XML Web Services in the Organization

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Provides IS developers and architects with the information they need to understand why XML Web services will revolutionize and simplify the way they do business

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Concise, yet comprehensive.......2004-03-18

While most books on this subject target Web services in internet based commercial applications, this book targets the most quickly growing developer audience for XML Web services - the corporate solution developer.

Don't be fooled however, by its slim 190 pages. There is ample content in those pages, including a comprehensive section on securing Web services.

One feature of the book that is especially worth noting is the "extra credit" section located at the end of each chapter. These sections encourage the reader to take the concepts presented in the chapter and apply them to solve current problems in their corporation.

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Small to medium sized public organizations (SMPOs) share some of their e-Government requirements with their larger counterparts, such as the pending needs for interoperability, security and user friendliness. Additionally, they have some specific needs that are either unique in their context or more demanding due to their characteristics. These are cost and resources considerations, enhanced accessibility and greater scalability due to the larger number of citizens and businesses served and automated processing because of the restricted number of trained personnel. This paper first proposes an architecture for a secure e-Government platform based on Web Services, which addresses the above requirements. Secondly, a specific service is built upon the proposed platform, in which a municipality generates and securely delivers a digital birth certificate to a citizen or another municipality.

Service-Oriented Architecture Consulting for Professional Services Organizations Report: Facilitating the Service-Oriented Enterprise

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Today's professional services firms are struggling to find their long-term value proposition in environments that are in constant change. There is a significant opportunity for PSOs in the short-term for helping companies implement and adopt SOAs, and in the long-term for providing critical business process expertise.
As Service-oriented process tools mature, system integration will no longer be a separate activity, but will be subsumed into the process orchestration and choreography activities within the Service-oriented process tools.
The business process design, optimization, and execution consulting market will come to displace the system integration market.
System integrators will find the low-level integration work diminishing as their customers adopt SOAs, and therefore will need to transition their skills to the Service-oriented process arena to avoid having their market erode substantially.
There is a significant opportunity for consulting firms in the next five years for helping companies implement and adopt SOAs, and in the long-term for providing critical business process expertise.
Total SOA architectural and process consulting revenues will surpass those from system integration by 2006.
System integration revenue by professional services organizations will decrease by over 70% by 2010, while Service-Oriented Business Process consulting will increase 20-fold in the same time period.

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I. Report Scope
I. The Context for SOA Consulting
- 1.1. The Difference between Web Service and SOA engagements
- 1.2. SOA Practice Contexts
- 1.3. Meeting Customer Needs
- 1.4. Raising the Perception of Architecture
II. Conducting an SOA Engagement
- 2.1. Selling an SOA Engagement
- 2.2. Getting a Foot in the Door
- 2.3. Aspects of SOA Engagements
- 2.4. Technology Selection Considerations
III. Current State of the Market
- 3.1. Market Segmentation
- 3.2. Adoption Picture
- 3.3. Examples of SOA Engagements
IV. Market Trends. Opportunities and Risks
- 4.1. Compensation for the Standards Gap
- 4.2. Long-term Shifts in Demand
- 4.3. SOAs as the Key to the Real Time/On Demand Enterprise
V. Conclusions
- 5.1. Key Notes
- 5.2. Decision Points
- 5.3. Figures
- 5.4. Tables
VI. Profiled Professional Services Organizations
- 6.1. Small Architectural Consulting Firms
- 6.2. Small IT Consulting Firms
- 6.3. Midsize IT Consulting Firms
- 6.4. Large IT Consulting Firms
- 6.5. Small/Midsize Full-Service PSOs
- 6.6. Large Full-Service PSOs
- 6.7. Software Vendors

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Outrageous comedy on the human tragedy

Whacky, Funny, Irreverent and Heartfelt

A romp through the Vietnam War from the Gulf of Tonkin through Tet.

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Everybody knows War is Hell. Only the Few and the Proud know what fun Hell can be.Here it is, folks: "How the cow ate the cabbage" in the CLASSIFIED words of the President hisself [sic]. TOP SECRET stuff. EYES ONLY. If you want to know the real story (and you know you do)Nam-A-Rama is Catch 22 meets "Apocalypse Now." It's the wildest, wackiest, saddest and truest war story ever told, because it's all made-up, which means it's all real-from the oatmeal dropped on the VC (the Marines won't eat it) to the naked movie star parachuting into Hanoi; from the jarhead who calls in air strikes from a Bangkok brothel to the "Sky-Kyke" who fills out the Marine Corps' diversity quota; from the businessmen demanding a long inventory-reducing war to the Pentagon brass hoping for a glorious medal-worthy one; from the locals who'll do anything for a Yankee dollar to the grunts nobody ever asked and never will. It starts and ends, like all the best adventures, in the air. Almost-Captain Gearheardt and his buddy, Almost-Captain Armstrong, are ferrying bodies (live in, dead out) for the CIA's Air America, but they have never forgotten their TOP SECRET orders, given when Gearheardt was delivering pizzas to the Oval Office for the CIA: Chopper into Hanoi and buy Uncle Ho a beer. Then either shoot his ass or shake his hand (the instructions get vague at this point). And so they do, Semper Fi, pausing only to get an aircraft carrier black-flagged for bubonic plague, have an affair with Mickey Mouse, cleverly decode the message sewn into a lusty spy's black panties, commandeer a Russian truck complete with a midget Chinese 'Uncle Sam,' avenge themselves on a Cuban torturer, and dutifully experience all the Honor and Glory of the next-to-the-next-to-last war that never (God forbid) made the Nightly News.And they do it all for laughs. Because if they were to stop laughing, where would the heartache end?Phillip Jennings' unpredictable novel of Vietnam is an American classic in the making, a not-so-longing look at the absurdity of a war in which the damned and the innocent share the same hootch, the same Commander-in-Chief, and sometimes even the same body-bag. You won't stop laughing, or thinking.

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Outrageous comedy on the human tragedy.......2007-09-10

If you think you can't laugh about a major tragedy of real life history, you haven't read this novel. It's an irreverent satire on the series of tragic errors that led to America's involvement in Viet Nam and our mishandling of that involvement once we had it. The scenes in which LBJ and various top government officials make their disastrous decisions are highly over the top, but Jennings insists that exaggerated as they are, there is truth underlying all of them.

The central character of this satirical novel is a Marine as irreverent as Jennings' prose, who sees nothing amiss in pretending to accept a mission from the CIA so that he and his buddy, the narrator, can get drunk and get laid in an exotic locale. Like the narrator, we are constantly exhausted, amazed, and sent into gales of laughter at the antics of this irrepressible picaresque antihero.

Whacky, Funny, Irreverent and Heartfelt.......2007-03-09

This review is for the Forge Book hardcover first edition, March 2005, 332 pages. Nam-A-Rama is Phillip Jennings debut novel.

As the novel opens, Gerard Gearheardt and Jack Armstrong air in Laos flying for the CIA. They feel remorse. Once they were almost captains in the Marines flying helicopter missions in Viet Nam, but they were demoted to Air America because they failed to execute secret orders from the President of the United States, Larry Bob Jones, which would have ended the war. They decide to return to Hanoi and confront Wiffenpoof, the British a la Cuban spy who sabotaged their mission. The novel then plunges into the lampooning back story of their misadventures in Viet Nam.

Understand that Gearheardt, as an orphan, was inducted into the CIA at an early age and happened to be delivering Pizza to the Oval Office when President Larry Bob was planning the Viet Nam war. (At the time Gearheardt was also a first lieutenant in the Marines and a helicopter pilot.) Having planned the war, thinking ahead, Larry Bob decides to end it by parachuting Barbonella stark naked into Hanoi. He knows Ho Chi Minh has the hots for Barbonella, an antiwar movie sex goddess, and she can end the war with an assist from two helicopter pilots with an as yet undisclosed secret plan. Gearheardt accepts the mission, enlists his friend Jack and the story gets really wacky.

Phillip Jennings was a Marine helicopter pilot in Nam and he also flew for Air America. His story brutally lampoons the hierarchy that planned the war, but evokes deep respect for the soldiers who fought it. There are deadly serious passages from a guy who was there. It is whacky, funny, irreverent and heartfelt.

A romp through the Vietnam War from the Gulf of Tonkin through Tet........2007-02-19

While I do not read much fiction anymore, I do enjoy certain types of stories. This is a comic romp that is based in Vietnam (or Viet Nam, if you prefer) during the Johnson years, but it takes enough liberties with reality that the clear parody of Johnson is only referred to as President or Larry Bob. Nixon is called by name, but McNamara is referred to by his characteristic slicked back hair.

The story is told by Jack Armstrong (the character is well aware of the ironic use of his name) and tells the tale of his adventures with his friend Gearheardt (did that name start is Gearhead?). Gearheardt is a CIA pilot who was, at one time the CIA pizza delivery guy to the Whitehouse. He ends up, on a secret mission that will take place is some unspecified future with cloudy goals in Hanoi. Jack is a Marine helicopter pilot who befriends Gearheardt and they head off on their adventure together. One thing that you have to pay attention to is that the story is told by Armstrong and you have to wonder how he would know some of the things about Gearheardt. And you will also note that Gearheardt's reality gets awfully foggy at times.

While waiting for the signal that it is time to head north, they are involved in actual combat and rescue operations In Country that are told with breath taking clarity. The author, Philip Jennings, was much like Jack Armstrong in being a Marine helicopter pilot and doing work for Air America. I don't know if he actually knew guys like Gearheardt, but I am sure he did, because there were crazed heroes (hard to tell which at times) like him in higher quantity than one might suspect. Read any book on SOG or special forces operations in Vietnam and you will find the pages full of them.

This book has some tremendously funny scenes. One I can talk about without ruining the plot for you is a scene where a skipper is trying to synchronize watches for his team, but can't remember what his watch is synchronized with because he has a second watch synchronized with the artillery that is set to a slightly different time. It turns out that none of the other team members even bothered to bring their watch to the briefing.

Jennings writes wonderfully well. He writes adventure with sharpness and with great humor. In talking about night flying operations on a carrier Armstrong notes, "Baxter used to say the only good thing about night flying off the boat was that it gave him a chance to s**t his pants and not get teased about it." Note, that the language of the book is, well, frank. No asterisks to be found anywhere. And several, well, many scenes, involve bars with the kinds of inhabitants that one might expect that soldiers would seek out including women who don't bother with clothes for obvious reasons.

I loved this sentence, it captured the horror of the situation with the kind of detachment war demands, "A nice friendly kid who would later make the fatal mistake of flying a burning helicopter upside down with bullets in his body."

In another place, Jack says, "I hadn't had butterflies in my stomach for a long time, but when the choppers carrying the company that I was attached to fell toward the strike zone at 0730 the next morning, the butterflies were giant fanged bats fighting each other." Beautifully put.

The book has a pretty cynical view of the war overall, but not of the men who fought it. It involves the protagonists in bizarre situations that are either harrowing or delightfully nuts. The author shows us the ambiguity that seems to be the reality of life as a spy, and some of the awful things these folks suffer (as well as what they do).

I enjoyed this book a great deal. If you enjoy funny adventures with some bite to them, you will enjoy this, too.

Divine Humor.......2006-09-30

The dominant cultural tendency is to place satire squarely in the nihilistic genre. Since there is no meaning or purpose the only thing left for us to do is laugh.

I doubt that's what Jennings had in mind in writing Nam-A-Rama. I have no idea if Jennings is "religious," in the conventional sense or otherwise. But he has written a religious novel par excellence.

If there is one thing more deadening than the war itself, it is all the drivel that has been written about it that claims to have found the true meaning of the war, usually hidden in some heretofore secret document, or in the mindset of the primary decision-makers, or the fact that McCarthy had purged all of the experts on Communism from the Defense and State Departments (McNamara's personal excuse).

Jennings is not saying there is no hidden meaning. Only that it is not to be found on the psychiatrist's couch or in submitting to the conventional ideological pandering that takes place in academe and in most of the other textual post mortems on Vietnam. In particular, he has absolutely no use for the leftist crap that masquerades as moral high mindedness. No. Jennings' satire discloses that it does not require an evil conspiracy to cause a monumental screw-up. It only requires human nature, something which you and I share. And what is that nature, and the political reality that it spawns? We are actors in a play that we did not write in which the script is a phenomenology that is in a continuing state of approximation. And what kind of God would create a world of screw-ups that requires salvation? Only God knows, but Jennings has approximated the paradoxical answer: we are in no position to demand an answer. And therein lies the beginning of redemption.

A Surreal/Absurdist Vietnam War Joyride.......2006-01-06

Many reviewers seem to be a little too caught up in whether or not this Marine helicopter pilot's debut novel is a ripoff of, or homage to, Heller's classic Catch-22. While it certainly borrows some of the stylistic devices, and has a similar antic absurdist sensibility, it's way over the top in its own way and deserves to be read on its own merits. Sure, Catch-22 stands as such a towering achievement in the genre, but does that mean no anti-war novels should ever be written again? In any event, the book kicks off with probably the best first sentence I've read all year: "Gearheardt and I were having lunch next to a pile of dead Laotians when he came up with his scheme to redeem ourselves with the Marine Corps and settle the score with the Cubans." If that alone doesn't grab and interest you, move on to the next book on your reading pile.

The two antiheroes of the story are Marine helicopter pilot buddies Armstrong and Gearheardt. They embody two sides of the American psyche: Armstrong is the introspective one, always trying to understand why things need to be done and what the end result is supposed to be, while Gearheadt is the brash, crazy, testosterone addled, take action guy. Things commence when Armstrong is present (mistaken for a pizza delivery man) at the White House meeting in which a very, very LBJish president and the Joint Chiefs decide to cook up a war in Vietnam to boost the economy and poll ratings. The ongoing satirization of president "Larry Bob" is pretty rote stuff, and not so effective in our own time, when the president is a walking self-satire. Later, when it is realized that the war is out of control, the duo is taken from combat and tasked with a secret mission to either kill Ho Chi Minh or negotiate with him for peace. If that sounds bizarre, well, that's the kind of book it is. The story proceeds in picaresque fashion, as they make their way to Hanoi, and meet up with sex-kitten movie star Barbonella (standing in for Jane Fonda), whom the president has sent to help them.

It's a hard book to try and explain, since the story veers all over the place, including some vivid scenes of actual combat, a sergeant who may be about to kill the heroes, a bevy of hookers, military intelligence turf wars in the White House bathrooms, and a man code named Whiffenpoof who may be a British or Cuban spy (or both), a Mustang vs. Corvette car chase between Ho Chi Minh and General Giap, and heartfelt warmth to the soldiers who served. It's all pretty out of control and rollicking, populated entirely with outsize characters and tempered with levity-ending moments of awful combat violence. It's a schizophrenic sort of novel that kind of works in its own bizarre way but not really, the satire is sometimes not as focused as one might like, and the surrealism of it gets a bit out of hand. There are gems sprinkled throughout it, but it's best read by those with a taste for the absurd.

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