Steve Muench

Web services have now officially outlived the initial wave of hype, and many corporate developers are in some phase of designing, building, testing, or deploying their first mission-critical services. While Web services offer a new way to expose your application functionality to programmatic clients on different platforms, it's no surprise that they are developed following the same process you use to deliver any high-quality software. This means the life cycle for developing Web services will start with good design and modeling, and include revision control, coding, debugging, and performance profiling, as well as both unit testing and system testing. Adopting a strong toolset that supports this complete Web services and application development life cycle will positively impact the success of your initial rollout and ongoing maintenance. Since virtually all valuabl... (more)