Business Developers

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a way of organizing software. If your company's development projects adhere to the principles of SOA, the outcome will be an inventory of modular units called "services," which allow for a quick response to change. This book tells the SOA story in a simple, straightforward manner that will help you understand not only the buzzwords and benefits, but also the technologies that underlie SOA: XML, WSDL, SOAP, XPath, BPEL, SCA, and SDO. And through it all, the authors provide business examples and illustrations, giving a practical meaning to abstract ideas. SOA for the Business Developer • Gives a detailed overview of Extensible Markup Language (XML), including namespaces and XML schema. • Describes Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) and SOAP, the standard SOA technologies. • Gives a clear tutorial on XML Path Language (XPath), a language for deriving data from transmitted messages and other sources. XPath is useful for working with a variety of other technologies, including several described in this book. • Gives comprehensive details on BPEL 2.0, a language that coordinates services and whose preceding version is already in numerous products. Our coverage is sufficient for most of your work with BPEL and includes a quick-reference guide. • Introduces Service Component Architecture (SCA), a proposed standard for composing and deploying applications. You're sure to hear more of SCA, which is sponsored by 18 companies, including IBM, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems. • Introduces Service Data Objects (SDO), a proposed standard for representing data in a single way, even if the data comes from different types of data sources. SDO is likely to accompany SCA into the limelight.

In JavaScript for the Business Developer, author Mike Faust builds the case for integrating JavaScript into business applications and then shows the application programmer how JavaScript can help them create dynamic business applications with Web browser interfaces. Developing compelling, user-friendly interfaces is one of the best arguments for using JavaScript when building business applications. Often, an application functions well and offers bulletproof reliability, but it has an awkward or outdated look and feel. JavaScript can easily modernize a GUI interface by making it more dynamic and interactive. Faust demonstrates techniques to add dynamic elements to applications so they look like they came right "out of the box." For example, JavaScript can be used to display information when a user's mouse hovers over a given field. It also can allow a user to customize elements of the interface-like color schemes, font styles, and even the location of information elements within the application. JavaScript for the Business Developer is specifically geared for programmers writing common business applications. Spend some time learning this new skill, and you can bring a more dynamic interface to your applications. Let this book be your guide to building powerful, interactive business applications. With JavaScript for the Business Developer you will: • Understand the benefits JavaScript can add to business applications • Learn techniques that will modernize application interfaces • Discover how to add function to applications, such as sorting data in a table with one click of the mouse or performing calculations on the fly • Enhance your career with skill in a new technology

Written by business developers for business developers, this book focuses on HTML for business applications. Using this guide, professional business programmers like you-even those with little or no HTML experience-will quickly acquire the knowledge and skills needed to develop and deploy robust, data-driven, Web-based interfaces for their business applications. HTML for the Business Developer isn't just another "HTML 101" book for the masses. It zeros in on those aspects of HTML that pertain specifically to the business environment and covers a wide range of technologies beyond simple HTML to show complete deployment of business applications using an HTML interface. It also explores the most common tools any business programmer needs to develop browser-based applications with enterprise data, such as JavaServer Pages, PHP, ASP.NET, CGI, and JavaScript. Business developers shouldn't have to sift through every last detail of HTML minutiae. Nor must they become an expert in every Web language "out there." HTML for the Business Developer is the business developer's guide to the essence of these technologies. Led by these two knowledgable and experienced authors, you will be able to develop and implement a complete browser-based business application in no time at all. With HTML for the Business Developer, you will: * Learn the HTML necessary to deploy robust, data-driven, Web-based business applications * Discover how other technologies interact with HTML to present enterprise data * Enlarge your skill set with not only HTML, but also JavaServer Pages, PHP, ASP.NET, CGI, and JavaScript * Understand all of the components required to develop and deploy business Web applications