This book describes the lifecycle of activities for IT projects -design,

development, deployment and management. The concepts are peppered with

lessons learned from a real implementation of web services at Hewlett-Packard

with external business partners. Those who want to go beyond understanding

concepts and actually implement web services will find this book a great

reference. Special attention is given to topics one would encounter in large

enterprises -- business relevance, prototyping, methodologies, tying to existing

infrastructure, testing and manageability.