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XMLbroker: An XML-Based Web Integration Middleware Prototype for the J2EE Platform using
XMLbroker: An XML-Based Web Integration Middleware Prototype for the J2EE Platform using

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Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
  • Problem Origin and Statement
    • The State of Inter-Enterprise Integration
  • System Presentation
  • Core Technologies
    • The XML Meta-Language
    • WSDL
    • SOAP
  
  
• Requirements Analysis
  • Software Specifications
    • Software Configuration
    • The Hypertext Transfer Protocol
    • The Simple Object Access Protocol, 1.1
  • Requirement Formalisation
    • Common Use Cases
    • Server Subsystem Use Cases
    • Client Subsystem Use Cases
  • Mapping to an Object Model
  
  
• Software Architecture
  • Software Infrastructure
    • Operating Environment
    • Programming and Deployment Platform
  • Application architecture
    • Logical Structure
    • Components Taxonomy and Collaboration
  
  
• Elements of Design
  • Reflection as the Basis of Dynamic Proxies
  • The Interpretation of Service Interfaces
    • Parameter Passing Modes
    • Method Prototype Extension Scheme
  • HTTP Client Implementation
  • XML Parsing Stategy
    • The Simple API for XML
    • The Document Object Model
  • Design Patterns
    • The Singleton
    • The Template Method
  
  
• Implementation and other Engineering Considerations
  • Build Process and Runtime Initialisation
    • Build Process
    • Runtime Initialisation
  • Performance Considerations
    • Intrinsic Performance Issues
    • Extrinsic Performance Issues
  • Quality Assurance
    • Software-Oriented Quality: Refactoring
    • Functionality-Oriented Quality
    • Documentation Quality
  • Software Documentation
  
  
• Bibliography
• Demonstration Service and Application
  • Application Specification
  • Implementation
    • Service Definition
    • Service Implementation
    • Service Integration
  • Sample SOAP messages
  
  
• UML Artefacts