Integration-Ready Architecture and Design: Software Engineering with XML, Java, .NET, Wireless, Speech, and Knowledge Technologies

For IT and CIS students and educators, developers, managers, and experts. Written by a software architect and experienced trainer, the book strives for an integration of theory and practice. Bridging the gap for a new generation of wired and wireless software technologies, the book teaches a set of skills that are becoming extremely valuable today, and which will certainly be in high demand tomorrow. Providing deep insights into almost all areas of modern CIS and IT, this book gives readers entry into a new world of integrated knowledge and software engineering. The author discusses service-oriented architecture, ontology and natural user interface, collaborative engineering and the distributed knowledge of marketplace, offers new approaches to software architecture and development process. The text answers the "what's, why's and how's" of: J2EE, J2ME, JavaCard, .NET, JSAPI, JMS, JXTA, Jini, JMF, SALT, VoiceXML, WAP, 802.11, CDMA, GPRS, CycL, XML, and multiple XML-based technologies including RDF, DAML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, etc. The book turns these abbreviations into understandable concepts and examples