Chapter 7. Deploying and Managing Web Services

 

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

 
 --Benjamin Franklin

Deployment- and management-related concerns, in practice, will circumscribe all the real-world operational issues currently facing those trying to use or offer production-grade Web services for enterprise-level applications. This, as the saying goes, is when the rubber really hits the asphalt when it comes to Web services, or when one quite literally has to start reconciling the hype with the hardware. The real problem here, to immediately cut to the chase, is that the dynamics surrounding Web services have been dramatically undermined by circumstances outside the scope of Web-services technology and industry.

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