Textbook

The textbook for the class is:

Web Services: Concepts, Architectures and Applications
Gustavo Alonso, Fabio Casati, Harumi Kuno, and Vijay Machiraju
ISBN: 3-540-44008-9

Available at Amazon USA, Amazon UK, and Amazon Canada as well as the CU Bookstore.

In addition, this link shows a number of prices for this book across a wide range of on-line sellers. (Thanks to Luke Sankey for providing this link and pointing out that my original link was to the Amazon UK store!)

The book adopts a concepts-based approach to Web Services and provides a valuable historical perspective that reveals that Web services are simply an evolution of distributed information systems technology. To supplement the book's approach, we will also be reading articles with a more practical approach to presenting the technology behind Web services.