2 Developing Web Services Using CICS, WMQ, and WMB
1.1 Why we wrote this book
This book is intended to be of most use to the CICS Application Developer /
Architect who needs to see a practical demonstration of how to develop
applications that take advantage of CICS Web services facilities. This book can
be viewed as a follow-on from the IBM Redbooks publication Application
Development for CICS Web Services, SG24-7126-00, with the addition of using
modern tooling techniques. Because we are creating a new application, we
follow the bottom-up approach described in Application Development for CICS
Web Services, SG24-7126-00. Although not a requirement, we highly
recommend that you review that publication for a much deeper discussion of
CICS W