a tutorial. It is, as the title says, on the architecture and specifications.

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Web Services Business Objects and Component Models

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Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)

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"The discussion on the common beliefs about enterprise architectures and how they relate to Web services is a gem and worth the price of the book. Similarly insightful chapters cover the impact of Web services on the enterprise, adoption steps and change management issues in implementing Web services projects. This a great book that every manager contemplating a Web services project should read." - Toufic Boubez, Ph.D., Author of "Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI"

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"The discussion on the common beliefs about enterprise architectures and how they relate to Web services is a gem and worth the price of the book. Similarly insightful chapters cover the impact of Web services on the enterprise, adoption steps and change management issues in implementing Web services projects. This a great book that every manager contemplating a Web services project should read." - Toufic Boubez, Ph.D., Author of "Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI"

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Understanding SOA with Web Services

· Why SOA has emerged as the dominant approach to enterprise integration

· How and why Web services provide the ideal foundation for SOA

· Underlying concepts shared by all SOAs: governance, service contracts, Web services platforms, service-oriented development, and more

· Implementing service-level communications, discovery, security, data handling, transaction management, and system management

· Using SOA to deliver application interoperability, multichannel client access, and business process management

· Practical tutorials on WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-AtomicTransactions, WS-Composite Application Framework, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, and WS-BPEL

Whether you're an architect, developer, or IT manager, Understanding SOA with Web Services will help you get SOA right—and achieve both the business and technical goals you've set for it.

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Loosely Coupled: The Missing Pieces of Web Services

This is a book of concepts and context that clearly explains what web services are and are not. If you are seeking a technical book with how to approaches this is not it. It is also not a book about architecture or low-level technical details.

I like the way Mr. Kaye divides the book into intended audiences, and the clarity he brings to a topic that is still confuses because of hype, misconception and competing vendor definitions that not surprisingly are slanted towards products.

Understanding how this book is structured and for whom each part is intended will give insight into the content and why this book is an invaluable aid to looking at web services in a clear perspective:

- all readers will benefit from reading the first ten chapters, which cover perspectives (history, definitions, critical pieces that make up web services), and concepts (history of integration, relationships between web services and objects and service oriented architectures, and other factors). Some of this material is either basic or will not be of interest and can be safely skipped. It does cover the landscape of foundation material in a thorough, highly readable manner.

- developers and managers will benefit from technologies (chapters 11-15), which cover the following factors as they specifically relate to web services: transactions, security, and deployment options. This material is an aggregation of both the author's wide and extensive industry experience, and the knowledge and experience of his clients and industry contacts. I consider these chapters to be tried and true advice from the trenches.

- managers and executives are the target audience of strategies, which are covered in five on-the-mark chapters that address project approaches, timing, and [importantly] service level agreements. External services are also covered in this part of the book. The final part of the book is an appendix that is a strategic checklist that is so thorough and comprehensive that it can be used to both scope the complexity of a web services project and as a basis for a work breakdown structure for the project itself.

From the points of view of perspective, concept, and real world advice this is one of the best resources I've discovered on web services. Added value comes from the discussions board and supporting material on the author's website (ASIN B0000A2MOK).

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Great Web Architecture - IDG Books

While some books on general Web site design focus on particular technologies and others on one-size-fits-all rules, Great Web Architecture offers a fascinating examination of the structural designs of some of the Web's best sites and how they solve key design challenges. Author and graphic designer Clay Andres has created a highly engaging and truly instructive guide.

Andres's technique is simple: identify the major decision points in site design and examine closely those sites that overcome particular obstacles or illustrate concepts. He highlights sites from Starbucks, Purina, The Getty Center, Salon Magazine, Specialized, and many others--all excellent case studies. The pages of this book are packed with small format screen shots and step-by-step analysis of how the site in question is constructed and why. These examinations are supplemented with a number of interviews with the site developers to add a first-hand perspective.

This book is notable not only for its fine selection of sites but also for its practical advice. For example, Andres illustrates the benefits of cascading style sheets (CSS) but also explains frankly why they are not as widely used as you might expect. The book wraps up with lengthy responses to survey questions posed to the featured developers. Great Web Architecture is bound to capture the attention of aspiring designers and improve their techniques. --Stephen W. Plain

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Extreme Programming for Web Projects (The XP Series)

Extreme Programming for Web Projects shows how the Extreme Programming (XP) software development discipline can be adapted and applied to the Web-based project development process. This book demonstrates how the hallmarks of XP--continuous integration, short iterations, paired programming, automated testing, and extensive client involvement--are particularly well suited to the unique demands of Web-based development. Based on years of real-world experience, the book offers proven best practices that enable developers to deal efficiently and effectively with the challenges they face and, ultimately, to produce Web-based projects that meet and/or exceed customer expectations.

Readers will find information on vital topics such as:

• How the XP team approach enhances communication between Web technology and graphic design professionals
• How XP automated testing ensures a comprehensive approach to testing page layout, performance, and multiplatform operation
• How XP's continuous integration and short iterations serve the Web development team's need for flexibility
• How XP's emphasis on client involvement throughout the project improves oftentimes adversarial client relationships
• How XP can facilitate the difficult task of estimating the time and cost of project completion
• How XP functionality "stories" can be adapted for Web-based presentation stories
• How XML, XSLT, and Cascading Style Sheets can help sites remain flexible and maintainable
• How to use these guidelines for outstanding Web site design and coding techniques

As the Web industry continues to mature, there is a great need for methodologies that will ensure project quality as well as efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The fast-paced and flexible Extreme Programming methodology offers an excellent starting point for Web developers to improve their working processes and employ best practices.

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Developing Web based Applications with VB

Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0471085170
Paperback: 400 pages
Data: April 15, 2002
Format: PDF
Description: John Alexander and bestselling author Billy Hollis show programmers how to develop enterprise-level Web applications using Microsoft's popular programming language�Visual Basic.NET.
* Features the incomparable insights and programming know-how of two popular Microsoft insiders, arming developers with proven tips and workarounds to use in their own projects
* Provides step-by-step instruction for creating business Web applications using ASP.NET and VB.NET
* Companion Web site contains all the code for the sample application

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Building Scalable Web Sites

This comprehensive guide covers the design of software and hardware systems for web applications. Using scores of examples and leading-edge tips, it details proven methods for scaling web applications to millions of users. Topics include application architecture, development practices, technologies, Unicode, and general infrastructure work. Ideal for anyone ready to realize the cost and performance benefits available to web applications today.

Learn the tricks of the trade so you can build and architect applications that scale quickly--without all the high-priced headaches and service-level agreements associated with enterprise app servers and proprietary programming and database products. Culled from the experience of the Flickr.com lead developer, Building Scalable Web Sites offers techniques for creating fast sites that your visitors will find a pleasure to use.

Creating popular sites requires much more than fast hardware with lots of memory and hard drive space. It requires thinking about how to grow over time, how to make the same resources accessible to audiences with different expectations, and how to have a team of developers work on a site without creating new problems for visitors and for each other.

Presenting information to visitors from all over the world

• Integrating email with your web applications
• Planning hardware purchases and hosting options to have as much as you need without breaking your wallet
• Partitioning and distributing databases to support large datasets and simultaneous transactions
• Monitoring your applications to find and clear bottlenecks
• Providing services APIs and using services from other providers to increase your site's reach and capabilities

Whether you're starting a small web site with hopes of growing big or you already have a large system that needs maintenance, you'll find Building Scalable Web Sites to be a library of ideas for making things work.

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Bulletproofing Web Applications - Wiley Sons

From ParaSoft, industry leaders in software testing a nuts and bolts guide for effectively developing and testing large-scale Web sites for performance and reliability.

This end-to-end guide to building and testing highly reliable web sites is a must have for anyone involved in managing, developing, or deploying web applications and large scale web sites.

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Beginning Dreamweaver MX - Wrox

This outstanding team of authors shows you how easy it can be to create and maintain dynamic, powerful Web sites using Dreamweaver MX 2004. Our hands-on tutorials guide you step by step through building three complete Web sites: a personal site, a dynamic sports site complete with user preferences, and a configurable online catalog built from reusable components. Along the way, you will learn all the skills you need to work confidently with Dreamweaver MX 2004.

You will also learn about Dreamweaver MX 2004's built-in support for ASP, ASP.NET, JavaServer pages, and PHP, and ColdFusion MX programming languages.

What does this book cover?

In this book, you will learn how to

• Understand and manipulate the code Dreamweaver MX 2004 generates
• Create, implement, and modify Cascading Style Sheets
• Add dynamic effects with DHTML
• Apply authentication and authorization techniques to protect your sites from unauthorized users
• Store, retrieve, and display dynamic data
• Design your sites with a modular system
• Install and use Dreamweaver MX 2004 extensions

“…the quality of information provided is impeccable…” (PC Utilities, June 2004)

“…hands-on tutorials take readers through creating three complete Web sites….” (Mac World, May 2004)

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Advanced Web Sites Made Easy - Top Floor Publishing

This book is the first book on an exciting new product known as HTML/OS.

HTML/OS is exciting because it single-handedly eliminates the complexities of building advanced sites. HTML/OS includes a built-in database engine and simple Basic-like tags you type into HTML documents. Web pages that once took months to write without HTML/OS can now be written in hours. This book makes the development of advanced Web sites easier than ever.

This book is written for Web designers and developers, programmers, commercial product developers, and anyone who wants an advanced Web site. If you know some HTML and a bit of scripting you can use this book. Advanced Web Sites Made Easy guides you through the ins and outs of HTML/OS. It includes a thorough discussion of how HTML/OS works, over 100 examples of advanced Web pages (such as shopping carts, database search pages, e-mail merge programs, and login pages) and a 30-day free trial of HTML/OS pre-installed on the Web for every buyer of this book.

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Developing Effective Websites - Focal Press

Is your website project out of control?

Every website project needs a manager. Developing Effective Websites describes Internet technologies in plain language and helps you see beyond your expertise to the big picture. It does this by drawing on established software project and management principles.

Like any project, effective management of website development starts by understanding and balancing the constraints of time, resources, and tasks. You can deliver your project on time and on budget, by following a process that includes:

• Analyzing the requirements of users and your market
• Developing a workplan for the site and breaking it down to tasks
• Scheduling with Gantt and PERT charts and measuring slippage for more accurate revisions
• Estimating cost by the budget-first or design-first methods
• Using the team development process and covering all the necessary roles
• Aligning contractor and client interests to create a win-win relationship
• Following an iterative development process for designing, prototyping, and building out
• Applying software testing principles to website development
• Making hosting decisions and planning for maintenance

Practical techniques for managing a variety of projects from simple presentations to consumer web sites and applications (e-commerce, web-based training)

New chapters on web development tools & technologies and hosting options & solutions

Based on real-world experiences and current development techniques

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